Measure Twice, Cut Once

With two weeks left until the poster session, my project is finally starting to come together. I will definitely be working overtime to make sure that everything is completed in time.

As far as my project goes, I’ve improved quite significantly at using MATLAB, so things are going much more smoothly. I still find that, due to my inexperience, I lack necessary foresight to avoid making mistakes. At times, it feels like after taking two steps forward, I take one step back. Although this can be frustrating, it truly is the best way to become familiar with the programming language, and the field itself. This foresight only comes with experience, as evidenced by the progress I’ve made in just six weeks.

In addition to working with MATLAB, for the past few weeks I have been reading through neurobiology and neuroengineering textbooks, to obtain a deeper understanding of the evolution and fundamentals of the field. It’s interesting to see how improvements in technology have paralleled our ability to record activity from the brain, exemplifying the idea that many fields of science inform and develop each other.

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