Neuroscience 281!

I strive to make my academic choices reflect my passions, a surprisingly difficult feat to accomplish when requirements such as Organic Chemistry and Calculus are constantly jumping into my schedule like characters from a horror movie (and simultaneously scaring me). However, as a junior I believe I've finally struck a happy medium between my interests in public policy and politics and my background in neuroscience. This course appealed to me so much because it so intriguingly combines multiple disciplines into a single entity, and with my foray into the humanities, it is an entirely new and refreshing way to approach neuroscience. With all of the intensive basic science courses I have taken, along with my research job in a cell biology laboratory, I thought that taking a course that would allow me to use these skills while approaching neuroscience in a social context was a perfect way to allow me to perhaps better understand the overlap between my two disciplines of study. I am looking forward to this semester as an eye-opening experience!