Personal Narrative: The Miami Summer Scholars Program

This past summer I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Miami Summer Scholars Program for the second year in a row. I had high hopes going leading into the program this summer and Miami didn't disappoint. Once again I had a great time at Miami, my time there this year was even better than last year's experience. The program didn't change much this summer,the basics of the program were still the same. We had the workshops in the evening again, my favorite one was the leadership workshop. We had families again, my family this year though wasn't as close as mine from last year but we did have have some great times together. The activities were the same, we had the broomball and dodgeball tournaments again. Although there were a some changes made, we stayed in extremely newer and nicer dorms this year, we didn't do module collaborations this year, we had some rule changes, and the biggest difference was we had more time to ourselves, making us feel more like college students. …show more content…
It was an anthropology and history class but it also had some archaeology in it. I really liked the class, we did a lot of fun different things, we used a 3-D printer to make replicas of ancient statues, did a mock archaeology dig, we went through history learning how civilizations evolved and came to be, and we studied skeletons. The professor was Dr. Jeb Card, he made class extremely fun, I liked his teaching style we learned of a PowerPoint each day but we would also do something interactive or watch a documentary. The most fascinating, thing we learned about was Great Zimbabwe, a ruined city that Africans built but Europeans doubted that because they thought that Africans were incapable of such