Samm Miller - UR Introduction.

My little brother and I at Uncle Dale's lake!

Hello! My name is Samantha Miller. I am a 22-year old, majoring in Marine Biology here at DSC. I decided to take on Marine Biology after my first year of college, after deciding that Graphic Design was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It came to me while watching a Blue Planet special; when I didn't want to be a singer, I wanted to be an oceanographer! But I was always skeptical about getting into marine biology (I was never really good at science). And after my first year of college, I had lost myself, both academically and mentally. It took another year of telling myself that I COULD do it before I took my first class at DSC. And now, as every semester goes by, I am more and more sure that this is what I want to do with my life. To be near the ocean, or a river, or a lake, studying the organisms that live in our waters. I have never felt so sure about anything else in my life!

I signed up for this course to push myself. This will probably be one of the hardest class I take here at DSC. Not just because of the research project, but even the field work. I still have many mental blocks that I must break before I can uncover my true potential, and I hope that this course helps me break them, one by one, as I continue to discover the amazing world in our waters!