Your job and/or schooling
Sep. 3rd, 2010 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedusorDay 01 - Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – Your music
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your hobbies
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A precious item
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – An inspiration
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – Your mode of transportation
Day 14 – Where you live
Day 15 – Something you love about yourself
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – Your morning routine
Day 21 – Your job and/or schooling
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your sleeping habits
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
Day 30 – Your aspirations
It's all about the brains for me. Has been since I was 13, when I decided I was destined for a career in experimental psychology.
Before then, my education was all over the place. I was homeschooled for most of it, then attended private school for almost a year--they kicked me out before I could finish fifth grade because I attempted to hold the teacher to the same standards of respect to which she held us. I did an independent study program for a while before diving headfirst into community college at eleven. The C I got in Nutrition class that first semester still haunts my transcript.
But then I found out I could learn how minds worked for a living, and I've never looked back. It wasn't immediately obvious what other people called the field I wanted to enter, but I've known for more than seven years now what I want to do. I started out saying I wanted to study "you know, stuff like stereotypes and prejudice and how people make assumptions." Then I discovered the term "heuristics" in my first semester at Clark, and latched onto that as a catch-all description. Then I started reading Kahneman and Tversky, and Gigerenzer, and Damasio, and "Blink," and Jonah Lehrer's blog, and it turns out that there isn't one single name for what I want to study. I call it "judgment and decision-making" or "decision science" now, because the more technically accurate "hedonics" tends to bring sex to mind. It's preference, liking, why we gravitate toward some things and away from others.
For a long time, that's what my schooling has been about. The work I'm doing with Dr. K on modulation of the sweet taste receptor is paying my bills right now, and it's interesting enough, but I'm doing it because it will look good on a resume when I apply to do the stuff I really want to do.
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – Your music
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your hobbies
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A precious item
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – An inspiration
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – Your mode of transportation
Day 14 – Where you live
Day 15 – Something you love about yourself
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – Your morning routine
Day 21 – Your job and/or schooling
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your sleeping habits
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
Day 30 – Your aspirations
It's all about the brains for me. Has been since I was 13, when I decided I was destined for a career in experimental psychology.
Before then, my education was all over the place. I was homeschooled for most of it, then attended private school for almost a year--they kicked me out before I could finish fifth grade because I attempted to hold the teacher to the same standards of respect to which she held us. I did an independent study program for a while before diving headfirst into community college at eleven. The C I got in Nutrition class that first semester still haunts my transcript.
But then I found out I could learn how minds worked for a living, and I've never looked back. It wasn't immediately obvious what other people called the field I wanted to enter, but I've known for more than seven years now what I want to do. I started out saying I wanted to study "you know, stuff like stereotypes and prejudice and how people make assumptions." Then I discovered the term "heuristics" in my first semester at Clark, and latched onto that as a catch-all description. Then I started reading Kahneman and Tversky, and Gigerenzer, and Damasio, and "Blink," and Jonah Lehrer's blog, and it turns out that there isn't one single name for what I want to study. I call it "judgment and decision-making" or "decision science" now, because the more technically accurate "hedonics" tends to bring sex to mind. It's preference, liking, why we gravitate toward some things and away from others.
For a long time, that's what my schooling has been about. The work I'm doing with Dr. K on modulation of the sweet taste receptor is paying my bills right now, and it's interesting enough, but I'm doing it because it will look good on a resume when I apply to do the stuff I really want to do.
