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So my name is Marguerite White-Jeanneau and I am
an assistant professor here in the Natural Sciences department at Northern Essex,
and program coordinator for the laboratory science program.
This is my sixth year working here at Northern Essex Community College.
I did teach at New Hampshire Community Technical College and I was a high school
chemistry teacher before I went
back to graduate school. After high school
I thought I wanted to go into psychology. I got there my
freshman year and signed up for the intro to psychology
course, and signed up for an intro to astronomy course
actually. I did not like psychology at all.
I loved the sciences. I ended up switching my major to
environmental science, and I had to take chemistry --
and discovered there that I absolutely adored it.
The laboratory science program -- it was created to train students to be able to
get a job as a technician
working in the lab after two years here
their associates degree, so they can actually start working right away.
If you find that you're interested in
science, you love chemistry, you love biology,
then you might be a good fit for the lab science program.
Someone who is generally detail-oriented, when you're in the lab you're
working a lot of different equipment, a lot of different procedures,
you need to be able to follow those procedures well,
and take data with a certain amount of detail.
I try to definitely make broader connections.
In chemistry one of the things we do, we focus on very specific
interactions with that, and we have a very specific language associated
with it, but all of it can be related back to a broader scale
of what you will see going on in the world around you or
inside you, so I always try to make that connection
I think you can see it when you're sitting with a student and they're working
with something,
and they're struggling with it, and all of a sudden they just
they get it and you can see it in their eyes, you can
hear it in their voices when they say, "Oh! So then...this!"
And it's like, yes, that's it!
And they suddenly start see that connection. That feels awesome.
That feels great.