Extracurriculars

[jedusor]

I went to a couple of talks today. One was a biology seminar by a grad student from Stony Brook about spacial cognition in stickleback fish. I can't wait to take Biology of the Brain and Brain and Behavior. I don't know if I'll be able to handle neuropsychology as a career, but I do think it's the most important part of psychological research and will become more important as more is learned about it, and I want to at least understand the basics.

Later there was a dinner event, put on by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship folks, at which this dude talked about starting this site. It was very cool--he knew what he was talking about, and was very friendly (not to mention remarkably easy on the eyes). I told him about Calendar Geeks, and he sounded enthusiastic about it. He said to ping him on Facebook and he'd put in a plug on his Twitter, which is apparently followed by something like 2500 people. I also talked to the president of the entrepreneurship club about joining. I haven't actually joined any clubs here yet, although if the vegetarian/vegan folks or the gay folks were tabling, I'd sign up.

The best part of the evening, though, was when I mentioned Will Shortz (I wasn't name-dropping, really; I didn't even realize it might sound like that until after I said it) and my entrepreneurship teacher said, in all seriousness, "Will Shortz? The New York Times crossword editor? I thought he was dead!"

Comments

[projectyl.livejournal.com]

Old crossword editors never die. They just go unchecked.

(I feel like, given more time, I could come up with a better one than that. We'll see.)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

6-Down?

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

Your icon is overclued.

[darcydodo]

My dad's a neuroscientist. He works on crayfish.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

That's cool. The main issue for me is that I cannot work with dead animals, and it's hard to do worthwhile research involving brains without dissecting them.

[darcydodo]

Uhh... that's not true. My dad works with live crayfish. Not dead ones. You can tell which neurons are firing without cutting open the animal!

[devjoe.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the calendar, do you have an estimated delivery date?

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

If there's anything I've learned from this calendar thing, it's that I shouldn't estimate delivery dates. But they should be arriving here any day now, and I will turn around and ship them back out as fast as I can.