!!!Self-Indulgent Complaining Warning!!!


Senior year is just craziness. It's turned into this huge balancing act of studying, applying to grad school, taking GREs, and working on my thesis. My classes are neither incredibly hard nor meaningful but unfortunately still require a substantial amount of attention to ace. Autism is turning out to be entirely worthless and disappointing, but on the plus side taking another math class (linear algebra) has been surprisingly refreshing.

The grad school race is becoming very crazy. At this point I know I'm applying to neuroscience at WashU and brain and cognitive science at MIT. I still want to choose two more programs and they will probably be two of the following: Harvard, Pittsberg, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, or John Hopkins. I'm looking for schools that have strong neuroimaging faculty and preferably their own MRI scanners, unfortunately it's not easy. Scanners are fairly rare in a university, and neuroscience programs that include psychology faculty are also pretty hard to come by. As it turns out, the whole world is NOT like Brandeis. I'm becoming increasingly tempted to take a year off before heading to grad school. It would be worth it to wait to find the right program and to ensure that I'm ready to commit 6 years of my life to getting a Ph.D.

My thesis seems to be coming along nicely, or at least that's what Prof. Sekuler seems to think. I'm honestly feeling a bit lost, and I don't know how Prof. Kahana will feel when he comes to visit this weekend and gets updated on my work. I hope he's as pleased as Bob, and I really hope he has some stunning new directions for me. I feel like I've completed my ERP story, and it may be time to write it up and start a new chapter of my thesis.

In other news...
Congrats to Rachel on running 26.2 fucking miles! Crazy!
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