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Hello all!

I'm Kate, a senior English major, Biology minor at Bryn Mawr College. 

I am a big fan of biology (and the cognitive sciences), books and reading, and science writing. I, like Paul, like to figure out how other people think and why they do so-- in an attempt to better understand how and why I think the things I do. I have an interesting brain, as everyone does, and it has quirks that I've yet to completely decipher. (Dissociative events that alter my perception of my environment, not as scary as they once were, but notable.)

I worked in the Brain, Science, and Inquiry-based Education Institute with K-12 teacher over the past summer and the experiences I had and the things I learned have greatly affected the way that I look at consciousness, unconsciousness, and education. 

The interplay between our conscious and unconscious is heavily involved in our learning process and I look forward to seeing what path we take during the semester concerning those ideas--and what differences there will be between us (students) and the institute participants (teachers).

As I said in class, I hope to learn more about the brain and the way we experience the world (the way in which we learn) and to use it with my thesis, in the theme of stream of consciousness writing and the relationship between the Humanities and the Sciences. I prefer to approach my two areas of study (English and Biology) with the belief that they have far more in common than most people give them credit for. The link between them is the brain and by pushing deeper into cognitive and behavioral studies, I think we can approach a better understanding of the educational system and how students should learn.