Farewell, Montana
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2013
- My sincerest thanks to Dave Dyer for giving me the opportunity to volunteer in the UMZM: without your initial support and encouragement, none of this would have been possible.
My deepest gratitude goes to Hank Green for seeing the potential and making The Brain Scoop a reality.
Thank you, Heather Hsu; without you the next chapter in my adventure would forever remain unwritten.
I thank The Field Museum for their continued support in the production of The Brain Scoop, and am so looking forward to becoming a part of their team!
And - from the bottom of my heart - thank you to everyone who has watched, liked, shared and commented: this would not have happened without you.
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Thank you to Martina Šafusová, Deanna Mavis, Gerda van Mierlo, Ada Häggkvist Aarvåg, Filipe Valcovo, Katerina Idrik, Catherine Côté, Tony Chu, Mariano Cepeda, Stella von Randow, Nur Iskandar Bin Nuruddin, and Seth Bergenholtz for providing transcriptions for this video!
This is my favorite episode of The Brain Scoop.
I've been asked to return to UM and give a lecture on my museum experiences, this program, and the future of it all. This video captured the last time I was in that collection, my exact moment of departure, and I cannot wait until March when I get to go see it again after being away nearly 2 years.
It does and it doesn't seem that long ago.
Thanks for treating us to your moment.
Cruel lesson is that you may be one with the museum, the exhibits, the people, and you have a caring and loyalty to them. Unfortunately, the museum...the business entity itself...does not have the same feelings back to you.
So, appreciate the feelings that you have. Share them. And take them without reservation to wherever you want to go.
I started watching The Brain Scoop a couple days ago and it definitely shows how much you care for UM and its collection. It didn't came across as small because you filled it with life. This episode pulled the curtains back, first slowly, and then dramatically, and it's heartbreaking, but a fantastic means to show how underfunded and under-utilized it is. I hope things have been at least maintained and look forward to catching up in time for your March update.
I was just rewatching this one and wondering if you still missed it from your beautiful and well kept museum out in Chicago... It seems like apples v oranges.
Keep us posted! Would love to hear how the collection is doing :)
I'm not even kidding, have you thought about submitting this in the short film category at film festivals?
Mr. Aranda did a great job capturing Emily's transition to a place where she would see her passion and effort met with similar enthusiasm.
I may or may not have cried a little.
(1:25) "…I just feel like I've fought so hard, and it hasn't gotten me anywhere with expanding our space or getting more funding." It seems to be a sad commentary on our entire generation that hard work fails to generate success, but I'm glad that you have found a new place, and I look forward to watching more Brain Scoop.
What really inspires me is that Emily was a late bloomer, and that she became so passionate and an active advocate to the public about the beauty and coolness of museums. Thank you. When I go to the Field Museum, I hope I run into you or the people that you have shown in the video to thank you guys.
I was rewatching this video and was really curious as to what happened to the museum after Emily left it, so I took to google and found the website for the museum. On the staff page, Emily is still listed as an intern. It deeply saddens me to know that the museum has been left in such uninterested hands, and seems to be so forgotten that they haven't even updated the website in 3 years.
She isn't listed anymore now. Perhaps they read your comment :)
I am 54 years old {in 2015}, male, and I got a bit 'choked up' over a stuffed raccoon....
I don't know how she kept it together. I almost couldn't.
I'm so glad you got to take the racoon. Such a bittersweet episode ♥
+Lizzie Fleck You are the Chief Curiosity Correspondent. What a GREAT job title! It sounds like you literally just get to be curious and encourage the curiosity of others for a living!
