Hi, my name is Nicolina DiMascia and I’m at sophomore at UP. While at school, I live downtown at University Gateway. I’m from northeast Philadelphia and have lived there my whole life. I’m working towards an early childhood education pre-k to 4 major and spending an extra year here to get my special education certifications. I’m taking this course as one of the 3 economic geography courses I have to complete. I am taking geography 10 also this semester. I am hoping that these classes go hand in hand with one another and I can learn a lot from both of them. I’m a member of PSU club gymnastics and I also coach gymnastics off campus at Nittany Gymnastics Academy.

I took BiSci 3 which I think will help me to understand this course. What interested me was the page written about scale. It had a lot of information about globalization, which was a big topic in my class last semester. I also find it interesting that climate change can be local or global, but it all gets intertwined in the end. I’m excited to learn more each week in this class. There are many problems with our environment and it is important to become more educated on them.