This will be my temporary residence next year.

Way up on the third floor of this building is a tiny space (300 sq. ft.) that will be mine... if I make it up the stairs. It is just over a block from Harvard Square and about 6 blocks from the Ed School.

My address is 22 Prescott Street #12
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: jhb050@mail.harvard.edu

The Description of My Program

This is the description of my program from the Harvard MBE web site:

Mind, Brain and Education

Graduate School of Education: mbe

Full Year 2008

The master's program in Mind, Brain, and Education is designed for students interested in connecting cognition, neuroscience, and educational practice, especially involving learning, teaching, and cognitive and emotional development. This intersection of biology and cognitive science with pedagogy has become a new focus in education and public policy in the current Age of Biology. Linked to the Harvard Initiative on Mind, Brain, and Behavior (MBB), the program is strongly interdisciplinary, including not only psychology, pedagogy, and neuroscience, but also philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, and other relevant disciplines. The program is designed to be completed in one academic year. Students may focus their work on cognitive neuroscience, learning and instruction, cognitive development, emotional development, learning disabilities, interventions with children, uses of technology for education, diversity in education, or a combination of these topics. Many students emphasize hands-on applications of cognitive principles to relevant practical and research problems, with the intention of promoting a reciprocal integration of research with practice.

Leaving for School Checklist

1.✔Say "good-bye" to everyone I know - at least 3 times.

2. ✔Hide all of my stuff from Bob so that he will not throw it away while I am gone.
Sort-of check.

3. ✔Endure the look of horror from the man at the Mail Boxes counter when he hears that I am going back to school. I choose to believe that he was appalled by the numbers of boxes I was mailing and not that he thought we should be building a coffin with those boxes.

4. ✔✔Burn chicken so that I can freeze portions of chicken noodle soup for Bob to eat while I am away. I can just see him sitting, eating soup and missing me --until he breaks a tooth on charred chicken.

5. ✔Realize that I have teacher clothes and I have more teacher clothes, but I have no clothes that look like a way cool and very learned graduate student.

6. ✔Tell everyone I know that Kyle and Marty at 777-JUNK are my new best friends.

7. ✔Finally....get a hair cut!

8. ✔Make sure Bob has 9 pillows on the bed just like the hotel in OshKosh, Wisconsin. Maybe he will think I am still there and not notice those tuition bills.

9. ✔Hide Bob's iPod docking station in my luggage. He will never notice that it is gone.

10. ✔Actually mail the notes that I have written to our generous friends.
Tomorrow.