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"It's hard to be a diamond...

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in a rhinestone world."  Dolly Parton From memes to bizarre social media captions, museums, like the most basic of us, are well known to jump on the band wagon and guiltlessly go for the likes. But can you really blame them? If you're able to get a massive response and put your name out there for even just a day, you would probably take it, right? While the US National Parks Service has an absolutely amazing PR team who can draw an instagram crowd with a terrible dad joke, most museums decide on different methods. View this post on Instagram Alligators can grow up to 15 feet...but most grow four. 🐊⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Hey, don’t look at us like that. The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is the largest reptile in North America. They live in freshwater wetlands in the southeastern United States. Alligators continue to grow throughout their lifetimes. Male American alligators average 8 to 10 feet long, while f

"I met a man who lives in Tennessee, and he was headin' for...

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Pennsylvania and some homemade pumpkin pie" - There's No Place Like Home So this blog was initially created on my own terms to recount my adventures in grad school, then it was turned into a graded blog that made up part of my grade in my digital lass, now, we're back to recounting my adventures while  simultaneously talking about classes because something tells me this semester is going to be one wacky ride! But for starters, I went home! Yes, I, Jessica Chernich, returned home to the lovely state of  Pennsylvania for the holidays for a much needed break from staring at a mid-19th century house and singing Civil War era songs.  Instead, I stared at 18th century houses and still sang Civil War Songs  Christmas Carols.  Shameless house photo It's a funny thing how you can simultaneously realize that you might not want to get nose deep in preservation but still scream out of a moving vehicle: "THAT IS A LOVELY GEORGIAN FARMHOUSE!"  At thi