Nicole

Calumet Region Montessori School, Porter Lakes Elementary, Boone Grove High School (a.k.a. Porter Township High School), Northwestern University, UC Berkeley

University of California - Berkeley, Attended 2004 - Present, Ph.D., Human Development and Education
Northwestern University, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, Cognitive Science

Grad Student

purple (in general), indian food, dictionary.com, tetris/dr. mario, office supplies, kite flying, procrastination and self-sabotage, cognitive science, sewing/knitting my own wardrobe, talking to my twin sister on the phone, dancing with strangers, board games (scrabble, taboo, scattergories, cranium, balderdash), ddr, crayons, cooking

David Sedaris, The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities, the Fred and Ted books, An Intimate History of Humanity, Dog Food, Where Mathematics Comes From, Over een kleine mol die wil weten wie er op zijn kop gepoept heeft, Encyclopedia Brown, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, David Lodge, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Crime & Punishment, He's Just Not That Into You

The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Amelie, Office Space, Alice in Wonderland (the Disney cartoon version), Waiting for Guffman, Clue, Fight Club, Napoleon Dynamite

NPR, random songs that bookmark certain times in my life; Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks (especially Blind Melon's "Three"); Christmas carols (why??); Ella Fitzgerald; strings; Angie Aparo; Guster; Eva Cassidy; The Killers; The Dr. Mario Mix; Elton John; Toad the Wet Sprocket; Cheesy European Techno; Norah Jones; Madonna; Pearl Jam; Peter, Paul, and Mary; Maroon 5; Violent Femmes; CAKE; James Taylor; Jim Croce; Monster Ballads; Damien Rice; Mashups; Cornershop; Simon and Garfunkel

When I had real TV: The Food Network, America's Next Top Model, Sopranos, Law & Order (all of them), Myth Busters, Square One

Distractions from grad school, long-lost friends, not-so-long-lost friends, smart people, Midwesterners, the people who make the Google logo look cool on special days