The personal and professional website of Douglas Van Bossuyt
Evan and I went climbing last night for a little while. Geoff caught wind of the new rock wall and wanted photos. This these two poorly lit pictures from inside the newly remodeled Mc Alexander Field House.
This new rock wall is excellent. The back side is one big bouldering area. The installation of this rock wall doubled the number of people who can be simultaneously climbing at OSU.
School starts for me in another 20 minutes. This will probably be the last term I have a normal, fully-loaded schedule that includes academic coursework. While I am only taking two classes, my thesis work, applying for PhD programs, writing journal articles, and taking the GRE are keeping me quite busy.
In general, I really enjoy being busy and productive. However, the last month or so I’ve been so busy with working 60 to 80 hours a week on all of my academic work, I haven’t hardly had any time to go out and play. No SCUBA diving for almost a month. No motorcycle riding for several weeks. No mountain biking all summer! Not even rock climbing.
At least I updated my CV again. This time, I added in some information about a forthcoming journal article and a conference panel I sat on last year. I also included my membership in PADI and the American Academy for Underwater Science Standards (AAUSS). That reminds me… I really need to fill out my AAUSS logs for August and send them in soon.
