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@tjnguyen
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 • 4 years ago •
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Want to start a passion project but don't know how...
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Hi, I am a 10th grader in Monterey. My goals are to go into pre-med and study either Neurobiology or Biology. I want to start looking into doing a passion project, but I don't know where to start or even how. Having a fascination with how the brain works, I hope to pursue a project involving that and something including music, books, sports (tennis), or photography. How should I go about starting one?

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@amy45339
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 • 4 years ago

If you’re dual enrolled, you can approach one of your professors to ask if they’d be interested in helping you do a research project on a topic on how music/sports/ etc changes brain chemistry or something like that.

If not, you can always find a summer program that allows you to delve into a subject that you’re interested in (like Wakeforest summer immersion, Horizon Inspires, etc tho they cost $$$)

Or you could take an Edx/ Coursera course online in neuroscience and use the info you learn to start your own music thing. (For example, there are different frequencies that the brain responds to and you could use info that to make innovative music, idk??)

Go crazy with it

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[🎤 AUTHOR]@tjnguyen4 years ago [edited]

If I take a Edx course on neuroscience do you think it would also be beneficial if I pay for a certificate as well? I feel like it might not make that much of a difference since I am still learning the same thing, but I don’t know.

@amy453394 years ago

I wouldn’t pay for it since you’re learning the same thing. The fact that you’re utilizing the knowledge from the course for a project should be evidence enough that you took the class. I’m currently taking bioethics in manga with EDx and it sparked an interest for me in medical writing / art! I might do a short story or comic that is STEM based my senior year which proves I actually learned from the class.

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@Amorae
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 • 4 years ago

Well I suggest trying out getting your teachers to help spread word of an activity to see if anyone else is interested. If you have enough people you could go ahead and try to start a club that inputs your ideas and this could bean extracurricular for you plus you develop leadership skills in the process. you could create like a research group and make it fun :)

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