Hi. I'm the guy to the right there. And this is my science writing blog. I hate science text books, but I quite enjoy the dumbed down articles on science that I think we'll be writing in this class. Ok, dumbed down may be a bit strong. How about I call it "science writing for a general audience."
Anyway, I'm an English major in the Writing Option. I started this quest because I hated my job and I wanted to do something else and because I was a bit lost and have only been able to really find myself in words on a page. So here I am, a few semesters away from graduating but with a LOT left to learn to really be able to say "I have a degree in writing."
Science writing interests me because I like the idea of researching something I know nothing about, processing it and putting it into my own words. I see it as a sort of editing process and that also interests me - learning how to take others' ideas and give them shape and turn them into something a certain audience would like to read sounds like fun.
The kind of science that interests me includes meteorology, earth sciences and things such as that. I also like the idea of astronomy, but have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that space goes further than we can fathom. Infinity, if it exists, means that we cannot be alone in the universe, because there is no end to what is possible. I suppose that's where optimism comes from. Somewhere in the universe, my parallel universe, right now I'm blowing my own mind with this. Think about it.
