I have always been the kind of person who could never make up her mind. For the past three years, my answer to the question, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” changed every two weeks. Even now, I can’t bring myself to choose between my two passions: languages and neuroscience. At Fordham College at Lincoln Center, I don’t have to choose. The integrative neuroscience program covers all the bases, from cell to cognitive to computational neuroscience. The opportunity to customize my education and set myself up for a fulfilling future in my area of study is one that has been integral throughout my college search, and I believe that Fordham offers just that. The Lincoln Center College also appeals to my style of learning. I’m a very hands-on
Carol Dweck 's piece "Brainology" and Rebecca Cox "The Student Fear Factor" have changed my pursuit towards my academic goals because it changes the mindset on how I approach any aspect in my everyday life, including work, but also how I will be praising the children whom I work with. This is because I am learning new approaches on how I should handle my college life and apply it to my daily life. Both of these pieces seem to have spoken to me because I get severe anxiety and reading what other students went through made me realize that I don’t have college life as bad as many students do. Instead of quitting (like most first time college students do), I will keep pursuing my associate’s degree in child development. I know that reading these
I sat in my child development class in a “brick and mortar” classroom setting. What was I doing there? I was extremely interested in what the professor was speaking on and what was being discussed. However, I was beginning to doubt whether I wanted to continue in my current field of study, Speech/Language Pathology. I no longer felt I was being fulfilled. There was something lacking. I talked to a few of my friends who mentioned how much money I would make as a Speech/Language Pathologist. I heard what they were saying, but somehow it just did not matter. I had to find the missing link…….
Everyone wants to be successful but success depends on individual mindset. In the article Brainology, Dr. Carol Dweck’s explains that growth and fix mindset play role in students success. Growth mindset students aren’t afraid of failure, they embrace challenges and believe that efforts are what lend to success. Growth mindset individuals and students believe that mastery comes from failures and efforts. Fix mindset students is afraid of failure and don’t like challenges.
Until this past spring I hadn't thought much about what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go for college. One day in the spring the junior class had a meeting in the auditorium about taking our ACT test and college plans. After that meeting I realized I needed a change, getting into college wasn't going to be a breeze, kind of how I had treated high school. Although I always considered myself to be fairly smart, I never had put much effort into school, but after seeing the facts and requirements to get into schools, and especially after hearing Ms. Rice saying "In today's world, the way to a successful future, is choosing college as your future", I knew I had to make an adjustment for the better so that college could be my future.
When I was a senior in high school, applying for colleges was something I was trying to put off. I had such a wide range of interests that I had no inclination what career path would be the right fit for me. I envied my classmates who could concisely answer the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” By April of my senior year, I found myself accepted to 10 different Universities in many different majors and still no clear direction. It wasn’t until meeting with faculty from different nursing schools that I became very interested in the thought of becoming a registered nurse. Speaking with anyone associated with the nursing programs, I noticed a strong sense of pride and enthusiasm that was unique to the field.
Neurobiology is a theory that deals with the brain and your nerves. It determines if you are a left or right brain person. One of the theorists is named Roger Sperry. He was a very big neurobiologist. A disease that deals with this theory is ADD/ADHD.
As a teenager, I discovered that life is a subjective experience that can be viewed from many perspectives. In an effort to open my mind to different views of the world, I organized a plan to take flying lessons, and completed extensive flight training as well as specialized courses in physics, mechanics, and weather to obtain my private pilot’s license prior to completing high school. I have always enjoyed tackling challenges, and independently piloting airplanes at a young age helped me develop a level of confidence, maturity, and drive.
The brain is one of the most interesting yet the most complex part of the body. Since no one can really see what’s inside, it’s a big question for most people on how it works. The brain is made up of more than 100 billion neurons that communicate through the synapse. It controls all the function of the body, receive and interprets information and process thoughts and emotions (Hines, 2016). It is one of the most important part of the body. How we remember, how we think, do and etc. is made possible because of the brain. The brain is divided into three main parts: cerebellum, cerebrum and brainstem. Each part has its own specialised area on the body in order to function well (Hines, 2016).
