Today is the first at Stanford. In the morning, we attended a
neuroscience class. It was our first time to be introduced to this specific
field in Biology to study the brains and nervous systems of organisms. We saw
transparent brains and we find that very amusing. The class was very
interactive, we not only learned how the neutrons work by playing games such as
the two point discrimination task, we had also looked at a real cleaned sample
of mice brain. Our lecturer also pointed out that neurons is not only the only
thing in the nervous system and reminded us not to forget the cell structure
and environment.
In the afternoon, we took a Math class. It
was not the Math that we usually learn at school like solving problems
mathematically with pen and paper, instead, it was about dynamic and static game
theory. We played a game about prisoners’ dilemma. We learned through actually playing the games
and exploring the theories by ourselves. With multiple trials, we slowly
grasped the theory and manage to use the theory to try to win the game. It was
indeed very fun and amusing.
Then, we got a chance to visit the
Stanford bookstore and bought some souvenirs such as Stanford t-shirts and cups
etc. We had a great time! We also had
lots of personal time to play games in the common room, we bonded quickly and
our friendship has definitely strengthened just within three days.
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