A Week at IGOR

My To-Do List spans the length of football fields.

Well, maybe not, but I still have a lot to cover in the next few days. A lot.

Before I talk about that, though, I want to explain to you exactly what Human Science is, and what a Human Scientist, as I’ve been informed that this blog hasn’t really addressed that. That’s cool, I’m happy to oblige.

To make sure I don’t stray too far from the defined path, here’s what Wikipedia has to say:

“Human science is a term applied to the investigation of human life and human activites via a rational, systmatic, and verifiable methodology that acknowledges the validity of both data derived by impartial observation of sensory experience (objective phenomena) and data derived by means of impartial observation of psychological experience (subjective phenomena). It includes not is not necessarily limited to fields of study commonly included within the social sciences and humanities, including history, sociology, anthropology, and economics.”

If you’re having trouble, which you really shouldn’t be, I’ll suss it out for you. In Human Science, the human brain is not the focus. Instead, the focus is on humans themselves. The human body, the human mind, and the human world. It certainly lives up to its moniker of Human Science.

While the human world may be considered only an extension of our mind and body (and, in reality, it is), it is also a great way to see how humans organise, manage, and process all sorts of information and knowledge, and also to see how we take all of this processed information and knowledge, and turn it into something tangible, such as the economics system, or religion.

Anyway, back to what I actually did on Day 3…

I spent the first hour or so doing a few admin jobs which, again, you don’t really need to hear about. After I’d finished that, I was back onto the anonymous psych report. I made a few changes and corrections, and just about wrapped it up, which is quite a good thing.

After spending a little more time on this blog, and drafting another post which will probably never see the light of day, I realised I should probably get lunch.

What I actually ate was quite good, but the rest of my break was a debacle. I’ll pick up on that in the future, though.

I rocked on in back to the office, and resumed work on the IGOR website, making some more changes to the layout, and nearing completion of the informtion gathering on the page that I’ve been tasked with building. I think I may have to continue this after work experience is finished, which really doesn’t bother me. All the work I’m doing at the moment is stuff that I would be highly interested in carrying on with after my work experience placement finishes.

I’d better stop now, because it appears that I’ve got more work to do, no surprises there, as my to-do list really is quite massive, as I mentioned earlier. I’ve also been thinking about adding some posts in here that aren’t exclusive to my experiences here at IGOR. Posts that discuss different aspects of topics relating to Human Science, and other insightful things.

We shall see.

- Callum