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In terms of my biomedical interests, I'm mostly neuroscience/experimental psychology oriented, though I don't know enough to talk with any kind of confidence yet. I might be doing a research project about how motivation modulates working memory? I'm also attending lectures about pharmacology, though the knowledge for that goes in one ear out the other on account of my terrible concentration. Otherwise, things are going okay.
Edited (To address another part of a comment.) 2020-02-25 12:35 (UTC)
Damn! I thought I was logged in - sorry for the anon message.
No worries, it's happened to all of us. It was happening so often to selenak for a while there that we started blaming Prussian cyber agents from the beyond!
In terms of my biomedical interests, I'm mostly neuroscience/experimental psychology oriented
That's cool! I know just enough neuroscience to throw in some jargon when talking about trauma psychology, no more. It's super interesting, though, and I keep trying to add to my knowledge a little bit here and there. (It will help when my own concentration is back, for sure. Sympathies to you.)
You probably are aware of this if you organized according to mildred's comments, but I started another post. (I usually start one when I notice the comment count getting near to or above 300, which is when we've noticed it starts to get hard to navigate. Though I think we've got a rhythm now where each separate thought gets a different thread, which is really helping the navigation process.)
I also found socializing at university rather difficult, especially at first (I don't know where you are exactly in your degree?) and my university wasn't nearly as big as yours! One of the things that worked for me was finding a couple of extracurriculars I enjoyed and had some social component (in my case, orchestra/choir/music and church) -- I should imagine that Oxford has some sort of History society that would welcome you :)
Of course I don't want to discourage you from hanging out with us -- we would love for you to hang out here and find stuff for us! But it's also nice to find people in RL who share interests, and university is a place where a lot of people with disparate and academic interests are all jammed up together, which makes it a bit easier sometimes. :)
I'm also not great with people, but at a certain point, like mildred, I started treating it like a research project rather than one of those things one is just expected to pick up. Though unlike mildred, I didn't do a deep dive into anthropology, but mostly treat it like a learning algorithm where observations (of both other people and myself) lead to formulating scripts that function better or worse at dealing with certain situations, and updating the network with new information given the observation results :) I still occasionally make some rookie mistakes, but less than I used to :)
ETA: mildred responded to your anonymous comment below; not sure if you have seen it, because you probably get emailed about direct replies to gambitten but not to anonymous replies?
but mostly treat it like a learning algorithm where observations (of both other people and myself) lead to formulating scripts that function better or worse at dealing with certain situations, and updating the network with new information given the observation results :)
That's way more practical than what I did, which was keep the same social skills but collect a lot more theoretical knowledge that I largely refuse to apply. :P But then I'm odd in that I see my low level of socialization as a feature rather than a bug.
I usually start one when I notice the comment count getting near to or above 300
It amuses me that we have two consecutive posts that ended up with exactly 380 comments.
Though I think we've got a rhythm now where each separate thought gets a different thread, which is really helping the navigation process.)
Thank goodness for that! I also like that we eventually settled on keeping thread subjects relevant. That helps too. (Props to selenak for starting that!)
ETA: mildred responded to your anonymous comment below; not sure if you have seen it, because you probably get emailed about direct replies to gambitten but not to anonymous replies?
Ooh, good call! If you don't subscribe to the post, you won't get notified for things like that.
Discussions progress pretty quickly! I'll barely be able to keep up lol
I'm about half way through my degree at this point. I tried quite hard to make friends in my first year and I joined a few societies, but connections didn't really result? I'm alright with staying by myself now; it's more reliable than being frustrated or anxious trying to make new connections at university, which won't last for very long.
I did see that reply! I try to read the whole threads.
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In terms of my biomedical interests, I'm mostly neuroscience/experimental psychology oriented, though I don't know enough to talk with any kind of confidence yet. I might be doing a research project about how motivation modulates working memory? I'm also attending lectures about pharmacology, though the knowledge for that goes in one ear out the other on account of my terrible concentration. Otherwise, things are going okay.
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No worries, it's happened to all of us. It was happening so often to
In terms of my biomedical interests, I'm mostly neuroscience/experimental psychology oriented
That's cool! I know just enough neuroscience to throw in some jargon when talking about trauma psychology, no more. It's super interesting, though, and I keep trying to add to my knowledge a little bit here and there. (It will help when my own concentration is back, for sure. Sympathies to you.)
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You probably are aware of this if you organized according to mildred's comments, but I started another post. (I usually start one when I notice the comment count getting near to or above 300, which is when we've noticed it starts to get hard to navigate. Though I think we've got a rhythm now where each separate thought gets a different thread, which is really helping the navigation process.)
I also found socializing at university rather difficult, especially at first (I don't know where you are exactly in your degree?) and my university wasn't nearly as big as yours! One of the things that worked for me was finding a couple of extracurriculars I enjoyed and had some social component (in my case, orchestra/choir/music and church) -- I should imagine that Oxford has some sort of History society that would welcome you :)
Of course I don't want to discourage you from hanging out with us -- we would love for you to hang out here
and find stuff for us! But it's also nice to find people in RL who share interests, and university is a place where a lot of people with disparate and academic interests are all jammed up together, which makes it a bit easier sometimes. :)I'm also not great with people, but at a certain point, like mildred, I started treating it like a research project rather than one of those things one is just expected to pick up. Though unlike mildred, I didn't do a deep dive into anthropology, but mostly treat it like a learning algorithm where observations (of both other people and myself) lead to formulating scripts that function better or worse at dealing with certain situations, and updating the network with new information given the observation results :) I still occasionally make some rookie mistakes, but less than I used to :)
ETA: mildred responded to your anonymous comment below; not sure if you have seen it, because you probably get emailed about direct replies to gambitten but not to anonymous replies?
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That's way more practical than what I did, which was keep the same social skills but collect a lot more theoretical knowledge that I largely refuse to apply. :P But then I'm odd in that I see my low level of socialization as a feature rather than a bug.
I usually start one when I notice the comment count getting near to or above 300
It amuses me that we have two consecutive posts that ended up with exactly 380 comments.
Though I think we've got a rhythm now where each separate thought gets a different thread, which is really helping the navigation process.)
Thank goodness for that! I also like that we eventually settled on keeping thread subjects relevant. That helps too. (Props to
ETA: mildred responded to your anonymous comment below; not sure if you have seen it, because you probably get emailed about direct replies to gambitten but not to anonymous replies?
Ooh, good call! If you don't subscribe to the post, you won't get notified for things like that.
Re: Can... Can I join?
I'm about half way through my degree at this point. I tried quite hard to make friends in my first year and I joined a few societies, but connections didn't really result? I'm alright with staying by myself now; it's more reliable than being frustrated or anxious trying to make new connections at university, which won't last for very long.
I did see that reply! I try to read the whole threads.
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Discussions do move pretty fast, haha. I think we're all operating at the limits of our ability to keep up. :)
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That is totally fair! And we are really enjoying your company :D