Agronomy Ambassador Blog

Although we are currently full swing in the school year I have found myself thinking, planning, and looking forward to this summer. The reason I am so excited for this summer to arrive is because I will be interning at Becks Hybrids. This has been an internship I’ve been anticipating for some time now. Most…

The Agronomy Department at Purdue offers several different jobs. I actually have two jobs! I am a Teaching Assistant (TA) for both the Soils Resource Center and the Crops Resource Center (CRC). In the SRC, I work about 14 hours a week where I tutor students in a lab setting to help with lab and…

I’M GOING TO IRELAND!  My freshman year here at Purdue I was a very eager student that wanted to get involved with everything I could get my hands on. I signed up for clubs, activities, and even a study abroad trip to Ireland. Of course COVID came crashing down just three days before I was…

We are nearing the end of the 2022 spring semester here at the great Purdue University. The weather is starting to warm up, the birds are chirping again, and the spirits of many have lifted. Refreshing, motivating, and tranquil are the words that come to mind when describing the current atmosphere. However, something is a…

The farther I get in my major, the more I realize how important a good foundation of data science knowledge is. In lab work and in courses I’ve been taking, I am needing to work with large amounts of data that cannot be easily managed by hand. This has required the ability to work with…

An agronomy ambassador at Purdue is selected after completing at least one semester of Agronomy at Purdue. There is an application and a short interview process to get selected to join the team. The main role of ambassadors include talking to perspective students and touring them around our department. There are also other events throughout…

With the cold winter weather that comes this time of year we are bound to have a couple snow storms. When that happens, you can find a large majority of campus headed to Slayter hill with literally anything and everything that one can use as a sled. While this is usually a lot of fun,…

For my last semester at Purdue I decided that I wanted to take some fun classes. I signed up for bowling and would highly recommend it to anyone. If you are a part of the class they offer you free bowling every day outside of class so you will have the opportunity to bowl quite…

Going to college 18 hours away from home was a part of Purdue that I was so excited about. Little did I fully understand what this meant; I would now have to navigate Purdue University in the winter. Now if the super low temperatures did not already scare this Southerner away, the amount of snow…