Summer plans

Summer plans Ive spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my moms house in Louisville, Kentucky. Its been great, and I might even have caught up on all the sleep I missed during term (for some reason, while Im on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours even if theres no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but when Im here, I feel deprived if Im not getting at least 9). But tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey. At Newark, I switch planes and fly to Geneva, Switzerland. From Geneva, I take the train to Lausanne, and find the boarding house that Ill be living in for the next two months, for my summer internship at EPFL (the Swiss Institute of Technology). Im working at the Brain Mind Institute, in the Laboratory for Neural Microcircuitry. Ill be helping with the Blue Brain Project, a joint venture between EPFL and IBM to computationally model the mammalian neocortex. Such a model could have huge implications for the field. Ive even heard it compared to the Human Genome Project in its scope and usefulness, and I feel honored to be working on it. Ill be blogging from there, of course, and taking pictures of Switzerland to show you. Dont expect anything too soon, though Ill need a chance to get settled in. :) By the way, Ive discovered that if you read this blog through the Livejournal feed that Riv 07 created, it doesnt automatically show if theres an extended entry. Now, Ive only had two extended entries, ever, but theyve both been recent, so I figured this was worth mentioning.