All of us students have only been on this ship for just shy of a week, and we have already been exposed to an atmosphere overflowing with knowledge. Aside from all our professors, who are all in the tops of their professions, we have had the chance to meet with scholars and business professionals.
Dr. Kathy Thornton, an astronaut who went into space shortly after the 2 ½ year grounding of the shuttle program following the Challenger disaster, spoke with us about her mission in space. She spoke about how she got into NASA, how long her training was, the hardest parts of being an astronaut, and the life-changing experiencing of actually going to space. Following her presentation, she showed a 10 minute slide show presentation of her and the rest of her crew and spacecraft during training and during the mission. She was truly an inspiration and a brilliant woman to speak with.
Then, this morning, we had the opportunity to meet a former Semester at Sea Alumni from 1978. Scott Seamans, one of the 3 inventors of Crocs (those ugly shoes that secretly everybody owns but no one will admit to), showed up in our Global Studies class this morning to speak about economics and getting his product distributed worldwide. While a short presentation, we all got to meet with a very successful man whose company has sold hundreds of millions of shoes since they were introduced in 2002.
Semester at Sea was not kidding when they said we would be hearing from a lot of very successful people in the short time we spend on the Ship. I guess that’s why they call it “The Voyage of Discovery.”
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