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good-night-space-kid · 2 years ago

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I’ve been offered the internship I really wanted <3

I moved to North Dakota kind of on a whim with the dream of being a paleontologist, but this position puts me actually in the paleontology collections (literally my dream job long term) so like. Damn. I guess I’m doing this. I might be able to actually become a paleontologist for real.

#I’m so excited I honestly didn’t dare anticipate getting this position but I really wanted it #I moved to North Dakota so I could work with the dinosaurs and I’m fucking doing it y’all #well. okay. technically I get to work with them to decide what formation and type of fossil I will work with #and if it’s an option I will probably choose Pierre shale marine invertebrates #because god i fucking love ammonites #but in theory I could choose to do dinosaurs #I just. don’t know shit about vertebrate skeletons #but invertebrates are so cool and I love them but other people don’t love them as much #so it might be useful for them to have somebody who wants to focus on them #I’m just very excited because this feels like a step in the right direction and if this goes well my chances of getting into grad school go #way up as well #except I think I want to focus on the actual history part of museum studies in grad #more diverse education background would set me up for more diverse plausible hiring options right out of school #also I love history I would totally be a history major if I didn’t also love geology and want the stability

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