Hi! Thanks for the welcome!
Studying abroad has been amazing—it’s really making me think about all sorts of things I’ve never thought of and I’m loving noticing the subtle cultural differences!
If I have any questions, I’ll be sure to PM you—thank you so much for the offer! :)
I’m in the UK for the semester, but once I’m back at GT I’m extremely interested in the meetup!
Hello!
I’m a 20 year old student at Georgia Tech, double majoring in Industrial Engineering and Psychology, and am spending the current semester studying abroad at the University of Leeds in the UK.
I read HPMOR this weekend on a bus trip to London and as soon as I returned I found this site and have been enthralled by the Sequences, which I am slowly working my way through.
All of my life I have loved to read and learn new things and think through them, but last year I came to the realization that my curiosity had started to die in my late high school years. I found myself caring about getting a good grade and then abruptly forgetting the information. Much of what I was “learning” I never truly understood and yet I was still getting praise from teachers for my good grades, so I saw no reason to invest more effort. Early last year, I realized that this was happening and attempt to rededicate myself to finding things that again made me passionate about learning. This was a major contribution to adding Psychology as a second major.
This semester of new classes in a new educational system combined with the past few days of reading the Sequences have sparked my interest in many subjects. I’m itching to go to the school library and start picking up anything that catches my interest now that the the thirst to learn has been reawakened. I’m especially interested in Evolutionary Psychology, Social Psychology, and Statistics. I have absolutely no idea what I would like to do as a future career, but have this reoccurring thought that I would love to do some sort of work which involved restructuring the education system. (Every person at my University that I have mentioned that thought to gives me a strange look and says either “Education? You???′ or “But then you wouldn’t make any money!’)
Anyways, I am extremely glad to have found this site and community.
Hi, thank you for both the welcome and the wealth of helpful knowledge!
I did find the info on spaced repetition, as well as everything else you linked me to, very interesting! I think my problem now is that my interest in so many different things has been sparked, and I’m having a hard time prioritizing what to read and research first!