My fall quarter rotation advisor came up to me after my winter rotation talk (for my winter rotation I had a different advisor) and asked me if I was interested in joining his lab. I told him that I would be quite pleased to do so and that I could start in the summer. He said that he has a great project planned for me that would entail stimulation of a “reward nucleus” in the primate brain that would be triggered by selected activity in the motor cortex – a sort of positive feedback loop a la brain machine interface.
The project he descibed is very much the sort of research I hope to pursue and I felt a great sense of relief to have found a lab. I thought to myself “finally my hard work has paid off”.
And then he says “… we’ll see.”
Talk about head games. Thanks for getting me all hyped up on a maybe.
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Ha!
Maybe he just thought you’d want more time to think about it.
Sounds interesting. In perhaps related matters, there was a funny thing written on the wipe-board in one of the med student lecture halls and I want to get a ‘nerd’ tee-shirt made based on it. It said: “HAVE FUN!” with the structure of dopamine above it.
Also, i had a great idea about an in vivo physiology experiment yesterday whilst stoned and now i cant remember it. DAMN! GOOD LUCK BUB!
thanks fer your well wishes. I hope that you succeeded in assembling your thesis committee.
BTW… I’m gonna be in Ptown tomorrow night if you’re up for any hijinks.
Dude, you so gotta get your buddies into nerdcore and geeksta rap – it’s funny! You down with entropy? Yeah, you know me! And somewhere out there are t-shirts for super-geeks (threadless.com). So, back to the original reason for the response – for them not to recognize your mad phat interest and capability would be suspect and improper!
Man! You gotsta call me when you’re in town sos we can hang out! I just read yer lil message above and i’m several days late!