What have you read lately (say, since last semester), that you found interesting? Why did it catch your attention?

Truthfully, I haven't really read any books between last semester and now. During winter vacation, I visited friends, slept, celebrated Christmas, slept, ate good food, forgot everything I had learned during first semester, slept, and then went to internship. At internship, however, since my mentor and coworkers knew I would have down time, provided me with fun, simple reading--scientific research papers to be exact. I had the chance to leisurely peruse through several of these papers (each of which made up a hefty stapled packet) that talked about neuropsychological studies conducted on children. Most were written or cowritten by one of the people I worked with my project on, Erik Newman, a postdoctoral fellow. From what I read, they were very intriguing and definitely really interesting stuff, but even Erik expressed that he was pained to have to read research papers, or try and write them, at times. What usually caught my attention was the Introduction, which, if you remember Brandon's class, tells you everything. After that, I usually skipped to the Results because that told me what all the other stuff in between actually meant and what purpose it might serve.

When I finally was set up to create the emotional/social test for the upcoming research study with Erik and Connor, I actually went online and tried to find some research studies on previous tests that were similar or had results that pertained to emotional/social development in children. I found a great study conducted in France and I actually read through almost the whole thing, especially since I wanted to know the Procedures because they could help out with the test we had to compose. It was, once again, very intriguing.

My reading attention (as it could be called) has been caught by psychology lately, purely because of the fact that my Internship was all about psychology. Alas, another sign that shows just how much internship messes with your life...of course, that's a good thing said with unintended negative connotations.

However, fear not! I shall READ ON!!!