My Capstone Experience

I am very glad that I was able to take NeuroChem as my capstone course because I feel that it was one of the only capstones that I wouldn’t have any trouble being interested in.  After hearing from friends how the class was structured I thought that it sounded interesting to be able to learn about a new neurological disease every week.  Now after having completed the class I found it to be rather enjoyable and successful as a capstone experience.  I found that every week I was looking forward to our new research articles and learning how these different neurological diseases work and possible ways that they can be treated.  I felt the our class was a great class because we had a nice wide range of disciplines in the class with chem majors, bio majors, and some psych majors all  able to contribute their own unique knowledge base and way of thinking.  All our points of view put together allowed me to look at these diseases in different ways that I wouldn’t have before.  I also felt that I was able to bring in the knowledge that I have accumulated from my biology and chemistry background allowing me to better understand the chemical pathways of these diseases.  I also found that after taking this class I better understand the breadth and severity of some of the different ailments that face millions of people and actually found that in a lot of cases if people knew more about these ailments that they could maybe be prevented or hopefully further studied in order to find potential treatments.  I would for sure recommend this class to anyone interested in science, medicine or the brain to take this class as their capstone course because I really did learn a lot about different neurological diseases but I also learned how to read through difficult material and get the most information out of it that I could in order to understand the pathway of the diseases we went through the class.