Alexander Krogh-Grabbe '08
When I got to Connecticut College, I was so excited by all the academic opportunities that I flitted from one prospective major to another. I settled on philosophy, which allows me to learn how to think critically about all the diverse topics that interest me.
At the end of sophomore year, my lifelong environmental awareness was reawakened. I began reading a number of blogs that represent the new wave of environmentalism that is rippling through the hearts and minds of more and more of the world's citizens. I began to keep a blog of mine about my findings.
Through the College's funded internship program, I worked last summer at the Center for Ecological Technology (CET) in Western Massachusetts. I'm helping out with Home Energy Audits and EnergyStar certification for new homes, as well as marketing these and other CET programs. And, with my previous blogging experience, I decided to document my internship with a blog on the College's Web site.
The combination of my experience in green building programs at CET and the broad foundation of my liberal arts education have made numerous interesting paths available to me. I am starting to look into graduate programs in regional planning, environmental policy, architecture, and environmental engineering. After graduate school, my intention is to find work with an organization that is truly at the forefront of a solution to our environmental woes.