【正文】 t meet nearly many changes. Advisor: Sound like you got a real neck for this. Student: Yeah… anyway, I am glad you schedule this meeting because I want to change my major to journalism now. Advisor: Um， the university doesn39。t offer major in journalism. Student: Oh no… Advisor: But…. Student: I… I mean… should I transfer to another school, or major in English? Advisor: Er… wait a minute. Let me explain why the major isn?t offered. Editors at the newspaper… editors… um… I mean when you apply for a reporting job, editors look at the two things they want to see clips , you know, some of your published articles, though also want to try out, though give you an assignment like… covering a price of conferences some other event, then see if you can craft the story about it, accurately, on dead line. Student: So they don39。t it great to discover something that you really enjoy? And I read that the article too? It was very good. Student: To be honest, the articles got a lot of editing. In fact I barely recognized a couple of paragraphs. But the editor explained why the changes were made. I learned a lot and my second article didn39。t even to look at my major? Advisor: It is not that they don39。s sounds great! Student: Yeah… the first article I wrote it was profile of the chemistry professorthe one whose name teacher the year. My article ran on the front page. When I saw my name, I mean my byline in print, I was hooked . Now I know this is what I want to do be a reporter. Advisor: Isn39。t look at it… it is… well, having a degree in something other than journalism should actually work to your advantage. Student: How? Advisor: Most journalism specialized these days. They only write about science or business or technology for example. Is there a type of reporting you think you may like to specialize then? Student: Well… I think it can be really cool to cover the Supreme Court. I mean… their decision affects so many people. Advisor: That is really a goal worth striving for. So, why not continue major in political science? And as elective, you could take some PreLaw classes like Constitution Law, and as for you work on the student newspaper paper, maybe they let you cover some local court cases once that the student and professor here would want to read about. Student: Do you know of any？ Advisor: I do. Actually, there is case involving this puter software program that one of our professors wrote. The district courts decide in if the university entitle to any of our professors39。 the warm soil in turn affects the growth, the conditions of anisms there. And those anisms then affect the rate of deposition of the leaves. So a microclimate can be something so small and so easily to disturbed that even a tiny change can have a big impact. If someone on a hike knocks a couple of rocks over, they could be unwittingly destroying a microclimate that an animal or anism relies on. Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and his faculty adviser Advisor: Hi ， Steven I schedule this appointment, cause it has been a while since we touch this. Student: I know I have been really busy a friend of my works on a school a paper. He asks me if I would like to try to reporting so I did and I really love it. Advisor: Hey…that39。 profits? Student: Wah…. I will definitely f ollow upon that! Narrator: Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class. Professor: OK, last time we talked about ancient agricultural civilizations that observed the stars and then used those observations to keep track of the seasons. But today I want to talk about the importance of stars for early seafarers , about how the fixed patterns of stars were used as navigational aids. OK, you?ve all heard about the Vikings and their impressive navigation skills, but the seafaring people of the pacific islands, the Polynesians and the Micronesians, were quite possibly the world?s greatest navigators . Long before the development of, uh, advanced navigational tools in Europe, pacific islanders were travelling from New Zealand to Hawaii and back again, using nothing but the stars as their navigational instruments. Um, the key to the pacific islanders? success was probably their location near the equator. What that meant was that the sky could be partitioned , divided up, much more symmetrical