Monday, August 24, 2009

Graduate Career Start Number 2

I'm going to take a step back from the commentaries on research to talk about my own life in neuroscience. Tomorrow, I start my graduate career for the second time. What I mean by this is that I start my first classes in the graduate neuroscience program. I have Fundamentals of Neuroscience and Foundations of Human Neuropsychology as well as seminar. These courses provide my introduction into graduate studies. From what I can see from the syllabus for human neuropsych, I'll have a little more reading than I am used to from college.
The only real problem that I foresee in the classes is the matter of actually getting to the classes. I have to go from the West side to the East side back to the West side and every fourth Tuesday, back to the East side. The time between my two classes is 10 minutes. That is not a lot of time when it takes 15 minutes to get from one side of the river to the other by bike and 25 minutes if you catch a bus.
I guess I'll see how it goes. I am really excited to start to take these classes and to compare how difficult they are and what I learn to the classes that I took at St. Olaf.
Time will tell if the excitement keeps strong after 9/30 and the completion of my second test.

Graduate Career Start Number 2

I'm going to take a step back from the commentaries on research to talk about my own life in neuroscience. Tomorrow, I start my graduate career for the second time. What I mean by this is that I start my first classes in the graduate neuroscience program. I have Fundamentals of Neuroscience and Foundations of Human Neuropsychology as well as seminar. These courses provide my introduction into graduate studies. From what I can see from the syllabus for human neuropsych, I'll have a little more reading than I am used to from college