Seventeen & Maldusk: A Supernatural Soap Opera

I actually can't remember, at this point, whether teaching labs was required for graduate students or just an optional way to pay for schooling. It's been too long since I was a student. But I do remember that all the geology grad students were doing it. I can't remember anyone who wasn't. So we might have had a certain number of hours teaching required. I taught mostly entry level geology labs for non-geology students (general science requirement), and was the "school liaison" who set up educational geology programs for public grade schools, high schools, and adult visitors.

Dorm life and campus life were definitely a part of my college experience though. I met my best lifelong friend because we lived in the same dorm. And later, my husband, I also met living on campus.

Funny that you should mention the "looking like a movie" thing. I grew up in Alaska, which is technically part of the USA, but the main part of the US is so different from Alaska that when I was a kid most Hollywood movies seemed very foreign and alien to me, since none of them depicted anything like the world I was living in. Even if some movie was supposed be be set in Alaska, it was usually filmed somewhere else and still looked unfamiliar to me. And until almost adulthood, I never saw a real city. Cities in movies didn't seem real to me for the longest time.