A MIRM

What's a MIRM?

A MIRM is short for Master in Integrated Resource Management.

That is what I have just started, last Monday. The first module, comprising three lectures a week involving different speakers, is called Science of the Environment. It involves various topics on the physical environment, soils and agriculture, weather and climate and well as some environment chemistry.

The first bombshell was dropped on the first day, we need to prepare two one-hour seminars on various topics on the physical environment. All of us chose, democratically, our most suitable topics. I took Origin and Structure of the Earth as well as Igneous and Metamorphic rocks. I am sure there are loads of papers out there which I can consult and prepare these lectures. My worry is at Masters Level, I really have to delve deep into the subject, get the technicalities out. This might come as a cost since understanding technicalities is also always easy. Plus this is and Integrated degree, thus we always have to look at the wider picture, and combining, analysis different aspects and what are the resultant results.

It sure is a challenge which I hope will help me get rid of my constant writers' block that I suffer from, as well as tickling my brain into to think, possibly in a critical way too.