Class of 2004

Andrea Abelt

I became an ES major because I wanted to incorporate my concern and love of the environment into my education.

After graduation I am going to move to an undecided location and try to make enough money to support a dog or two and my cats.  Later in life I hope to do therapeutic massage for animals and make more money to support more creatures.

Jesse Batty

I became an Environmental Studies major because I love nature and being outside.  I plan on helping people to become more environmentally sustainable after college.

Ryan Burdge

I decided to become an ES major because it was well-suited to my interests. I was already doing Biology when I realized that ES was a better fit.  I really like the variety of coursework that it involves.  When combined with my biology courses, I fell like I have a well-rounded education about environmental issues.

After graduation I will be interning for the Bureau of Land Management in northeastern California.  It is a 5-month internship doing field work, focusing mainly on endangered plant communities.  I plan on going to graduate school fall 2005, most likely for Conservation Biology.

Liz Fitzgerald

I came to Macalester wanting to be an ES major.  I took an ecology class in high school and was really interested by it so I started looking for colleges that had environmentally focused majors.  Deciding on my second major was the hard part.

After graduation my current plans include moving to Eagan, working at PetSmart and coaching gymnastics in an environmentally focused way of course!

Chris Jandro

I became an ES major in order to give some social background to my biology major and to become more aware of the implications of what we do in our everyday lives.

After working off my student loans for a couple of years, I hope to attend Wolf Ridge and get a Masters degree in Environmental Education, and eventually become a high school biology and environmental studies professor, as well as possibly becoming an organic farmer in the summers.

Lindsey Lund

I am an ES major because of some of the amazing classes I took my first and second years at Mac.  My eyes were opened to so many serious global injustices, to which the environment is intimately tied.  My interests all intersected in ES, and I was able to incorporate an Anthropology core and two other minors (Spanish and Geography) into my Macalester experience.

After graduation I plan to stay in the Twin Cities for a while.  I will be doing GIS work for a small technology company in Eden Prairie and hopefully squeeze in some legal translation work and gardening!  Eventually I'd like to try working on an organic farm.

Ellie Morris

At this point it's hard to remember why I decided on Environmental Studies.  I had the idea coming into Mac and just stuck with it once I got here.  I suppose I decided on Environmental Studies because it seemed like a major that could really lead to beneficial practical application and with any luck it will!

Well, I have my whole life ahead of me and relatively little direction, so I have a lot of post-graduation plans at this point.  I would like to work in education, specifically urban environmental education, and education on food systems.  I am also looking into further degrees in applied anthropology focusing in public health, gender, and/or applied environmental anthropology.  I want to make films and be a farmer too, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.

Erin Rupp

I became an ES major because I liked the flexibility of the program.

After graduation I am moving to Minneapolis and hopefully working with urban agriculture issues, like community gardens and farmers' markets.  I think I'll go to graduate school and maybe teach.

Jenny Sumner

I decided to be an ES major partly because I love being outside and feel a connection to nature, and partly because I really just loved all the classes that happened to fall under the ES requirements; I suppose those two things are related.

In the future I intend to work with politics (to justify my political science major) and environmental issues.  The upcoming election should be a great time to enter into the fascinating world of issue based politics, but for the summer I'll be teaching at Dodge Nature Preschool, enjoying the warm weather and exploring with 3 to 5 year olds.

Daniel Ungier

I became an ES major because I think that we need to learn to understand the world from an ecological mindset, and that we cannot achieve a socially just world without developing ecological literacy first.  Being an ES major seemed like a good place to start.

After graduation, I hope to find a job where I can ride my bike to work.