Competition Day!

Reppin'

In my opinion, the best part about the individual competition is that it's now over and we can move on to the team competition where I can contribute and my sillier ideas can be shot down when appropriate. But seriously, it wasn't great but it also wasn't a train wreck; more like a train derailment, like one where nobody dies, but you're seriously delayed on the way to your destination (in this metaphor, the destination is one where I'm not shamed and exiled from the field of soil science). Hopefully we'll get some kick-ass scores on our group sites tomorrow that will boost our overall score.

The tricky thing about the sites was that they weren't profiles we'd seen much of in practice. The vast majority of our practice pits were in agricultural fields, so of course all three of today's would be in forest. And I don't remember seeing any transition horizons during practice, so naturally at least two of three would have them (we didn't stay for the review of the third site because the emotional stress was just too much). And it totally makes sense to choose sites that have extremely narrow horizons when you're going to have approximately 80 people trying to get soil samples from them. Totally.