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"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself."

— Edmund Lee

(Source: v-ielle, via thatkindofwoman)

“I am incredibly passionate about my life, I am absolutely unable to hide any emotion. If I wrote a book, I’d have to call it ‘P is for Passion’. I don’t go in for anything halfway. My feelings about things are instant, on the spot. And my heart is always, always on my sleeve.”
worn-in-perfection: ‘I look back at all the work I’ve done over the last 14 years and many things come to mind. Most importantly, how bad my hair was in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film. The cool thing is… you’ve supported me in all my awkwardness and allowed me to grow into the kind of actress and kind of person I hope to be. So thank you for that very much. Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’s a process. I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up. It’s often not cool to be the person who puts herself out there, but I found that ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, amazing things can and will happen.’ Emma Watson, on winning the Trailblazer Award at the MTV Movie Awards (April 14)
Independent Research Project: Neurobiology vs. Health Psychology Approach to Studying Stress

Pros vs. Pros

Neurobiology

  • More general application to grad school i.e. biology or psychology
  • Getting to see the direct effects of specific stress hormones on brain structures and how cortisol and T interact in modulating stress
  • Potential implications for stress-related illnesses
  • Potentially getting to actually induce hypercortisolism rather than infer it from behavioural measures
  • More controlled environment in animal studies allows for more implications
  • Prof. Monks as a mentor — more comfortable discussing ideas with him than Andersen

Health Psychology 

  • Working with human participants rather than mice/rats
  • Using an intervention approach
  • Seeing direct effects of stress on behaviour + direct effects of interventions on behaviour
  • Potentially less stressful — no immunohistochemical procedures on top of the statistical analysis I’ll already have to do in either case
  • Already acquainted with the way HART runs
  • Andersen gives better advice, even if she’s less approachable
  • The humour intervention is what you’re really interested in!
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