Reply #7: way to go! from a fellow geographer ... [View All]

[Lisa]

I recently heard from a student I'd had almost 10 years ago. Amazingly, he still remembered a simulation game we did in my course (trying to negotiate pollution cutbacks for a hypothetical treaty on global warming ... this was prior to the Kyoto Protocol). He is now married to a college instructor, and apparently he pestered her so much about how much about how much he learned, while trying to represent the US side, that she decided to adopt a similar game for her course. Over the years, I've also heard that some former students have ended up working for various government and environmental agencies, dealing with the same topics we studied.

So who knows -- you might have started something! Maybe some of your students might decide to go into international diplomacy, as a result of this.