The first I ever heard about the University of Alabama’s Neuroscience program was from a letter a woman I barely knew claimed was mine. This letter (Sent after a 2012 Big 10 Expo) had fallen into the wrong hands, thanks to the mailman and had travelled great distances from mailbox F to mailbox G. Serendipity I thought, after warily accepting my truant mail (lest it was another bill), as said letter offered a unique program tailored to fit my interests before my search for graduate programs in neuroscience ever began.
From my youth (spent on the Caribbean isle of St. Lucia), I was captivated by the macabre, and this disquieting obsession progressed into a slightly less disturbing fascination with abnormal psychology. Many an afternoon