I love that title more than anything
"Chief Curiosity Correspondent"
i've only just started watching this series, but i found this one really touching. also, i can't help thinking of the embarrassment of riches poured into sport programs while things that actually matter languish away in forgotten basements
This is probably my favorite Brain Scoop video. There is something so special about working in a small collection. You remember the first day you stumbled into it, clueless and impressed and overwhelmed, and yet in a few years' time you unexpectedly find yourself having become one of the experts - knowing every nook and cranny of the collection, the how-to's and the make-do's - with so many crazy and wonderful and horrible stories about it and the time you've spent in there! Nobody else, or very few others, care about or know the collection quite as well as you do, and it's so hard leaving it behind, not knowing what is to happen to all those carefully curated objects. I had an herbarium I had to leave behind once. I'm ecstatic that The Brain Scoop was recognized as a gem that could benefit an even bigger audience by moving to Chicago... but I love that it started because of one person's discovery of and devotion to a small, obscure, but no less valuable, collection. :)
I can't stop crying.
Emily, you're my favorite. I'll miss the Wright Zoological Museum, and I hope it lives on and continues to inspire.
I only discovered this channel a few weeks ago and stumbled onto this video. I did not realize Emily was from Montana and assumed that she always worked in the Field Museum. So learning that she knew Michael and Hank, and that she didn't even major in a science field was surprising, to say the least. The sheer juxtaposition between the latest episodes in the Field Museum and this episode with her saying goodbye to this humble collection is nothing less than awe-inspiring.
This video was incredibly bittersweet. Emily looked so crestfallen saying goodbye to the university's collection, unknowing what its future would be, if it even had one. But now, in the Field Museum, Emily is so happy. Her curiosity has pushed her into history with the new butterfly species.
Seeing someone like Emily, someone who didn't even think she was cut out for science, be passionate about it and continues to fight for its preservation is reassuring, especially with how tumultuous the world is now.
Keep doing you, Emily. Keep doing you.
My very first job out of high school was at The Franklin Institute Science Museum. The floor staff was almost entirely made up of college students, many on work/study programs. Two months after I left they fired the entire floor staff and replaced them with untrained retired volunteers subsidized by government grant. Exchanging an opportunity to expose young minds to the joy of teaching science for a few dollars was a despicable crime. Their attitude towards science was made even clearer when they destroyed a large research library of primary source material, some of which went back as far as the 1820's, to make room for an IMAX theater and a couple of restaurants. A ghost of its former self, it has become totally dependent on income generated by traveling exhibitions created by other museums that are now out of its league. A sad comment on a what was one of America's first and best science museums.
My Girl Scout troop did a sleepover thing there two or three years ago. I've always been a STEM girl, so I noticed that there just wasn't a lot of actual science there.
Alanna R. I actually worked the _very first_ sleepover back in the '70s. I hope you had a clear night. It was so much fun showing the kids Jupiter and its moons back then.
We didn't even get to do the astronomy stuff. We walked around for a bit, and went to sleep. That sounds like it would have been awesome, though!
I remember going to the Franklin Institute for school trips (it seemed like every year was the Franklin Institute). That was more than 20 years ago. How sad.
I just started watching the Brain Scoop and this episode touched my heart. If I had any real money, I know what I'd want to do with it - supporting the sciences. In the end, the best way is to make sure our government support the STEM fields and institutions.
This nearly made me cry.
After this show got some publicity from decidedly NON-scientific things I decided to check it out and started watching from the start. After all of these episodes a certain kinship is felt and seeing Emily leave her cozy little museum and volunteer job that borders on full time hobby to move up to working in one of the largest Nat History museums in the world... It's an incredibly inspiring story.
Watching her walk through the museum at the end and realizing the magnitude of this change is truly awesome.
SO MANY FEELINGS
such a beautifully shot video. :)
I wish these specimens could have been transferred to the Chicago museum as well instead of left in the basement. :(
Emily, you are WAY more than "normal"! You're a marvelous, intelligent, charming young woman. Hang in there, lady, your life is going to be wonderful.
i really hope someone has been taking care of that museum with as much passion and care as she did
I love how gentle Michael's voice was every time he asked a question. I know it's already been 3 years and I came super late to the party, but man did I break down at the end. I'm glad to see you're doing well in Chicago, Emily :)
I've seen this episode before and I'm just now returning to it after bingewatching a bunch of older dissections... and I'm emotional, I'm actually crying. So proud of Emily for coming this far and getting this amazing opportunity.
