Mara Cox
banner
maracox.bsky.social
Mara Cox
@maracox.bsky.social
(They/Them)
Meandering geology student seeking the next adventure. Desperate to explore, forced to study. Happiest barefoot in a lake, listening to folk music, with good books, good vibes. and no sense of time.

"Your focus determines your reality"
Better a trash can than a trash cannot!
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Had a similar project at the same time for Sturucture but you need to make a structural map, cross sections, and stereonets. Too much to handle all at once while sick! I am glad the department was so kind to let me do this when I was able to handle it. Learned much more this way!
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
OH THE BAAAAAAAABY!!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HER!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I know and I am eating them. Also currently have a candy cane in my mouth.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
so proud to be here.

It is wild to have to your professor have to communicate with your medical team and be willing to do that. It has changed my priorities, goals, perspectives. I'm still sick and still recovering, but getting in this stupid petrologic map, really feels like a symbol of recovery.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
is incredible.

I have guilt about how much my professor team had to do and how hard it was on everyone here, including peers who have voiced anxiety about watching someone deteriorate. It's not a noble story and I'm not a role model. No one should do this. But, I am grateful beyond words and 5/n
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
still took me to Hawai'i understanding that if I didn't make, I deserved a last adventure, and if I did, that trip would be hugely impactful (which it was).

Today, I am FINALLY turning in my petrology project. It is silly to get teary over, but given how sick I was, being able to do this, 4/n
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Long, awful, insane story short-I lived! The things this department had to do and go through this year is incredible. I may owe my career path to PVCC, but I owe my life to William and Mary. They shouldn't have had to do this, but they did.

Somehow, even as sick as I was, another professor 3/n
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A different professor had to help me off the bathroom floor because I could not get up. After discussion, debate and anxiety on everyone's part, it was agreed that the petrology project would be due by the end of the calendar year. I was too sick and, at this point, we didn't know if I'd live. 2/n
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@gendercrook.bsky.social I have been told less sugar and more vegetables and proteins, and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Given the fact that I eat like Buddy The Elf during Christmastime....
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM