<p>@him
It’s basically a likely letter of LAC’s</p>
<p>i always wondered how did you show interest in the college, as the CC seniors peeps say to the newbies. so i sent it 2 extra essays, 1 extra LOR to Dartmouth!
hope this seems showing interest in them.</p>
<p>2 extra essays?? Woah!!</p>
<p>@Rew
Wow, 2 extra essays?! I suppose that shows interest… if I was them I’d be irritated though xP But then again this is coming from someone who tries not to read :P</p>
<p>@Boss
As much as it would help for all the FA guys… for me I hope the fact that I can pay for my college experience will help (even if they are needs blind)… I want at least one Ivy xP (preferably Princeton though… but Dartmouth is definitely up there!) :P</p>
<p>@MRU, if you “try not to read,” why are you applying to top schools? I don’t mean to be rude, but… what?</p>
<p>@Stupiddorkyidiot
Haha, I completely understand your point… let me rephrase that… I don’t like reading essays, stories. I love learning and will read for that.</p>
<p>I actually find that if I start reading I either don’t get caught soon enough… or I can’t put the book down… but I have activities that I prefer far more that unfortunately interrupt my reading… which also makes it less pleasant for me.</p>
<p>I try not read too much; so with CC if I have missed a few days I skim most things for interesting info, otherwise I basically get to the end without really reading or taking anything in.</p>
<p>The top schools doesn’t require that you enjoy reading, it requires the ambition to work hard and do your best. I’ve gotten through school reading info online every now and again, but paying attention to what is going on (and understanding what I need). </p>
<p>Hope that helped answer your question? Sorry for the long winded answer</p>
<p>@lboss what’s a LAC?</p>
<p>Liberal arts college</p>
<p>Oh thanks. Feel so stupid now :P</p>
<p>@MRU, haha yes, I get it. I just hate when people say things like “ugh I hate books” or whatever… You know what I mean. :p</p>
<p>@Stupiddorkyidiot
I don’t hate books luckily 
In fact I’d love to try compile a good home library one day xP (and hopefully with books I will and enjoy reading xP ). You know; dark wood shelves, a couple leather bounds, leather arm chair and a glass of whiskey or something similar :P</p>
<p>Your username makes me feel bad whenever I write it down! haha, I feel like I am insulting someone xP</p>
<p>Lol, I know, it’s a terrible username. I actually had no idea I even had this account until I tried to sign up for CC last spring and discovered there was already an account attached to my email… So I was stuck with it. But I’d say it pretty much fits me. :p</p>
<p>haha, it is cool… just hate typing to you… I want to shorten it but saying: “Hey Stupid”, “Hey dorky” or “Hey Idiot” really doesn’t seem much better :P</p>
<p>lol. whatever. i couldn’t have shown interest in them using any other means
but i am pretty sure i am bound for rejection. it was a nice ride nonetheless.</p>
<p>IKR? even i want to get into an ivy!
preferably Yale (HIGGGGGGHHHHHH impossible reach).</p>
<p>oh and oh, i have a whole cabinet full of booooooks! 
novels, encyclopedias, neuroscience books and whatnot #randomness
i used to be an avid reader, but then ISC (our school board curriculum) happened.</p>
<p>^dude, story of my life. I keep amassing books in hopes that I can read them over breaks… There’s no way I can get to all of them, which is depressing. </p>
<p>You’re interested in neuroscience - do you read Oliver Sacks? I adore him :3</p>
<p>^ stupiddorkyidiot. (ok, this is embarrassing to say out loud!)
I NOW GIVE YOU THE NAME <em>DRUMROLLS</em> sdorkyi.all hail. lol</p>
<p>IKR? soo many books and so less time to read them :|</p>
<p>i am. nope. never read that.
my uncle is a neurosurgeon (a pretty famous one) so he gives me random book that HE wrote and some more like that. so. i am interested.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I like it. </p>
<p>Sacks is an author! He is (or was) a neurologist at Columbia, and he’s written some fascinating stuff on the subject. Anyway, I’d love to study neuroscience in college… That or physics :)</p>
<p>(Seriously, the number of neuroscience books available for free only is tremendous. My library is stored on dropbox.)</p>
<p>I’ve been looking for living, breathing neuronerds to interact with for a long time. >.></p>
<p>What do you guys know about the job market for neuroscientists? I keep hearing that it’s even crappier than other scientist jobs and thought I might focus on the computational side of the field in order to increase my versatility while also getting my foot in what seems like one of neuroscience’s most promising subfields. >.></p>
<p>^ tbh, I have no idea about job prospects. I’m primarily interested in research and/or med school, but I haven’t yet thought too much about what either of those entails… Especially because I’m not totally set on it. Anyway. Want to recommend me some books? I’m always down for more reading.</p>
<p>Best to get an introduction, first. Purve’s “Neuroscience” is really detailed, but MIT actually uses a less detailed one whose name I can’t remember.</p>
<p>The Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience is very good, but I worry if it’s out of date. It’s good to research each theory you see. Cognition, Brain and Consciousness by Bernard Baars gives you a really interesting grounding in Cognitive Neuroscience, but it’s light in biology. </p>
<p>Damasio’s The Feeling of What Happens (or something) is supposed to be an amazing primer in Affective Neuroscience, but requires some grounding before you tackle it. </p>
<p>I’ve been reading a lot more cognitive science books than neuroscience books lately, though. >.></p>