Welcome

The first week of my college education is over and it was very interesting but at the same time, raised a few problems I hadn't anticipated.

For example, the issue of time management .
Learning about 50 hours a week is difficult and real time consuming.  I found myself struggling to find time during the day to eat, and when I arrived home, I always found myself busy until after midnight, knowing that I need to wake up the next day at 6:00AM.  This weekend I realized I need a good time management plan so I could sleep, eat & study well without any pressure.

The food is another problem I encountered this week.
Apparently, one sandwich for 8 hours just isn't enough.  I was hungry the whole week, and even lost about 2Kg this week for not eating correctly.
In terms of food, my plan for the coming week is to have a good breakfast in the morning, 3 sandwiches during the day and healthy dinner with meat and a salad for dinner.  Hopefully this diet will give me all the energy I need to be able to concentrate up to 12 hours a day in lectures.

The first semester of a Brain Science Freshman's year consists of introductory courses in: Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, Programming, Philosophy, and Brain Science.  Of course there's also a number of mathematics courses at a much higher level then what is taught in high-school.

It was very interesting to learn this week how the brain developed and why  it developed in the head?  If the brain is so important it should have been kept somewhere safer than the head, just as the heart is kept safe under the ribs.  It turned out that the brain actually developed in the head because ancient marine organisms developed sensor cells at the front of their body to know what is ahead of them, food or danger, so they could act.  In evolution, those cells developed to be the brain we all have in our head.

Take Off

The last day of vacation is over and tomorrow I start a new part of my life.
Tomorrow I start my college education at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel, as a Brain Science student.


I am ready for studying! I've bought myself a new backpack, 12 notebooks, a calendar, and set a side half a dozen pens.  This year I will be studying introductory courses in a number of disciplines, including Math, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Linguistics and Brain Science.  All these introductory courses are to give the basic knowledge in order to really start studying about the human brain in the second year.

Although I'm expecting a difficult year, I hope I'll enjoy the complexity of the studies and the variety of disciplines.

It's quite ironic that my first day of college is on my 22nd birthday.  I hope that is a good sign.