By Amanda Rugenski

A late start for the first post of 2018–I have no excuse. We arrived with 19 students (from 5 different schools or departments), 3 faculty, lots of luggage, and excitement all around. We started our first day with a naturalist hike on the trails around campus and orientation. I am impressed yet again with how great all the students get along and how much they are taking advantage of the campus- especially enjoying free time playing volleyball, basketball, and soccer. We hit the ground running with courses and travel and the students blog posts have been coming in and I will now try to stay on top of publishing them all. So far we have had a coffee tour, hiked into and out of San Gerardo Station (Children’s Eternal Rainforest), had a campus sustainability and farm tour, and now we are enjoying La Selva.