#dreamsnotcometrue

I have this fetish dream being a neuroscientist. It started when i’m in my second year of senior high school. Partly because i was enjoy studying biology (and did pretty good at it) and mainly because of this japanese drama about crime and lie-testing through neuroscience. 

The genre of that drama is science-fiction, supported by fMRI machine that can detect any changes of the brain. The story mostly tell about memory of the crime-site and its relation to hippocampus (somewhere in our brain that process memory), became my favorite part of the brain since then. A-highschool-me thought by mastering neuroscience someone would conquer the world. Hahaha

In highschool, i also did some self-study everything related to neuroscience : the basic to the advance, the history even about education and jobs. Sadly in Indonesia, there’s no university offered major in neuroscience for undergraduate. So the alternatives are medicine, psychology or biology. Then i made a decision, i would go to medicine school (as it is the closest way if i want to continue my study in neuroscience later).

Then the heartbreak comes, i was rejected by this one university when applying for medicine. Okay maybe this is not the right path for me, i thought. The dream was so unrealistic, i might say. So i applied for another major at another university (that i never even think of applying there before) and here i am studying engineering.

I never once thought that i would continue or at least closing the gap to my long-ago dream until this phrase come up, neuromarketing. Yep it is a combination of neuroscience and marketing that forms the art of marketing through our natural brain reactions. I am not really sure if i can pursue (again) my dream of becoming neuroscientist but i’m quite happy to be back learning (some of) neuroscience. Hahaha.

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Wida Rahmasari

Home, July 16th 2015.