 My name is Marina Finnelli. I'm from Warrington, Virginia. Today I'm out here with the Smithsonian Mason School of Conservation, specifically the Wildlife and Ecology class. Today we are surveying wood turtles. Wood turtles are severely endangered in Virginia. So surveying them helps us to develop a conservation plan for them so that we can ensure that their species continues on. I am interested in biology and wildlife and human impact on wildlife. I live out here all semester, and we do several different kinds of field work and different kinds of experiments and data analysis. There is definitely a community out here. You create a bond with your classmates and with your hallmates that you would never experience in a normal dorm. Every day you meet with experts in the field. You work with experts in the field. I highly encourage anyone who's interested in ecology or wildlife to come out here instead of studying it on main campus, because out here is wildlife and out here is ecology. You are literally in the middle of the field that you're studying, and you can't get a more rich experience at any other college or through any other program other than Smithsonian.