Hahns of A&H

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Some News!

Today Carleton is hosting the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference. Carleton hosts it every 10 or so years, so I feel pretty lucky to have been there today and to have had the chance to volunteer and to see some of the posters and presentations. The key note speaker, Dan Simons, was definitely my favorite talk of the day! His current institutional affiliation is the University of Illinois, but he was a Carleton alum! So, he did the MUPC twice as a Carleton undergrad! Anyway, I told a few people -- Dad, Jim, and Tony about how cool his talk was! Instead of saying anymore about it, I thought I'd show you some of the clips he showed us during his presentation.

I was cracking up for like 20 minutes after the second video! How can you not realize that?! There are also a bunch of studies where a participant will come in and they will be handed the consent form by someone on the other side of a counter and then that person will bend down to get something and a different person (of the same gender) will stand back up. A majority of the time people didn't even notice!

The talk was wonderful and got me really excited about senior comps, which we've already begun! My friend, Cari, and I will be doing our comps together, but instead of doing a "library comps" which is essentially a research paper, and instead of creating and executing an empirical study, we are going to create a 300 level psychology course. We'll still have the opportunity to learn about a topic that interests, but we'll be presenting it in a way that is not just a standard research paper! And it will work really well with my Ed Studies concentration! And instead of a normal presentation, we will hold a class session as our way of presenting comps! That's enough about psychology.

What has everyone else been up to lately?

Sunday, March 20, 2011

What, no news?!?

Ok people. What's the deal? No one has news. All right, I'll go first:

- Ran 10 miles just now. Fixing on doing a marathon in Duluth in June.

-Well, that will happen after I get back from Australia in May

-I'll be in Australia for two weeks re: a conference and vacation.

-Next week I'm driving Tina Jr. back to Northfield, MN. Because I have a new car -- it is a Prius hybrid -- the most advanced car on the road.

-After I get back from dropping off Tina, I'll be in Philadelphia and Boston for the April 1 holiday.

-Then Tony and I and maybe Tom will be in New Orleans for a library conference, also in June.

Well, that's all I got.

- Jim

Urbana, IL

p.s. - well, also the iPhone book is out now. I just pitched another one about free apps, maybe I'll start writing after the marathon, if it gets commissioned and all. In the meanwhile there are three articles I'm finishing up before I leave for vacation.