Steve Milcinovic at the Mendenhall Glacier
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Hi, my name is Steve Milcinovic and I am a student of Hiram College class of 2009. I am a biology and political science major and have had the opportunity to study in several different and unique environments. During my freshman year I gained a solid foundation and taking several classes in different fields to determine that majoring in political science and biology was what I wanted. During that first year I spent most of the year as a traditional college student living and taking classes on campus with the exception of a short trip with a history class to do research in Washington DC at the national archives. Going into my second year I applied and was accepted to do a study abroad program in the Galapagos Islands and the cloud forests of Ecuador for 3-weeks. That first experience was amazing and got me hooked on the idea of traveling and studying abroad. Latter that same year I took a plant systematics course where we studied plant classifications at the St. Louis botanical gardens and the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. That summer through our schools political science department’s contacts I spent 5 weeks in Ottawa interning for Mike Savage a liberal member of parliament from Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Nova Scotia. My junior year I returned to that office at Parliament and interned there again this time while I wrote my political science honors thesis on Quebec Nationalism and its influence on the Canadian federalist system. One week after returning from that experience I left on the trip of a life time – the Biomes of the world around the world trip to which this website has been devoted. Looking back on it all it is hard to comprehend all that I have done during my time at Hiram and to think I still have one more year during which I will be studying marine ecology at a field station in Florida and possibly even a fisheries class in Alaska.
Steve Milcinovic
milcinovicsa at hiram.edu
last updated 26 April 2008
Banner Photo by Mathew J. Wilson