Following our family summer vacation, I traveled to New York to start a summer program held at Columbia University. Columbia’s schedule held taking a course from a college professor which included a basic environmental science and business class. We would had have 2 hour class twice a day for the next three weeks. Similarly to Yale, Columbia’s final project was working in a group to research and provide a solution for a real world problem. In this project we decided to research a solution for the declining population of the Chilean Sea Bass. Due to its rich meat it is a popular food dish and is fished at large rates. Along with this Chile has not implemented any regulations for limiting the harvest of this fish and the fish itself has a high reproductive age and low reproductive rate which contributes to the declining populations. For our solution we implemented new organizations to stop illegal fishing and regulations which provide safe zones for younger populations to reproduce and be protected from being fished. At the end of the project our group had been elected for the best research presentation, and shortly after the program had ended and I returned home.