{"id":255,"date":"2018-11-26T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=255"},"modified":"2018-11-27T03:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T03:21:38","slug":"staff-profile-beth-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2018\/11\/26\/staff-profile-beth-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Profile: Beth Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>You just started here in August! How did you end up here at Oregon State?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did my undergrad here and played soccer for the Beavs. I originally studied elementary education, but I\u2019m an introvert and decided that standing up in front of a group every single day was too exhausting. At the same time, I was doing some tutoring for the subjects I was studying and enjoyed working with adults, so that\u2019s how I found my way to being an advisor. I became a liberal arts major and I got my master\u2019s in college student services administration. After I graduated, I advised student-athletes at Oregon State and the University of Colorado. Then I wanted to be closer to my family, so I took a position at UC Santa Cruz helping students find the right major for them. During that time, I started a family, and we wanted to be somewhere more family friendly. Since I loved living in Corvallis so much as a student, I decided to take this position and move back up here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-256 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/11\/20180217_124501-e1543252442648-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/11\/20180217_124501-e1543252442648-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/11\/20180217_124501-e1543252442648-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/11\/20180217_124501-e1543252442648.jpg 1932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s your favorite part about your job?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think it\u2019s really fun, complex work, so advising the natural resrources and TRAL majors, I\u2019m learning a ton about things I never knew before, so, it\u2019s really fun.\u00a0 Mostly, it\u2019s the students that make this job so enjoyable. This is the first time I\u2019ve advised Ecampus students, and I love getting to know them. Everyone is so friendly, and I love the atmosphere here with my fellow advisors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What does your life look like outside\u00a0of work?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve been married\u00a0for almost 9 years. I met my husband playing soccer. We\u2019re both soccer players. Any chance we get, we like to play pickup soccer, and we\u2019re looking for games to play. My son Conor is 7, and my son Liam is 5, and we\u2019ve just been getting acclimated and getting them started in school. In our free time, we love to hike and go to parks and spend time in nature as much as we can. We\u2019ve been exploring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/11\/20180512_1312060-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/11\/20180512_1312060-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/11\/20180512_1312060-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/11\/20180512_1312060-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What are your other hobbies?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I have time to myself I like to jog, read and do yoga. It\u2019s also been fun taking my family to places I remember going as a student like American Dream. We\u2019re big fans of the local library and go at least once a week. I\u2019m also trying to figure out what kind of plants are in my new, large yard as well as what to do with all the apples from my apple tree!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s your favorite meal?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would forgo meals to eat chocolate chip cookies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In your dream house, what one weird feature would you include?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve been a baby about acclimating to the weather here in Oregon, so maybe some kind of towel warmers and heated floors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You just started here in August! How did you end up here at Oregon State? I did my undergrad here and played soccer for the Beavs. I originally studied elementary education, but I\u2019m an introvert and decided that standing up in front of a group every single day was too exhausting. 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