Fly me back...to where my home is?

walter mischel! man...other teenage girls go crazy over pop stars or what not, me? i just get excited over big names like walter mischel! he's one of the two big guys who came up with the social cognitive theory in psych. open a psych book, turn to the social cognitive chapter, and whose name and face do you see? walter mischel! but no...didn't need to do that today, coz the man himself was at cal. gosh, i'm such a nerd. but it was really awesome going to hear him speak...he talked about basically everything that was in my textbook, but wow, to think that everything i was hearing was coming from the source, that was exciting. the room was full of old people (and i mean white hair old!) and grad students. think the undergrads weren't particularly supposed to be there, coz of limited space, but my gsi let slip that it was going to happen, so i turned up anyway. watched a cool video on a study he was doing on delayed gratification in kids, was really cute too. but walter mischel! he reminded me of that star trek guy...what's his name? oh yeah, patrick stewart. it might have something to do with their common lack of hair. yeah...kind of sad, this is the kind of event that makes my day.
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