Programs Blog

August 5, 2025

Tuesday started the same way with any other day in the program: a fend-for-yourself breakfast, chores done by the watch group, and the start of the lecture at 9am. In the morning lecture we went to the beach with professor Mark Long, where he gave us an interesting lecture on how the beach transformed from a place for work to a place for leisure. In short, the beach used to be a working place for hunters, and in the western point of view, the ocean was unknown and terrifying. Nobody would like to swim in the sea for leisure. The whole thing changed when doctors started to prescribe patients a certain amount of time on the beach. This stimulated the building of hotels and special bathrooms for keeping people safe from the ocean while they are following the prescription they got. As the economy thrived near the beach, people started to hang out on the beach for leisure purposes.

After a tortilla for lunch, the afternoon was spent working on our Oceanography and Ocean & Society projects. We got into our groups and picked some preferred spots for work. Dinner was Greek gyros with turkey. I was steward and I prepared the turkey that goes inside the gyro. After dinner, we drove to Falmouth and bought some ice cream. It was a great and busy day.

-Sideris Lou