Jennifer Griffin
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One of my hobbies is participating in interesting summer activities. Over
the past several years, I have done lots of things that I think were fun and
interesting. Some of them are listed below:
NSF Archaeological Program-- This program is sponsored by the
National Science Foundation and the Center for American
Archaeology (in Kampsville, IL). It is for high school students
who will be entering their junior or senior year. As part of the
program, I dug at a site for three weeks and worked in a geological
lab for another three weeks on a research project. Since the CAA
does not seem to have a web page, please let me know if you want
information on this program or about the CAA's other activities!
Kentucky Governor's Scholar Program-- Each year, around 800 of the top
students who are between their junior and senior years in high school
are selected to go to a college campus for 5 weeks and study topics
which are not generally taught at high schools. My major there was
Japanese. This program also allows the students to interact with other
students with similar interests.
Intern '94-- For the past 20-some years, the Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, has
sponsored an internship program. Students who have just completed high
school can intern in one of many different positions the summer before
they enter college. My internship was a musical one in the Office of
Public Programming in the National Museum of American History. The
competition for positions is fairly tough, but the experience is well
worth it! This experience was one of the best of my life.
The KIIS Program-- The Kentucky Institute of International
Studies offers college students (from Kentucky and elsewhere) the chance
to travel to Europe, Mexico, or Ecuador to live and take classes for several
weeks during the summer. I have gone on both the Mexico program (to Morelia
MX) and the Ecuador program (then to Cuenca, now to Quito). While on these
trips, I got to live with families, travel around the country, and take
classes in archaeology and Spanish.
Combined Caesarea Expeditions-- In 1997 I traveled to Israel to take part in a dig at the site of Caesarea. In addition to working at this interesting site, I had the opportunity to travel around much of Israel. Please take a look at my on-line photo album of pictures from my trip!
My junior year of college, I attended the University of Maryland on an exchange program called the National Student Exchange. This program allows students to pay tuition at their home schools but attend a different school. This lets the student attend a different school for a semester or a year without having to pay out of state tuition.
In 1998, I worked as a counselor at an all girls summer camp, Camp Rim Rock. I had a good time and got paid for it! What more can you ask? I'm now a lifeguard, too :) Well...*I* think it's pretty cool.
During the summer of 1999 I went to another archaeological field school-- this time with Arizona State University. We spent 6 weeks living in tents in the middle of nowhere and driving an hour to get even further into the middle of nowhere to dig. Yup! It was lots of fun! Now I'm an expert on pot lids and screening dirt in 50 mph winds :) I hope to get some photos up when I have a chance to scan them.
In 1998, I graduated from Morehead
State University in Kentucky with undergrad degrees in Spanish and history.
Now I am in graduate school at Tulane University in New Orleans. I am in a program to get a doctorate in anthropology, and I plan to specialize in some aspect of Latin American archaeology. Some of my RA hours were spent building the webpage for the Middle American Research Institute.
My boyfriend John (SanGoku from FIBS) and I are living in New Orleans now. For those of you who don't know, he and I met online on FIBS-- a backgammon server. We've been dating for over two and a half years. Click here to see a picture of us. We are the parents of a couple chinchillas-- Pika and Squirt. They are 1 year old and are littermate brothers. Pika is a beige chinchilla and Squirt is a standard gray. They are sweet little creatures, but don't much like the hot humid summers here.
FIBS (First Internet Backgammon Server)
This is my favorite hangout on the internet. There are usually at least 100 people logged
in to chat and to play backgammon. You can find me there as "intern".
For anyone who wants to know more about FIBS and the other backgammon resources on the internet,
check out the WWW Backgammon page.
And here are the obligatory links to my FIBS friends pages!
texan
regulator
This site is a lot of fun! It presents fictional murder cases complete with
plenty of clues for you to use to try to solve the case. Realistic interviews,
newspaper clippings, etc. make the cases seem very real. Check it out!
My sister, mom, and dad (Xerxes on FIBS)
Visit my little sister's (don't tell her I called her that!) home page!
From FIBS-- My online and real life sweetie (SanGoku on FIBS) and me
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