(DM:  Diane McKenzie, Interviewer)

JH:  Yeah, it was pretty fantastic actually.  It was, like I said, small classes, lots of time in the lab with professors.  The professors taught the labs or were involved in the labs.  They took us on field trips.  There were ... I did many independent studies, there was lots of opportunity to work on an area of particular interest with various professors, so I did quite a few independent studies.  And then I was lucky enough one summer to get a job at the Agricultural Research Centre which just opened so many doors for me.  I was a student summer technician.  But I was able to do hands on research with some of the scientists out there which gave me opportunities.  I mean by the time I was in my ... the end of my second year, I was doing my own research.  I was invited by my mentor and a scientist at the station to go to a scientific conference, so in the Fall of my third year I was presenting research already.  So, you just don’t get so many opportunities like that.

DM:  Yeah, lots of opportunities.

JH:  Yeah, it was pretty amazing and I did a, what was called at the time, a Co-Op Study.  So over the summer, I worked another summer as a technician at the Research Station and so I was able to get credit for my summer job which meant that I finished university by the end of my ... well at Christmas in my fourth year, so.

DM:  Oh okay, kind of a semester early?

JH:  A semester early, yeah, yeah.

DH:  Oh, okay.  So what was that focus of the research at that time?

JH:  I was working for a crop entomologist, so I was out in the fields looking at insects in alfalfa fields.  Yeah, so it was quite specific but I was looking at the population of insects and life cycles of insects.  So, I did ... my research was on the life cycle of a particular insect that wasn’t really well known, it wasn’t well described in the literature.  So, I was able to do some work on that.  I mean, I don’t think I appreciated it at the time but when I look back now it was amazing to have had that opportunity.  I mean, I was 19 years old presenting at a scientific conference!