Just found this site earlier today before classes and thought I would drop in and introduce myself. I am a 26 year old student finishing my first half of pre-pharmacy requirements. I have always been very interested in how the brain works and functions, and think this site is perfect for me. My ideal choices in life on things to do for a living would be neurobiology of some sort. When I decided to become a pharmacist last year, and learned of fellowships, I decided the best course for me would to aim for a career in Neuropharmaceutical research.

A bit about myself:

My name is Daniel, I am a transhumanist with relatively healthy degree of optimism. I only very recently started this whole "school" thing about a year ago. My life in high school was unremarkable- 2.2 G.P.A or so, and lots of, uh, experimentations with recreational pharmaceuticals, though I never dreamed I would become a pharmacist myself, LOL. Oh how times have changed.

About two years ago I quit smoking (ciggaretes, quite smoking or doing anything illegal more than 5 years ago, only a high school thing I assure you all), and once I quit that I decided to better myself, I started lifting weights and running. Did bodybuilding for a bit, and then powerlifting, and now I just lift weights, do plyometric work, run and basically work out for health reasons rather than athletic. (train for martial arts mostly, more explosive lifts, etc)

A year ago I decided to go to school for Physical Therapy, but halfway through the semester I decided I might as well go an extra year or two and get a job that pays much more- Pharmacy. After working in a Pharmacy and realizing that I could go from PharmD to Research with a saftey-net of 75G's to fall back on, I decided to follow my dream of research. Neuropharmaceutical research, specifically Nootropics.

I think the future is more in Mind-machine interfaces, but again I feel that is quite some time in the future, and a good stepping stone for us that will carry on is pharmeceuticals. I want to help pave the way to the future, and hopefully enhance my own memory as well.

It is hard for this old stoner, I have to climb many walls, many of which were caused by my incompetance as a teenager, killing drugs, hindering neurological development, and just not caring. With what I have learned in the last two years or so about neurological development, I think that I stand a chance, even at my age I can change the way I think, enchancing myself until drugs can help me with it. At least until memory storage devices that implant to your nervous system come about.

Oh, I ordered some L-Arginine-Ornithine, Vinpocetine, and some Choline Cocktail to experiment with, perhaps it will assist me in my endevors, any thoughts?

Oh, I am also Epimetheus on several other boards, but chose to pick Prometheus on this one, since I hope to change my "hindsight" into "foresight". A bit more optimism I suppose.

and "killing drugs" should read "killing brain cells with drugs."

hello there, and welcome, Prometheus!

Thank you so much for joining us, Prometheus (and also thanks for that little business with fire; we appreciate that too), we are so much the better and the richer for your having come to be among us here.

Should you have a spare moment and care to read some sonnets, come visit the poetry board where I make my home.

Welcome among us.

We are in unbreakable solidarity here, all of us always.

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

i'd recommend vasopressin, piracetam, hydergine, l-deprenyl, and acetyl-l-carnitine