Resucitation
As the title suggests, this blog is in dire need of a new breath of life... or at the very least some updated posts... Anyway, just thought I'd update with a few thoughts of the day...Well, I'm 3 months into my Master's program at NUS. It's pretty different from undergraduate life in the sense that the focus is more on research than on coursework. I'm actually doing only 1 module this semester.. good huh? The trouble is, this module is a cheem statistics module and we have homework and a quiz every other week... Other times, I'm testing (torturing) participants on their performance in cognitive tasks in an extreme environment - the cold magnetic resonance imaging scanning room. Wahh!!!! For more information on fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging, check out Columbia University's fMRI website. Better yet, check out my lab's website! I'm officially part of the FBI - Functional Brain Imaging Lab to be exact.
It might seem weird that I belong to a lab; after all I'm not a chemist. But actually, any group of researchers who collaborate on research of similar theme and methodology can band together and call themselves a lab. The great thing is that we have our own space to conduct experiments and do work on computers, not all the psychology graduate students are so lucky. And I like this lab, everyone's supportive and quite fun. My supervisor's really nice to work with too - he relates with us more as friends and colleagues than as teacher-student. I also like the fact that his family is really important to him. He's really sweet to his wife (she works in NUS and comes over often to have lunch with him) and is really patient and fun with his 3-year-old son Hugo, who comes over once in a while to charm us all with his impish smiles. All in all, this Master's scholarship was a great thing to happen to me.
posted by Puz @ 10:49 AM
1 Comments:
the scholarship didn't happen to you, you happened to it.
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