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Unless your university has a neuroscience major, your best bet is to find something close enough, make sure any special projects (like a thesis) are done on neuroscience, research as much as you can in the field, read books and articles on related topics you're interested in, and try to get into...

Cognitive Neuroscience looks more at the brain, at the biological level for things like memory and emotion, and kind of how that connects to the mind and behavior. Try wikipedia for a more basic overview, and I'd also recommend this site: http://www.mind.duke.edu/. Also, try these sites (you...

I adore online courses. I love the breadth, the freedom, the cost, the ability to just drop out when I get bored with absolutely no consequences, and more. I probably spend most of my free time doing these courses, and I'm in college taking regular classes too. I'm probably on coursera the most...

The Pimsleur series is a pretty good starting point to help you start conversing. On the topic of studying multiple languages, are you planning on laddering them? (i.e. natural language to English, English to German, German to ?) That method generally produces the best results and keeps you...

I've heard Icelandic is hard because of its archaic vocabulary and complex grammar, and how its phonemes don't have exact English equivalents. But I doubt many schools offer Icelandic. Personally, I enjoy Arabic. It's rich, it's complex, it's beautiful, (it's even useful in today's world), and...

Cognitive Neuroscience is a field that often incorporates psychology and neuroscience. It's like the hard(er) science version of psychology. If you're interested in how minds work, but not too interested in dealing with people, that might be a good fit. Have you ever taken a psychology course...

Try these (some cover the basics, some are more advanced, and this is just brushing the surface of all the free resources available): www.udacity.org (I like this one best for cs) www.coursera.org http://www.saylor.org/majors/computer-science/ www.edx.org www.codeacademy.com www.khanacademy.org...

~+1: ... you tell people that the main reason you're taking classes in anthropology and psychology is an attempt to understand the humans around you, and they back away quietly. ~+2: ... you learn about the “participant-observation” methodology in anthropological field research, and realize...