The documentary “The Brain That Changes Itself” explores the brains ability to form new neural connections; otherwise known as neuroplasticity. For four centuries, it was believed that the brain could not change. This meant that if one was born with a learning disability, there would be nothing they could do to correct it. However, various research studies have come to prove that the brain can in fact change itself. Neuroplasticity allows the brain to rewire and form new, more effective pathways.
Neuroenhancement is when people use pharmaceutical drugs to change the chemistry in the brain, in order to function better. Some of these drugs might be for memory or attention, for example. People who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are often prescribed a neuroenhancer, typically from a class of drugs called stimulant medications. Unfortunately, over the years that these drugs have been out, the number of people who have been abusing them has increased dramatically. Stimulant medications, especially, are sold on the black market with significant mark-up over what they would cost from a drugstore. People are prescribed these medications and purchase them with cash or their medical insurance, turning around and making many times profit on them on the streets. The easy access to such powerful medications is
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is one of my favorite poems for many reasons, but recently it has started to gain new meaning as I face graduation. I have started to wonder how different my life would be if I had only chosen to travel down one road instead of sprinting down both roads at the same time. When I declared my biology major, my dad expressed concern that I was choosing one possible life and career over another possibility. He said he knew how happy writing made me and he wondered if I was doing the right thing in not pursuing that. He spoke the words I had not yet spoken out loud for myself. “You shouldn’t enter college worried about what you will do when you exit,” said David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, at a World Economic Forum panel discussion last week on the state of the humanities. Rubenstein’s words are true now and they were true then: I should not have worried about choosing so soon. After I arrived at Columbia College, I began taking English courses because I could not take biology courses without at least trying to explore my passion for literature and creative writing. Thanks to time at Columbia College, I started to see the value the required courses of the WPDM major more because of what they taught me about myself than what they taught me about the subject matter. Combined with my classes, my internship experiences have confirmed that I am indeed heading in the right direction. I could not become a successful writer and biologist without the valuable set of skills that I have gained through my time at Columbia College. I believe I made the right choice by choosing both roads.
Seeing that I never had any strong passions or interests, I was always unsure about the path I wanted to take. I didn’t have a dream school, but getting accepted into the Tuition Exchange Program for Pepperdine was seemingly the most logical decision to make. I didn’t take much interest in the University itself, but through my time at this school is where I was able to work on myself and fully understand what I was capable of.
When I was in third year of medical school, the knowledge that I obtained from neurology rotation helped me diagnose that my grandmother, with history of chronic liver disease, had the complication called decompensated cirrhosis and led to hepatic encephalopathy as she gradually had asterixis both of her hands along with declined cognitive function. Nevertheless, after bringing her to the hospital, her condition soon deteriorated to seizures, then she passed away as she went into coma. This was a devastating experience, however, my interest in Neuroscience started growing because I witnessed the clinical symptoms how the brain was affected by a toxic substance, ammonia, which was made by our bodies, was supposed to be metabolized by the healthy
Neuroscience leadership is keen on improving various aspects of the decision-making, problem-solving, communication, and rationalization contexts of management. Currently, research demonstrates that this new leadership science has the potential to improve leaders’ efficacy in three main ways. First, it analyzes and explicates the relationships leaders form with staff and how they influence these empathically with improved management behaviors (Ghadiri, Habermacher, & Peters, 2013). Secondly, neuroscience empowers effective leadership by creating the ability within leaders to be more in control of their emotional awareness. Thirdly, the new leadership science could potentially complement the leaders’ regimen of innovation restorative and creativity
Imagine for a moment that what defines us is nothing more than the product of years of molecular evolution; envision the human condition comprised of streams of fluids and chemicals that flow along the many roadways within billions of cells, made to pulsate in harmony by trillions of synaptic connections. While this vast neurophysiological network holds the key to many algorithms within the field of modern science, it is limited in deciphering the one eternal question that seeks to ascertain how a three-pound mass of tissue can “imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos.” FOOTNOTE Combining an understanding of biological processes with the functionality relevant to our behavior and cognition