Emily has such a great level of passion and love for what she does. I wish I could be just like that with whatever fate will hold in store for me in the future.
An amazing tribute of passion and purpose!
For someone just starting out in college for a degree in science, this video showed me that scientific careers are hard, unpredictable, sometimes discouraging, but still worth it. A love for science makes all that worth it, and, hopefully, helps lead us to a point of redemption. Thanks, Emily
This video still makes me tear up, just a tiny bit. It's kinda reminiscent of so many transitions.
Dangit all, this made me cry at the end. (I know, old video, but working my way through the playlist...)
i watched it again... it is always the same feeling.
The level of feels. Man, life goes on and our squishy biological machines keep going.
**trying not to cry**
**trying not to cry**
Oh, no, there go the tears.
On the youtube home page, this video randomly came into my mind. I cried.
3 Seconds in and I'm already crying. Awesome.
I think this video is so touching :)
I think everyone has their "museum" they find hard to leave.
For me it was leaving the Navy after four years.
Most important thing is to have that "museum " in your heart and never forget it :)
Thanks Emily!
I want to find "my museum". I am so clouded, right now, I'm taking Masters in Atmospheric Science and I honestly don't like it. I am not happy, I can't get any funds for my research..I want to find somewhere where I can put my heart on wholeheartedly no matter how far it is from my major. This has been going on for almost 2 years. I need "my museum" by that I mean like what Emily found when she started as an intern. I wanna find that, and stay there, grow there. Sorry for this long comment. Emily, you're awesome!
Karen Conda best of luck luf
Clouded - atmospheric
Good word choice.
You know. You're the goal. To find that passion. The thing you willing to wake up everyday and go to, for no pay, and work for hours. Just cause you love it so much. This channel is amazing and you are amazing.
Watching this so much later, and I teared up. I hate it when science and knowledge disintegrates because no one values it, no one is willing to pay 😭
Congrats on the new position. Sad to see all those samples and such in that storage and state, very sad.
Aw your video made me so sad.. about all the fish in the basement and your little racoon and the leaving..
I partly grew up in a university natural history museum, where my grandfather once served as curator. In the days where there was no money, it was his labor of love when he wasn't busy being a mathematics professor. The Field Museum holds an incredible collection, and your enthusiasm for all it contains will never lessen your contribution to the UMZM. You've given me a new appreciation for my grandfather's work. Best wishes to you in this incredible new adventure.
Baby you got ball and I got RESPECT for you. I am currently going through a fighting phase myself and seeing you letting your hopes take you really helps me when I am particularly morose. So thank you, Next Stop, London.
I CRY WHEN I GET TO THE CREDITS
"I CAN do science! I can do SCIENCE! Science is a thing that I like!"
I need this as a shirt
HEATHER HSU! Thank you for funding The Brain Scoop thus far! You are awesome.
This video is a piece of art that should be on display in a museum, it paints such a complete picture.
Loan the material to the University of Florida In Gainesville, Florida.
I want to be like you and learn things and work in a museum like you but I don't know where to start :(
HollarForADollar :D Volunteer go to a museum and ask questions and pursue pursue never give up on your dream. Make sacrifices work hard and push through bad moments to get your goal.
i don't think u understand how much i love this episode
that makes sense, thanks for sharing!
I don't think it's a loss for her. Anyone who is as passionate as her will find a more fulfilling job somewhere else. It's a loss for the university.
Shame
In India we fucking burned down our NATIONAL NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. A fucking national museum.Shame on us shame on us
Shubham Bhushan it's gone downhill after British rule left
I read about that. I'm so sorry. Perhaps the tragedy will bring an awareness of its importance to the public?
