I finally had my intership interview on Monday. Basically these interviews for most kids are more like meetings with your future boss to arrange details like hours and attire and to give you an overview of what you will be doing day to day. Some companies carryout really intense interviews and actually turn kids down from the job. Mine was pretty much in the middle, some tough questions but overall not too bad. For being bad at talking and pretty awkward in general I am a surprisingly good interviewer! Anywho after we marched past my examples of leadership and strengths and dumb weakness that are secret strengths my interviewer went on to describe what they would like me to do. This is when things got a little fishy..see apparently my 'expertise in statistical analysis' has lead them to believe I will be a great person to spearhead the analysis of results and help design software behind some program they are developing. I don't even understand what that means...but no fear they are willing to do 'a bit of training'. I am going to die.
The overall thing is cool. Basically the school of psychology here is trying to design a software or at least a method for predicting the possibility that someone will have a strong placebo effect in clinical drug trials. They are predicting that certain physiological effect how people respond to placebos. The software they design will hopefully help researchers distribute people that are more likely to have a strong placebo effect in the control and experimental arms of the study. This will help reduce the number of drugs that fail FDA testing because they do not significantly out preform placebos. Super interesting but not exactly what I am studying..at all.
Besides internship drama life is good. We actually have a lot of school work right now so back to the stressful student life boo. Today though we had a field trip in the morning. We first went to a museum all about war and imprisonment..which was interesting because we have spent a lot of time focusing on how the Irish historically haven't fought in many wars...not exactly what I learned today.
Afterrr that we went to St. Michan's church. The church is famous because of these burial vaults under the building. Something about the air pressure and temperature has deteriorated the wood of the coffins and mummified the bodies. So basically we crawled in creepy dungeons and looked at corpses...and by looked I mean touched. Yes, like everything in Ireland if you touched them you got good luck. Actually you had to shake the dead crusaders hand. It was gross.
Creepy
Dungeony
Corpse
The one in the back is the lucky one.
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