Dr. Buhusi, the professor I'm hoping to work with, showed me around his lab today. After a year and a half of psychology, it seems I might finally be getting to play with the famous mice and rats that everyone's always asking me about. That's the other thing that people always think about after Freud when I tell them I'm reading psychology. Rats.

I suppose that the two most salient things about them are that they're
a) huge, and
b) smelly

So now, I get to read "Temporal Integration as a Function of Signal and Gap Intensity in Rats and Pigeons" (Journal of Comparative Psychology 2002) and then decide whether I want to work in the lab, or nada.


That twitch you're feeling, by the way, is the tic of the voyeur. Don't try to get rid of it. It's good for you.