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"It is a popular myth that the left hemisphere is the exclusive location of logical thinking and the right hemisphere the exclusive location of creative thinking. However, most neuroscientists agree that complex functions (reading, creating art, mathematics, music, etc) involve both hemispheres. They believe that labeling people as "left-brained" because they are logical thinkers and "right-brained" because they are creative thinkers does not correspond to the way the brain's hemispheres actually work. Such complex thinking is the outcome of communication between both sides of the brain."
~J. Santrock

Hi there! I'm a first-generation adult college student. I returned to school after leaving the dead-end pizzeria industry behind me forever. I now hold an Associate of Arts degree in social sciences, and am working toward a double-major BA in Psychology and Art Education. I transfered to CSUB from Oakland because I'm insane. ;) (Actually, I'm told that the "insane" part lies in my liking Bakersfield.)

Aside from being a student, I am an artist, a pet owner, an unemployed Instructional Assistant, a Democrat, a bookworm, an INFJ, an Owl, an Ox, an Ophiuchus, and a skeptic.

Ich spreche Deutsch.

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
~Agnes De Mille

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
~Sir Winston Churchill

"It's better to do what you think is right and end up being wrong, than to do what you believe is wrong and find out you were right."
~Joseph Steinke

"Only in art does a man consumed by desires performs something resembling accomplishment of those desires, and (his) play produces emotional effects - thanks to artistic illusion - just as though it were something real."
~Sigmund Freud

"In environments which are potentially lethal to the cell, an amoeba may become dormant by forming itself into a ball and secreting a protective membrane to become a microbial cyst. The cell remains in this state until it encounters more favourable conditions. While in cyst form the amoeba will not replicate and may die if unable to emerge for a lengthy period of time."
~Wikipedia