Snapshots from El, Inc.

Since June...

1. Entered into one of the most rewarding, joy-producing, and growth-inducing relationships of my life: a courtship with Anna Yong, the love of my life. :)
2. Experienced the power of God working through a healthy, Christ and gospel-centered church: Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC.
   
3. Worked 6 weeks in the Lab for Applied Research in Cognition and Human Factors (ARCH Lab) at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, as an APA Summer Science Fellow.
4. Was introduced to the power of Macros and Visual Basic programming in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
   
5. Co-authored an empirical paper on procedural errors with Dr. Raj Ratwani and Dr. Greg Trafton through my APA Summer Science Fellowship.Attended the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Washington, DC.
6. Determined that I want to be a cognitive scientist, committing to acquiring and using a combination of scientific methods to study various aspects of the mind, including language, memory, reasoning, mental representations, and perception (of music, speech, etc.).
7. Identified a number of graduate schools I will want to apply to: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), UT Austin, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champagne), SUNY Buffalo, and SUNY Binghamton.
8. Determined to learn basics of programming. I am now proceeding through CS106A: Programming Methodology with Dr. Mehran Sahami via Stanford's free iTunes U channel.
9. Witnessed the work of God on the U of O campus and in First Baptist and caught a fiery passion to work for the exaltation of Christ on this campus and in this community.
10. Realized that my sister is going to get married very soon (in October!!)
11. Acquired a position in the Bass section of Ozarks Chorale and Chamber Singers. I was previously a Tenor I.
12. Begun work on a Senior Seminar project that is designed to systematically investigate the complex role of working memory in making deductive inferences from prose.
13. Finished learning Claude Debussy's Claire de Lune (more than a year after first picking it up!!!).
14. Had numerous opportunities to share the gospel of Christ, both through word and action.
15. Wrestled with hard questions about suffering, the sovereignty of God, and election, among others, and emerged with a deeper appreciation and love for the mystifying magnificence that is the LORD God as revealed in the Scriptures.
16. Switched table tennis/ping pong grips from the pen-holder to the handshake.
17. Grown.
18. Loved
19. Lived, with immense gratitude for the blessings that I continue to drown in daily. :)
    

Labels: Appreciation, For the spirit, Musings, News, Snapshots

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