"Thanks to my wonderful experiencing working in a cognition lab senior year, I realized that while I am utterly excited by learning about brain research, working in a lab environment is not a good fit for me. After Dartmouth, I received my masters degree in "Cultural Studies"--another multi-disciplinary field, and did ethnographic fieldwork studying a minority group in Turkey. After my masters degree, I started working in a high school in Istanbul, Turkey, as a college counselor. As an international student applying to colleges in the US, I had thoroughly enjoyed the application process (it was less daunting at the time) and wanted to help students with their college research, applications and be a guide as they try to figure out what is good for them and what they are looking for in their college years. After settling into my profession, which I continue today, I started co-teaching a Neuroscience and Cognition class with a colleague, a science elective for senior students. Many high school students are interested in neuroscience and psychology and it's really fun talking to them about how interdisciplinary this field can be, showing them the different fields that are informed by the scientific discoveries about how the brain works. In this class we talk about the nervous system, attention networks & ADHD (relevant to so many of them), memory, but also look at advancements in artificial intelligence--the things we learn about the brain as AI gets really good at certain things humans can do but performs awfully at other things that come easily to us, and also discuss issues such as free will and its implications on the criminal justice system."