Pseudonymous Ramblings by Psychobunny

Wow! A post! A terribly long post!

Hi everyone! I'm back from Psychology Geek Fest 2006 (I finally figured out a pseudonym for it! Yay!) at the University of Eastern-Bordering State. (Yes, if you look through my Flickr set, you'll find out exactly which state Eastern-Bordering State is. Yes, this chips away at my pseudonymity. No, I don't really care about this; it's still set up so nobody can Google my real name--or theirs if they happen to be featured on here--and find my blog.) I've been back a while, but I'm just now at a place where I can blog without time limits on internet access and small children screaming in the background.

Psychology Geek Fest was awesome. Morning lectures, afternoon labs, evening discussion panels, and the company of two-and-a-half dozen of the best young psychology students made the program every psychology geek's dream come true. The university is huge and absolutely beautiful. The main campus's student union alone is so large it has escalators and a fourteen-lane bowling alley in the basement. And the science museum in the next city completely rocked my socks off. (Of course, how could it not? It's a science museum. With an IMAX theater. It's currently exhibiting Body Worlds. And they sell T-shirts [which I'm just nerdy enough to wear]! Even though behavioral science was conspicuously missing from the exhibits, I'm in love.) If anyone is considering graduate school at the University of Eastern-Bordering State, I highly recommend it! I will warn you that the public transportation sucks (mostly buses), but I was told they're working on expanding the light rail system. And it'd be worth living there just for the science museum. (I miss you, my precious!!!!)

And as not to short you of the whining to which I know you've become accustomed, I'm completely jealous of those of you who decided to stay at school this summer. With only seven weeks left to go before moving back to school after returning home from the Geek Fest, I realized I'd never find paying work now. (Why not try before? Moving home, writing up our study for publication, Association for Behavioral Science convention, prep work for Geek Fest [Three inches of readings! Lovely! :)], bickering about verbal operants via e-mail with Dr. Way-Too-Generous [because a request is a mand, not a tact, and I'm not going to send in something that's wrong just to avoid stepping on my advisor's ego], learning to write code in Visual Basic for Dr. Candid Advice's lab, cleaning my room, laziness, etc.) So I'm doing the independent academic/hausfrau thing for the next six weeks, I guess. Paper revisions, more bickering, a bit of not-so-light reading (mmm, classics in behavior analytic literature), more programming, some test question writing (only six chapters left!), etc. How pathetic my little life must be for me to consider it fun.

Gotta go. Bye!

posted by Psychobunny at 6:57 PM