On the Watchman Trail at Zion National Park, Utah. Photo by Tracey Switek.

I can’t remember the exact date anymore, but sometime last month I reached my six year science blogiversary.

I was just a directionless Rutgers University undergraduate at the time I started writing. I loved paleontology, but was unsatisfied with my college education, so I pursued the subject on my own time and used my blog to enthuse about what I was learning. I had no idea that I’d end up writing for the likes of Wired, Smithsonian, Slate, and Nature, not to mention have two