How I got a semester’s worth of credits and didn’t set foot on campus for eight months

I need to let you all in on a little secret. I’m a travelaholic. At any given moment, my desk has more guidebooks than textbooks. I dream in maps and mountains and UNESCO world heritage sites. Dropping Introduction to Archaeology…

Education at its best: Limnology in Algonquin Park and ornithology in the Caribbean

I had always thought that my dream job (naive as it may sound) would involve being on-site somewhere,  perhaps with my afternoons spent deep in the archives of a foreign library, scrolling over the brittle vellum of a medieval manuscript;…