 My name is Brett, I'm a research master's student here, yeah, I'm in the social psychology tract. I came from the United States to come to Tilburg and in the United States I studied social psychology and philosophy at Bradley University in Illinois, I'm from Chicago-ish. So far I'm really enjoying my experience. I've had a lot of good experience, I've had a lot of good talks, I've learned a lot of interesting things, which is why I'm here, so that's good. And yeah, things are going really well, I've had some great classes, I had one on interpersonal behavior where I learned about cooperation and getting along and how people act in social situations and all these different sorts of interpersonal behavior things. Then I had a class on social networks, which was a lot about social capital which is this unit which is a huge debate, but it's basically about how we utilize our networks to get to our own outcomes and how we make friends and why we have friends and all these types of things and this sorts of stuff. Yeah, I'm a multivariate class, I'm in a statistics class that's very interesting, taught by very good professors, all of the classes are taught by great professors. And generally there's even two professors per class, so we have at most 12 in our classes because there's 12 across three different majors. Those majors being organization studies, sociology, and social psychology, so there's about four from each minor which is really nice because it adds to the discussion. We have philosophers, we have social psychologists, we have sociologists, and they add nice things to the conversation, so it's really good. But we have all of these different classes, so I have statistics, sociology, psychology. This semester I have a social psychology course, I have an organizations and theory course and then I have more statistics as I roll my eyes, but it's worth it, it's really nice stuff and you learn a lot and it's really fun. But back to the professors, so the professors are really high quality and we have at most 12 students in our classes and it's generally two professors per class, so it's a one to six at most ratio which is really great because you don't get that at most universities to be honest. It's even one to three in my minor so we have two professors and six students in the classes where we're learning about behavioral decision making and it's all about what things lead us to make the decisions that we make, whether we're maximizing utility or whether we want to use our emotions in our decisions or whether it's all homo economic is based. Yeah, it's really nice. Each Friday they have a colloquia that the whole department goes to and then they have an outside speaker come and give talks and you know you go and you talk to people from the U.S. or from Germany or from Asia, wherever they're from you know there's just tons of all these great thinkers that come here. You do other stuff too. You know you try to get to know the department so you do these internships so you work with people on their stuff that they want to work on. So right now I'm working with two professors and one name is Travis Perule and the other one is Yola Mbar. I'm also working with Hans Ironman a little bit but Travis basically they're all really pretty cutting edge in their field to be honest they're cutting edge and yeah we're I'm working with them and I'm having one-on-one discussions with them and I sit with them for like you know hours and we could talk about ideas and then we go out and get a beer and then talk about ideas and it's just really nice and fun and exciting and it's a good culture. The Research Master program is really nice. You learn a lot of fantastic things. You meet a lot of people who are very smart and very good in their field and really want to help you do the things that you want to do. And so you come here and you say I want to run a project or I have an idea and they listen and they say that sounds freaking awesome so let's do that. And they give you the money and the tools that you need to do it so that's really nice.