Today's stuff
Well, today I passed the test at ACN (ahem, I mean "Jewelry Television by ACN"). That was the last day of my tortuous (for me!) morning/evening training classes. The instructors were nice enough people, but the scheduling has just been hell on me. I've never been a morning person, but getting up at about 6am one day and then staying till 12am the next was just hard for me. I didn't really get to see my friends much at all this week (saw them today!) because of the evenings and, when I wasn't working the evenings, they either weren't available or I was asleep. A grueling week for me.
Anyway, I've been reading an interesting book, Origins of Virtue and came to some rather startling realizations. One, not to sound pompous, arrogant, etc... but the premise is something that had occurred to me years ago before I was even aware of Hobbes' theories (regarding human selfishness in altruism), Kropotnik's opinions regarding that and Axelrod's computer models (though I was made familiar with Triver's models about a year ago) and then Novak's Pavlov program. Again I can't help but feel I was beaten to the punch (seems to happen so often), but on the other hand I'm heartened to see that I wasn't entirely off-base (in spite of the reactions I generally elicited from my peers when speaking on these matters). Two... bloody blast, I seem to have forgotten already. Anyway, the book is an interesting read. The premise isn't anything terribly startling, but the material contained therein is interesting and a lot of work I was previously unaware of. I think these computer models they construct for game theory are pretty neat!
I e-mailed three professors at UTK in the Psych Dept on the advice of my advisor (seems logical). The three have similar or correlary interests to my own research interest and, considering the hyper-competitive situation in the EEB program it is probably in my best interest to pursue admission to the Psych Experimental program instead. As my friend Gyopi wisely pointed out, I can still bend my research to my interests in Evolutionary Biopsychology in spite of the lack of departmental interest and I can work with the individuals who are interested in it at the same time. Overall I should be able to achieve the same experience (though without the same course focus) by making of the program what I really want of it. Anyway, the three professors responded and one of them isn't involved in the clinical program (unfortunately), so I'll have to try to contact another one or two to make up for that. The other two, however, invited me to stop by sometime and talk about my research interests and their research. I would be absolutely ecstatic except that they want me to come by during my work hours next week. Quite a bind... I just got the job and it would be foolish of me to jeopardize it. By the advice of my girl, Anna, I'll just try to contact the professors regarding this predicament and see what sort of arrangement can be made. Hoping for an excellent outcome...
ME
Anyway, I've been reading an interesting book, Origins of Virtue and came to some rather startling realizations. One, not to sound pompous, arrogant, etc... but the premise is something that had occurred to me years ago before I was even aware of Hobbes' theories (regarding human selfishness in altruism), Kropotnik's opinions regarding that and Axelrod's computer models (though I was made familiar with Triver's models about a year ago) and then Novak's Pavlov program. Again I can't help but feel I was beaten to the punch (seems to happen so often), but on the other hand I'm heartened to see that I wasn't entirely off-base (in spite of the reactions I generally elicited from my peers when speaking on these matters). Two... bloody blast, I seem to have forgotten already. Anyway, the book is an interesting read. The premise isn't anything terribly startling, but the material contained therein is interesting and a lot of work I was previously unaware of. I think these computer models they construct for game theory are pretty neat!
I e-mailed three professors at UTK in the Psych Dept on the advice of my advisor (seems logical). The three have similar or correlary interests to my own research interest and, considering the hyper-competitive situation in the EEB program it is probably in my best interest to pursue admission to the Psych Experimental program instead. As my friend Gyopi wisely pointed out, I can still bend my research to my interests in Evolutionary Biopsychology in spite of the lack of departmental interest and I can work with the individuals who are interested in it at the same time. Overall I should be able to achieve the same experience (though without the same course focus) by making of the program what I really want of it. Anyway, the three professors responded and one of them isn't involved in the clinical program (unfortunately), so I'll have to try to contact another one or two to make up for that. The other two, however, invited me to stop by sometime and talk about my research interests and their research. I would be absolutely ecstatic except that they want me to come by during my work hours next week. Quite a bind... I just got the job and it would be foolish of me to jeopardize it. By the advice of my girl, Anna, I'll just try to contact the professors regarding this predicament and see what sort of arrangement can be made. Hoping for an excellent outcome...
ME