Hello there,
My name is Isha, and this is my (we)blog. It’s new.
So yeah, here I am. Ready to share my life experiences with the world. This is gonna be AWESOME.
Right now, I am a second-year at Quest University Canada. Quest is a brand new university in Squamish, British Columbia…Canada. I am super stoked to be here, because 1) it’s one of the most beautiful places of all time and 2) this school is changing post-secondary education. It’s Canada’s first private university, and it runs on the block schedule, like Colorado College in…Colorado. So instead of taking a bunch of classes at once, I take one class for 3.5 weeks, have a 4-day block break, and start over with another subject. This block break, I’m totally hitting up Tofino with the Adventure Club for some cold, wet surfing. I’m so very excited.
Right now, I’m in Musical Neuroscience. It is kind of insane, in a good way. I’m learning all about the brain and its relationship with music. Like how music affects emotions, how music affects motor skills, how musicians’ brains differ from “non-musicians’” brains, how music evolved, how the brain evolved, how we humans evolved, all in relation to music. It’s a relatively new field, which makes it even more exciting! So the research isn’t as extensive, but the research they have done so far is pretty legit.
As a class project we had to conduct experiments, so my classmate Olivia and I decided to measure how different genres of music affect reactions. It was pretty interesting stuff. But now, I’m working on a paper that discusses the relationship between music and language, and how to tell which manifested first in humans. And by working on a paper, I mean seriously neglecting a paper. I enjoy it and all, but the sunshine is just too good to pass up. Especially since it could be the last day of sunshine for some time.
Squamish is rainy. Very, very rainy. That’s what I get for living in the Pacific Northwest-ish area, hey? It’s beautiful, but makes it exceptionally hard to wake up for a 9 o’clock class. Especially coming from Denver, which gets about… 300 days of sun? Yikes.
Super stoked about school, surfing, and sun. Gonna go catch the fleeting rays!
BLAWGGIN,
Isha
