By Raven Yankee (COMM ’17) Friday trips out of the classroom have become an expected part of the Global Environmental Earth Science (SCI 155) course. On April 8th, my class hopped on the metro and took the green line to the Insectarium and Botanical Garden here in Montreal. We started off in the Insectarium which […]
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By Nathaniel Crumlich In the heart of Montreal is a botanical oasis that one might not expect to see in any given major city, let alone one this far north. Of course, the Montreal Botanical Gardens and Insectarium are no mystery to those of us who have been living in the city for even this […]
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By Hannah Cartmel For 23 years, Montreal’s Botanical Gardens have put on an annual light show during the months of September and October. The preparations for this highly anticipated event last all year round; once the team has decided on a theme they send their designs to China where, from December onwards, hundreds of lanterns […]
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There are few things more terrible than a pop quiz, or rising college tuition, or — well there are more than a few things worse than those. One of them, at least to me, is insects. More specifically, voluntarily agreeing to go to a place that has insects (and plants, but those aren’t scary), to look at and examine them in the name of science. Continue reading
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We started our SCI 155 lab excursion on Friday morning by walking through the Olympic Park, which is interesting on its own because of how massive it is. I think that it would be really cool to try to get into one of these buildings just to see their internal structure. Continue reading
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Today (April 3, 2013), I went with my Ecological Science class on one of the best adventures I have been on so far in Montreal. We went to the Biodômeto see the special butterfly exhibit. Continue reading