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Hi! My name is Ms. Paetznick!
I am currently a student (I have teachers and tests and homework just like you!) at the University of Rhode Island, studying Biology and Education. Why both? Why can't I just go into society with biology alone? Go and be a doctor or something? Well, I believe that the best way to help people is to help them learn how to learn. Science has always been a passion of mine, ever since I was little. My favorite toy was a plastic shark, I would get in trouble for keeping pet salamanders (that I would find outside of course) under my bed, and I would make rogue gardens of weeds under the back porch steps. Last summer, I worked at the entomology biocontrol lab (insect biological control) at URI, studying the endangered butterfly seen above (//Pieris napi//) and a particularly nasty weed known as swallow-wort (//Vincetoxicum sp.//) I can say in light of getting older that things haven't changed too much, the passion for everything living remains!