Posts by christina.mcguire


What made you decide to be a geography major? I decided to become a Geography major because I like picture books. As a kid, I really disliked flipping through wordy books to find the pictures, so I preferred an atlas mostly because it was easy to understand, visually interesting, and gave my imagination a world size sandbox to explore. What has been your favorite course so far? My favorite course so far has been GEOG 176C GIS Design...

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We caught up with Andrew Fricker to see what he has been up to since receiving his B.S. in Geography in 2005. Photo courtesy of Andrew Fricker Why did you major in geography? What year did you get your undergrad? I was originally a biology major, and organic chemistry was really hard and frankly a little uninteresting.  A friend of mine recommended Geography 3A/B with Carl Sundbeck and I took both of these classes and loved them. ...

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