I will be switching jobs in a week. I'm excited to start at the Cornell Cinema, but there is only one perk that I'll miss at Alumni Affairs: the privileged information. I got to sit in on a private lecture by some Sciences faculty. I learned a little of what they are discovering about the brain. That babies born before their brains have had a chance to fire all the thousands of synapses necessary for proper development may not have neurological deficits if kept in a womblike environment for the rest of their term to prevent overstimulation. And that the Italian language doesn't have the irregularities that French and English have (particularly with rhyming and pronunciation) and so oftentimes Italian dyslexics function normally in their society and don't even discover their dyslexia. I love to learn these fun facts and particularly when they have to do with biopsychology.