00:00:05:10 - 00:00:31:16 Unknown It's one of the first graduate programs in environmental management in the United States. The students are coming from kind of a wide range of backgrounds, and that really enriches the class experience because they can they can bring different stories, different perspectives to bear on the topic that we're covering in class. I like the fact that that you get to choose your own classes and your own concentration. 00:00:32:15 - 00:00:54:05 Unknown I like learning a little bit of everything, so I like climate mitigation. I like toxicology, but I also like engineering. Students who come in who want to get more of a policy focus can do that. Students who want more of a biology ecology focus can do that. But it's also nice for students who aren't quite sure what they want to do because they can take a variety of courses and see what interests them most. 00:00:54:13 - 00:01:15:05 Unknown I have about ten years of experience in the industry and I find that every class has some kind of link to Oh yeah, I'm handling a situation like that that is directly linked to my economics problem set. So it's really fun and exciting when it's applied like that to the real world. So my favorite thing about the program at USF has been the accessibility of professors and the class size. 00:01:15:05 - 00:01:35:09 Unknown They're small enough, so you get to network with everybody and you get to talk at a more personal level. The faculty are great. They are very accessible by email, by phone. They really try to work with your schedule. We get to see students for a long time each each day we meet. So there's opportunity to build a relationship there. In the program, 00:01:35:09 - 00:02:01:09 Unknown I've definitely met some great advisors and professors that have connections in the field, and I've been approached by a couple for job opportunities. There's a mix of our full time faculty with a more academic approach, and the really working professionals who teach in the program, who are come from a wide range of agencies and consulting firms and bring really hands on current day to day experience. 00:02:01:09 - 00:02:30:14 Unknown We have a senior manager in the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission who teaches a course on water policy. We have a section chief from EPA Region nine who teaches courses on emergency management. The M.S.C.M Program is geared to working professionals, and if it wasn't, I wouldn't be able to to go to grad school. A majority of the courses that I took while in the Master's program allowed us to go on different field trips. 00:02:31:22 - 00:02:55:08 Unknown Restoration, ecology and wetland ecology both were really eye opening because you can learn about it, but then you can also see your applied knowledge at work when you visit these wetland sites. I have a passion for water and I feel like this program is the tools that I need to face, the problems that we're going to see in the sector in the future. 00:02:55:09 - 00:03:16:03 Unknown For example, I'm learning about climate change and how that's going to affect the water sector. My what I plan for my master project is to look at what integrated water management as the scarcity and droughts increase in California. I want to make sure that we have appropriate supplies in the future for future generations. The colleagues that I've interacted with are amazing. 00:03:16:03 - 00:03:30:12 Unknown Not only are we like minded, but we just have a lot of fun together. I have the day to day experience. It's really fun and my job at the Intellectual is a little missing. I thought it would be the best program to help me choose what I want to do in the future.