Northeast Rockin’

So I’m back at Yale for part of the summer. I’ve been here just over a week and I love it. This is by far the best working environment I’ve ever been in. It’s amazing what a difference the work environment makes on productivity, not to mention the entire sleeping through the night thing. All and all I have to say working here is a good reminder of the type of work environments that benefit productivity and morale versus the last one that made me miserable.

So I’ve been here a week. I’ve written two programs for analyzing ERP data, run two sets of data from start to finish through SAS, written routines for analyzing ERP data in SAS, written four experiments in E-PRIME, worked with electronics I’ve never seen before, watched four movies, and read nearly 200 pages of various books. By the end of the week I will have started running participants in two of those four experiments, and wired the electronics for one other experiment. Best of all, I don’t have anyone asking me to replace the toner cartridge in the printer or insulting me for not dropping everything I’m currently working on to do something that they could easily do by reading the manual.

All and all, life is pretty friggin’ sweet. For instance, in a couple of minutes I’m planning to go downstairs and peddle a bike for the better part of an hour while simultaneously reading and listening to music. That’s right, triple tasking.