Mikaela BaratkaSenior Ecology & Evolution and pre-PhD student I’m not someone for self-promotion, in fact I would rather hear about what cool projects my peers are working on instead of talking about my own. That being said, I want to share with you a project I started this past summer and am incredibly proud of.
Before I share my project with you, I think it’s important that you know a little about me. I am an Ecology and Evolution major, and as such, I am a massive animal lover. One of the things that drew me to E&E was the fact that I always questioned how the world works and how it has come to be that we have the diversity we see today. I have always enjoyed learning about odd animals and whatever research projects, or conservation efforts surround them. But as I’ve learned about these obscure or endangered animals, I realized some of them that are the most at-risk are largely overlooked by the public. So, I decided to do something about it, and I started a podcast. Yes, I decided that I did not have enough on my plate entering my last year of undergrad despite doing research, being a UTA and peer advisor, and having leadership in my fraternity, and I started a podcast that I write, record, edit, and promote all by myself! My podcast, called the A to Z Animal Podcast, goes through the alphabet, one letter at a time, highlighting a rare, endangered, and obscure animal in an attempt to spread my love of wildlife and raise awareness about species that people tend to ignore. My little show may not change the world, but in the few months I have been working on it, it has changed my life. I am learning that it is okay to share my hard work and be proud of it. I am learning how to communicate more efficiently and learn for the sake of learning and not because I had to research something for a class. If you want to listen to my podcast, check it out at theatozanimalpodcast.com, you can find all the episodes and links to the show’s social media there. And if weird animals aren’t your thing, that’s okay too. If you take anything away from this blog, it’s to pursue your passions, and sometimes it’s totally fine to be proud of your work and share it with the world.
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