by evansm | Aug 14, 2015 | Research Blog
Working at Antiochia and Cragum has been such a wonderful experience for me. Just being with a group of hard working peers and forming connections with the Turkish students who are just as hard working, interested in learning about the site, and have other outside...
by Ian Henley | Aug 14, 2015 | Research Blog
If anyone were to ask me to describe my experience in Turkey, the only phrase that immediately comes to mind, would be “breakneck.” From the very moment I arrived, up to me now writing this last blog in the relative comfort of my dust-ridden bed,...
by burkhart | Aug 14, 2015 | Research Blog
Let me start by saying that this class turns so much of what defines a typical college course on its head. Let me explain. Basically any given college course has an explicit, well-defined focus. If you decide to take an organic chemistry class, you know you’re going...
by brownmt | Aug 14, 2015 | Research Blog
So I have been sitting, staring at my computer for awhile now, struggling to come up with something to write about for this final blog post. I know that I have learned a lot and that I have changed as a person, but it is too soon and too close. I haven’t had a chance...
by mumfor1 | Aug 14, 2015 | Research Blog
A year ago, if someone told me that I would spend five weeks in Turkey excavating a Roman acropolis with a team of American students, I would have laughed in that person’s face. I never thought that would be me. When I was younger, I dreamed of being an archaeologist...
by Kit | Aug 13, 2015 | Research Blog
I began my first blog post with the confession that I’m not very good at processing change, and that up until the last minute, doing archaeology in Turkey felt entirely unreal—something that was going to happen to some other Catherine, not me. But for some reason,...
