User talk:Serpentnirvana

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Infrared sensing in snakes
Very nice article. It doesn't look like your run-of-the-mill amateur contribution either. What's your background, and are you planning on making any more such contributions? (PS -- Please answer here, as I've temporarily added your talk page to my watchlist). --Jwinius 01:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jwinius,

Thanks! To be honest, this was actually a class assignment (college) -- part of the neuroethology project of Cornell's neuroethology class. (If I was more Wikipedia savvy I could link to the project page, but alas I'm not that knowledgeable yet.) I definitely enjoyed writing it though, and I might write some other herp-related articles in the future ... (Not sure yet -- I'm reluctant to get too "addicted" to Wikipedia, ha ha.) I'm actually going to update it right now based on some suggestions of my professor, so I hope that now the article will be even better and more accurate. Serpentnirvana 20:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Aha, you were driven by your professor to do this! Excellent class project. Sometimes I wish I had a professor looking over my shoulder; I could have figured out a lot of things a lot sooner. Consider yourself very lucky. But it's not so much about how knowledgable you are about the subject: it's more about what kind of information you have access to and how disciplined and systematic you are in applying yourself. It's more work, I know, but you learn more in the process and feel a lot better about the results. Oh, and Wiki(pedia) addiction is real; if I had spent even half as much time studying during the past 20 months, I would have passed several extra much needed exams by now, so be careful. --Jwinius 22:57, 3 December 2007 (UTC)