Why do I have to be bored with being foolish and young?
Well, today I had a very important interview with Dr. Joseph P. Newman regarding doing a senior thesis in his lab next year, and probably doing some menial work these next two semesters for a little orientation.
I got it, more or less. He told me I should go home and think about it, but he basically said he had a place for me and I already have some experience in the area where he needs people, so I just need to email him about it. I'll be working one credit this semester, doing some training and lab meetings, and will be a full 3-credit RA next semester, doing some psychphys stuff. And for my thesis, I can do some basic work on the startle response in psychopathic patients, or I can do something ambitious tying together anxiety and psychopathy.
...And I am so not excited about it. When I got the job in Davidson's lab I was bouncing off the walls for days (until, of course, I met the person I would be working under and learned what I would be doing, and then, of course, I cried for many hours), but this is just sort of, eh, another job. I just really don't enjoy research, no matter how relevant to my field it is. I'm just not cut out for it, but it's the unfortunate dues I have to pay to get into a good grad program (coughcoughBostonUniversitycoughcough) I guess working with psychopaths will be interesting, in a way. But I'm still the geek on the other side of an electrode, working under a professor who only cares about his career in a field that too often reduces us to subcortical structures and dendrites.
I got it, more or less. He told me I should go home and think about it, but he basically said he had a place for me and I already have some experience in the area where he needs people, so I just need to email him about it. I'll be working one credit this semester, doing some training and lab meetings, and will be a full 3-credit RA next semester, doing some psychphys stuff. And for my thesis, I can do some basic work on the startle response in psychopathic patients, or I can do something ambitious tying together anxiety and psychopathy.
...And I am so not excited about it. When I got the job in Davidson's lab I was bouncing off the walls for days (until, of course, I met the person I would be working under and learned what I would be doing, and then, of course, I cried for many hours), but this is just sort of, eh, another job. I just really don't enjoy research, no matter how relevant to my field it is. I'm just not cut out for it, but it's the unfortunate dues I have to pay to get into a good grad program (coughcoughBostonUniversitycoughcough) I guess working with psychopaths will be interesting, in a way. But I'm still the geek on the other side of an electrode, working under a professor who only cares about his career in a field that too often reduces us to subcortical structures and dendrites.