My new position at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience has been a love/hate relationship. I’ve spent hours and hours in front of these really long and tedious master’s dissertation on various methods on spike sorting. Its not one most interesting topics. On top of that, I’m analyzing pre-recorded data so I wont get a chance to work with the monkeys, haha. But I guess this is just the learning phase. Once I start my actual work, I’ll be trying to formulating better algorithms and programming better graphic user interfaces. Basically, everything includes math and more math. I feel like a physics major. But I love the fact that I’m actually doing scientific work and not just wasting away in pointless classes, learning basics. Being the only undergrad in this particular lab, I’m getting exposed, directly to higher level information. Plus, it felt super cool having lunch with my lab mates because I was having lunch with a bunch of neuroscientists!