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Every year recent alumni will keep a blog on their whereabouts after their Master in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Lau Møller Andersen and Merel Rijnsburger studied Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience at MBCS and graduated in 2011. A few times a year they will keep us updated about their life and career after graduating.

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Blog - Lau Møller Andersen - May 2012

I am going through some busy and exciting days these days – we are finishing up the last tests of a big experiment we are running where we are testing correlations between individuals' GABA-levels and their performance measures on tasks involving attentional mechanisms and inhibitory mechanisms

Blog - Merel Rijnsburger - May 2012

Only 2 months back in the low country, it already feels like forever. The first weeks I had a very hard time getting back here mentally. I missed Paris terribly.

Blog - Lau Møller Andersen - Februari 2012

At the moment of writing, I have just returned from a vacation in Israel. I visited friends that I met during my stay in Amsterdam – this exemplifies an advantage of doing an international master's degree.

Blog - Merel Rijnsburger - February 2012

Yes it’s still in French; I just started my last month of research in Paris. Things are still going pretty well, despite the stabilization of my ôrrible French, the deterioration of my English and an enormous uninterpretable dataset, but that’s life!

Blog - Lau Møller Andersen - November 2011

Life has been busy since I finished two great years of my life in the beautiful port of Amsterdam. I now live in Aarhus, Denmark, where I did my bachelor studies.

Blog - Merel Rijnsburger - November 2011

I’m very pleased to write a blog for you about my, still short, life after graduating from my master Brain and Cognitive Sciences. When I started the master I didn’t know what to expect of research at all.

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Blog - Barbara Braams - April 2011

“Great that you are all here! Welcome to the first part of the BrainTime research project that you are all participating in.” I’m at a high school near Leiden, and in front of me are 24 slightly excited children. “We’ll be doing some questionnaires and then some games today.

Blog - Gunes Kantaroglu - April 2011

It has been some time since I wrote anything here. I started working in February which kept me incredibly busy until now. I have been commuting to Utrecht everyday and having to wake up very early in the morning.

Blog - Barbara Braams - February 2011

My last blog ended stating that I was curious where I would end up job wise. I had been looking around for different kinds of jobs, but decided that my heart lies with research and that I want to do a PhD. In my search for a PhD I found out that there are so many choices to make, which is on the one hand very liberating, but on the other hand quite daunting.

Blog - Gunes Kantaroglu - November 2010

I feel like there is a dividing line between my life before and after CSCA. Before graduation, I had rather mixed expectations about what would happen after my master’s. Would I do a PhD? Or would I get an ordinary job? And what kind of an ordinary job could I possibly do? Would anyone hire me?

Blog - Barbara Braams - November 2010

Great that you’ve found the way to my blog. Here I will keep you updated on my whereabouts as a recent graduate of the Brain and Cognitive Science master. First, let me tell you a little bit about who I am. I started my studies in Groningen where I have done a bachelors in Psychology. Wanting to specialize a bit more in the brain, I went on to do the cognitive neuroscience track of the B&CS master.

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