Doing the Unstuck

The Cure's "Doing the Unstuck" is awesome. I've never listened to it but I accidentally clicked on it in my iTunes library last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zvk15rlcE (I don't know what's with the title in the video, but it's the same song)

Last night I attended CBS' GRE to PhD event, which was pretty informative but also made me so nervous about grad school application. Luckily it's not like I'm pressed for time since I'm only a sophomore, but now I feel like I want to start studying for the GRE this summer because I really want to do well.

I don't even know what I want to study yet, but right now it's either neuroscience, molecular biology, or cognitive science. I'm more aiming towards the last one right now because 1) it's a combination of so much that I'm interested in (neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, etc)--it's like a dream come true for me, and 2) as much as I love biology, some people that can't think beyond medicine and health sciences frustrate the hell out of me sometimes. But I don't know if I want to study more neuroscience before I move on to cognitive science. I might just aim to try to take a lot of upper-division neuroscience courses here before I graduate.

Registration is coming up soon (3 weeks--way too far away actually), and GradPlanner current looks like this:

Fall 2010: Intro to Neuro. I, OChem Lab, Scientific Thought, Intro to Ethical Theory, and a history of science class because I love science and I still need to fulfill lib.ed. requirements

I'm personally scared about having TWO writing-intensive philosophy classes at the same time, especially because ethics is one of those branches in philosophy that I haven't read much on. I'm so so so excited for Scientific Thought though. Oh, and I'm super pumped for neuro I!

Spring 2011: Intro to Neuro. II, Zoology/Animal Phys.+Animal Diversity Lab OR Animal Behavior (I need both, but I'm pretty sure the won't work at the same time because those St. Paul classes conflict so much), ideally some literature class (lib.ed.), a philosophy class, and I really really really want to take Calc III because I need a "strong math record" for cognitive science

Fall 2011: Neuro Lab, an upper-division neuroscience class, Calc IV, and I think I want to write my senior paper for philosophy then too, and some other stuff (maybe take care of my last lib.ed.)

Spring 2012: An upper-division neuroscience class, Zoology/etc. or Animal Behavior (depending on which I take in 2011), and the rest is up to me, really...

Of course I have to insert directed research in somewhere, and I might want to take stats, some linguistics class, some upper-division cognitive psych class, some computer science class or ANYTHING cognitive science related.