Thank you, for this.
the whole video is a feels galore!! dangit its more heart wrenching than sad movies, dangit i need my manliness back!!
Bittersweet and very touching...
I have never cried over a video about a Museum........ until today.
Congratulations I work at the American Museum of Natural History and I totally identify with so many parts of your story! Specimen care can be a challenge in many settings. This has been a great series and I am looking forward to more from a new location! I have loved all of your episodes and this one too. There are so many challenges and I loved it when you said you can interact with the collections, REAL STUFF! Some people think interactivity means a touch screen...
Inspiring, even in the sadest moments.
Thank you.
yet also one filled with so much hope.
Emily, I admire and love you more and more with every episode I watch, be it a new one or an old one. Thank you for being here on RUclips!
Years later this episode still gives me feels
Congratulations to both of you!
OMG! Congrats!! Big Big HUGS! Welcome to your new home.
Chicago! Congratulations. A wonderful heartfelt episode to end our time in Montanna
I am so happy for you Emily!!! I can't wait to see all the wonderful videos you will have coming up for us.
Watched this again. Still bittersweet.
I want to hug all of you all the time. You're such a fantastic person.
Oh my heart. What a melancholy, lovely video. Congratulations on both your incredible work in Montana and your new life in Chicago, Emily. It's been an awesome journey to watch so far, I can't wait to see more.
This is such a beautiful episode. Thank you so much for sharing your emotional journey with us, and I think we're all wishing you well in Chicago.
This was beautiful. Thank you so much
I held back tears the entire video.
Thanks for the excitement about animals
Best of luck! I enjoy all your videos and am excited for the future of the show!
Congrats!!! I am so proud of all the work that you guys have put into this series! You deserve this!!!
So many feels. I cannot wait to see the adventure continue!
Congratulations on your new job. I teared up at the end of the video...thank you for finding & pursuing your heart and sharing it all with us.
This was sad and beautiful and perfect, and I'm so thankful that you've shared it with us.
I'm soooo happy for you Emily!
This is so inspiring! Thank you Emily. You're amazing!
I'm sorry. Very touching. You're awesome and continue to do great on new adventures.
Bittersweet tears. Congrats Emily!
A beautiful video. So moving, so perfect, so sad...
Very beautifully done. I got all choked up while watching this video. Congratulation on coming so far.
Love it! Sooo much!
I had to watch this again. It's a beautiful video.
This is sad and exciting and heart-wrenching and inspiring all at once. I just want to hug you, or help you carry your bags. Best wishes Emily, keep on being awesome! We'll keep on supporting you!
CONGRADULATIONS! I'm so excited and happy for you!
You made me cry. I'm so happy for you Emily!
I loved this video. You can tell that the collection means so much to you. That every collection, every single specimen from everywhere means a lot to you. I am so happy that new and bright things are on your horizons because I know you will always look at what you do with love and wonder. I look forward to going to the Chicago Field Museum one day to see everything that they have painstakingly, lovingly preserved.
Good luck to you in Chicago Emily!! So excited for you!
i just hope her friend gave her the hug she looked like she really needed.
Oh love. Well done. Truly. This is so fantastic. Thank you for everything you have done
Been thinking about the past a lot today and decided to rewatch a few of these old videos. This video made me cry when I watched it four and a half years ago and it still made me cry today.
This almost made me cry.
Amazingly filmed, Michael.
This was great. I love her passion and drive. Very important to have that. I wish her all the best in success!
I'm so happy for you Emily!!!!
This is an amazing, heartbreaking, beautiful video.
Best of luck on your new adventures, Emily. The opportunity is well-deserved. And I hope someone cares for "your" museum as you yourself would.
This is so beautiful.....
I'm so glad you found something you are passionate about.
I'm crying. Good luck at The Field Emily. You're going to be fantastic
A great deal of skill and passion goes into this channel. Thank you very much.