One of those long boring updates
This quarter I will be the one and only official UCI tutor for the introductory Cognitive Science course. I'll have two to three tutoring sections of up to 8 people, each meeting twice a week.
Me, teaching people how to study. My tendency to procrastinate is the stuff of legends. Irony is sweet, no?
I'm actually rather looking forward to it. Sure, I've planned and participated in many a study session; but this is honest-to-goodness, write-on-the-whiteboard, hand-out-assignments caliber stuff.
Wish me luck!
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I'll also be taking a grad course on functional MRI. I've been working with fMRI for months and am becoming familiar with the technique, but a formal course on the topic would be supremely beneficial to my comprehension of the study we're doing.
Speaking of brains, I need to work quickly and thoroughly on the analysis of our study. I'm to have an abstract prepared by a month and a half from now for submission to the 2007 Vision Sciences Society conference and for submission to the Journal of Vision. Oh, and I need to prepare some slides for a talk my advisor is giving to the Cognitive Science department here.
So. Uh. Wish me luck! ....Lots of luck....
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Life is going swimmingly. It's a bit like swimming in a really strong current, when most of the energy you're expending is invested in merely staying afloat while the current is sweeping you along on a wild ride and all you can do is watch the scenes of your life whirl by.
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Tomorrow is a BBQ social event thing for the Cognitive Science department. Actually, it's for grad students and faculty to socialize and kick off the fall quarter, but I've been invited along by the lab. Who am I to refuse? I love the free food. And the ego-stroking. (The guys and my advisor really pimp me to the other faculty. Honestly, they give me far too much credit.)
That'll be fun. I'm torn between hoping I'm not the only undergrad there, and hoping that I am. I am also hoping that I don't make a complete idiot and/or dork of myself.
....Wish me luck! Ha.
Me, teaching people how to study. My tendency to procrastinate is the stuff of legends. Irony is sweet, no?
I'm actually rather looking forward to it. Sure, I've planned and participated in many a study session; but this is honest-to-goodness, write-on-the-whiteboard, hand-out-assignments caliber stuff.
Wish me luck!
/ / /
I'll also be taking a grad course on functional MRI. I've been working with fMRI for months and am becoming familiar with the technique, but a formal course on the topic would be supremely beneficial to my comprehension of the study we're doing.
Speaking of brains, I need to work quickly and thoroughly on the analysis of our study. I'm to have an abstract prepared by a month and a half from now for submission to the 2007 Vision Sciences Society conference and for submission to the Journal of Vision. Oh, and I need to prepare some slides for a talk my advisor is giving to the Cognitive Science department here.
So. Uh. Wish me luck! ....Lots of luck....
/ / /
Life is going swimmingly. It's a bit like swimming in a really strong current, when most of the energy you're expending is invested in merely staying afloat while the current is sweeping you along on a wild ride and all you can do is watch the scenes of your life whirl by.
/ / /
Tomorrow is a BBQ social event thing for the Cognitive Science department. Actually, it's for grad students and faculty to socialize and kick off the fall quarter, but I've been invited along by the lab. Who am I to refuse? I love the free food. And the ego-stroking. (The guys and my advisor really pimp me to the other faculty. Honestly, they give me far too much credit.)
That'll be fun. I'm torn between hoping I'm not the only undergrad there, and hoping that I am. I am also hoping that I don't make a complete idiot and/or dork of myself.
....Wish me luck! Ha.