Are you interested in how marine (海洋的) ecosystems work? Do you want to know more about marine animals? Bowling Green State University (BGSU) has one of the few camps in the Midwest where high school students can explore life at sea!

·Field trips to locations around Northwest Ohio to examine marine life and environments

·Hands-on activities to practice specimen (标本) collection procedures

·Design and run an experiment in our research lab

·Behind-the-scene trip to the Toledo Zoo to learn about marine animals

·Meet professionals to learn what it means to be a marine scientist

The BGSU Marine Biology camp will offer both residential and non-residential options. The cost of the non-residential program is $850, with an additional $400 fee for the residential option. The total program cost covers room and board, all materials for labs and activities as well as transportation for field trips. A 10% discount is available for early admission.

·Letter of recommendation

·Complete the online form

·Complete responses to short-answer questions

Note: Answers to questions provided by anyone other than that applicant will disqualify the application.

·March 2, 2025 — To be considered for early admission. Applicants will be informed by March 14.

·April 25. 2025 — General Application Deadline.

Note: All spaces may fill after selection from the early admission deadline.

I have happy memories of trips to Europe, but my trip to Romania was unique. When I was there, it was like being in a “James Bond” movie. My husband was born there, but his family sent him to study in Italy. Before he left, his mother told him, “As long as I write in pencil, you don’t come back. When I write to you in pen, it’s safe to return.” She never wrote in pen.

So, like the boy in Vittorio De Sica’s film The Bicycle Thief, he lived a poor life in Italy. He applied to go to America, but was rejected. He was accepted by Canada, though, and he then took a train to San Francisco and stayed there illegally. He became a US citizen until we married.

Seven years later, he felt it was safe to visit Romania. He hadn’t seen his mother, two sisters, and two brothers since he was 16. When we reached Bucharest, his family were waiting outside his sister’s house to greet us. After lengthy hugging, kissing, and crying, his family also hugged me, the American wife with two kids.

Romania didn’t have many dry cleaners. Most homes had old-fashioned washing machines but no dryers, and it was a hot summer. My husband’s relatives didn’t want to risk dirtying their clothes. Their solution was simply startling: the women dined in only their underclothes. The men were shirtless. I, of course, having just met them, ate fully clothed. I washed my clothes by hand and hung them outdoors to dry.

On the last night of our three-week stay, we had a large family dinner. I was tired of washing my clothes. So I palled my dress over my head and placed it on the chair behind me. The table broke out in applause. Even with my poor Romanian, I understood that they were saying, “She’s part of our family now.”

Diving in the ocean, marine biologist Erika Woolsey has seen how coral reefs (珊瑚礁) are being damaged by climate change. It has made her decide to find a way to share her experience —including those who can’t easily explore the ocean.

Through her non-profit, The Hydrous, Woolsey is using virtual reality to bring the ocean to everyone. Scientists, filmmakers and divers are taking people on immersive (沉浸式的) virtual dives, attracting attention to reef damage and expecting action to protect our sea. About 25% of marine species depend on coral reefs. However, climate change, pollution and overfishing have done harm to around half the world’s shallow water coral reefs.

Twenty years of underwater exploration has given Woolsey a detailed understanding of the dangerous situations facing reefs. “I’ve seen this first-hand shift. Healthy colourful coral reefs become what look like the moonscape step by step,” Woolsey says.

It is through this experience that The Hydrous team set out to recreate with their award-winning film Immerse. Intended to watch with a VR headset, viewers join Woolsey for a nine-minute guided virtual div e on the coral reefs, immersed in a 360-degree underwater view.

They swim alongside sea turtles and sharks before witnessing the worsening of the reefs. The experience often brings out strong feelings. “As soon as people take off that headset and look me in the eye, they want to tell me a story about their ocean experience,” Woolsey says. “It’s that human connection to our ocean that will solve our ocean problems.”

Woolsey hopes advances in camera technology will allow her team to take more and more people to places in the ocean that are underexplored and places further away from human civilization. They are developing a virtual experience that will put the people in the role of a marine biologist, carrying out biodiversity surveys underwater, and even transporting the viewers to space to monitor global sea surface temperatures.

Happiness can come from your state of mind, your view on life, and your willingness to accept certain situations. How do you find happiness? 【小题1】.

You may be going through a difficult time, when being happy feels nearly impossible. 【小题2】. There is much you can do to achieve it. One thing you can do is to perform an act of kindness for someone else. Others’ appreciation can increase self-satisfaction.

Doing things that you are passionate about brings happiness. Maybe you love to read and would like to take a writing class to test out your skills. 【小题3】. However, it generates accom-plishment and allows you to escape from boring situations. What’s more, turning your passion into something that impacts others can make you feel even happier.

Meditation brings calm to your body and a sense of relaxation. If you have a smartphone, there are many free applications that you can download that will help you meditate. Or just find a quiet space, close your eyes, and try to clear your mind. 【小题4】.

Try writing down three different things that make you happy each day. Rereading them from time to time will be sure to bring a smile to your face. We tend to forget the little things in life that please us, but documenting those ordinary moments allows us to rediscover them.

I once worked in the remote but beautiful countryside. All farm work can, in my experience, _________ a person to develop a Spartan (斯巴达的) spirit.

From the age of eight, I had to contribute my share of _________ along with my parents and two elder brothers. On the hottest summer days when the air _________ flowed, I knelt in a paddy field (稻田) with my knees deep in mud. The bugs and worms in the water _________ into my skin, and the sun burned upon my arched back. Sweat _________ down; if a drop ran into the eyes, it would _________ tears. So I always kept my face as low as possible.

I told myself, “Be _________!” If my parents and brothers could go on taking it, so could I. _________ I pulled myself together and dragged myself forward. I learned not to be afraid of difficulties and the meaning of “you reap (收获) what you _________.”

”Judge a man not by his face, but by his __________," my mother used to say. The land is __________, as long as you are willing to work on it. When the wind blew and the rice plants moved like __________ in the sea, breathtakingly beautiful, a deep sense of satisfaction __________ in me.

Although later I went into academic research, I shall always remember what working in the paddy fields taught me: __________ your feet firmly on the ground, never give up and you will be __________.