Hello,

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my name is John or JD and I'm currently finishing up my master's at Michigan

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State University. Um, in crop and soil science. I study, uh,

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particularly how you can integrate livestock into agricultural systems and what

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that does to your soils and subsequent cash crops. Um,

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I did my undergraduate environmental geology and then shortly after that I did a

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Peace Corps service in Zambia where I did aquaculture extension.

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So basically just teaching people how to fish farm, um,

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and a bunch of other things. Uh,

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on top of that I am very interested in just kind of like natural

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processes in the natural world overall.

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So I feel very comfortable teaching anything pertaining to biology or geology,

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soil science, agriculture or anything like that, especially, uh,

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any age including college or adult learners. Um,

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as for elementary or high school or middle school aged people,

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I feel comfortable teaching at any level of science, reading, writing, uh,

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math though probably up to pre-calc I might need a little bit of a refresher

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'cause I haven't done things by hand in a while. Um, so yeah,

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and just in general, I took a very winding path in my life and have kind of,

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you know,

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went from geology to peace corps to soil science to forestry and I've done, um,

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a lot of kind of odd jobs and weird things.

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So if you kind of want someone to just bounce off what you ideas for what you

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want out of your life and maybe how I can tailor my lesson planning to your

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wants and needs and goals and just kind of getting you an idea of where you want

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to be in life and maybe how we can get you there. Um,

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I really enjoy talking about things like that and trying to find, uh,

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different paths for people that may be, um, lesser known. Um,

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'cause ambi or the Peace Corps is definitely one of those things for me. Um,

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so yeah,

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feel free to reach out to me if you are a college level student looking for help

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in soil science, geology, or chemistry. Um, especially gen chem.

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I can do gen chem pretty well. Uh, and then, uh,

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basically any subject if you are, uh, elementary, middle school,

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high school age student,

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I can help with just about anything and I feel the strongest in helping with

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science, especially earth science and biology. Um,

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so I'm more than happy to take on students.

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Let me know what you need from me and I hope to hear from you soon.

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