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At the beginning of our semester, I originally thought that we were going to talk about topics in neuroscience, by mixing in our biology and psychology backgrounds. However, what we have done instead was to challenge very simple topics in neuroscience and think about these topics from lots of different standpoints: biologically, psychologically, culturally, morally/ethically, philosophically, historically, etc; and this really made me challenge how I thought about things. For example, when discussing the use of drugs such as ectasy or LSD, automatically we would say that the use of these illegal drugs for medicinal use is absolutely appauling; but this class made me say "why not?", "what is so wrong with them?", "are they that harmful?", and "do the benefits outweigh the negatives?" I was impressed this semester. There was never a dry moment; we always filled the time with discussion; and most importantly, I learned to question even the simplest of things that society, as a whole, dare not question. The possibilities are endless!

Jayme E. Hopkins, '08