Day TWO!

By Allison Brennan

Monday morning was an early wake up call. Somehow we all ended up at breakfast in the Plaza 900, which is a really nice buffet-style cafeteria. After breakfast we went to the Brady Commons building, which houses a small food court, a giant bookstore/convenience store where we all had photo IDs made, and downstairs a bowling alley and arcade (more about that later).

From Brady Commons we were whisked away on a very warm but informative campus tour. Personally I loved the new Rec. center and I didn’t have to be assured by our tour guides that it was the best in the nation, but they did anyway. We also ambled through the building that houses the admissions offices, through the Quad with the infamous columns, and eventually ended up at the Life Sciences center for our first seminar.

For the next couple of hours Dr. Freyermuth conducted a discussion on the ethics regarding scientific research, specifically cloning, in reference to the book The House of the Scorpion which most of us had the chance to read prior to camp. The discussion was heated and interesting, which I think brought us closer as a group even though we had dissimilar opinions.

Later in the afternoon we attended a short seminar called the Secrets of the Wildlife. We were introduced to the frequency transmitters that MU and the Missouri department of Conservation use to track wild animals. We also got to see some of the newest video technology that is being experimented with in regards to wild animal behavior.

After this we left from the dorm to tour the Mizzou basketball arena. We got a really close up look at the court, the locker rooms, the TEAM (which was practicing…), and pretty much everything else in that awesome building.

After the arena tour we went to dinner at the Plaza 900. Later the counselors took us back to Brady commons, to the bowling alley and arcade, which had been rented out for a few hours for our personal use. After getting beat in bowling, an alien-slaughtering arcade game, and pool by my suite-mate, several of us returned to the dorm.

Once everyone gathered, we were divided into groups and given a project, (which I will tell you more about later, because Ben is kicking me off the computer). So that was at 9:00 p.m. and now it’s 11:00 pm and nothing much has happened since. I’ll be back to write more tomorrow.