I spent April 1st-6th in San Francisco in San Francisco for the annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference. I presented a poster on my first year project on the first day of the conference. The poster was title " Brain Activity During Effortful Auditory Retrieval Differentiates Expert and Non-Expert Athletes". The second day of the conference, the morning poster sessions and symposium were on Vision. As a language person, I don't like reading about vision. It's boring and over done. This seems to be true for most language people. So, everyone in my lab went for a walk down the pier to Fisherman's Wharf and out to Fort Mason to take pictures of the Golden Gate bridge. The last pictures if of the other graduate students in the lab. They are :(from left to right) Aurora, Kailyn, Pilar and Goga. Aurora and Kailyn are the two other first year graduate students and I adore them both. I am currently the youngest in the lab by 3 years. It makes me the entertaining one as I tend to do rather immature things in comparison but we all have fun.
The evening before we ate dinner in China town with our advisor, Arturo and two other international researchers. We ate in China town a second time with our advisor towards the end of the trip with more professors. It's quite awkward to see them in both an academic setting and then in a casual setting where they are kicking back beers and cracking jokes.
The last night, I went to Little Italy for dinner with Aurora, Kailyn and Pilar. Had the best gnocchi since actually being in Italy. We then wandered past Coit Tower to get an amazing view of the city at night before heading to bed and then back to Houston the next morning. It was a fun trip, but four days at a conference is a little too much for me.
Next year, we'll be in Chicago.
