First blog-message

Hey, this is my first blog-message. Because my story about my background is too long to post it in my profile, I decided to post it in the first message...

Starting in my early childhood, I was fascinated at assambling (ie: dismantle/cannibalize) apparatus and making wooden objects, like a carpenter. This drive 'forced' me to do the technical courses in secondary education.
In secondary education I got fascinated about ICT (especially assambling and programming) which is still a big leisure activity of my (so, if you need a specialised program or website, please contact me! I'm doing it at voluntary base, but still in my spare-time...). So I visited a lot of technical bachelorprogrammes (such as 'interior design', 'architecture', 'ICT', 'bioengineering' and 'mechanical engineering'), in order to make a choice about my follow-up study.
Accidently, it happened that I visited a presentation about Psychology. After I learned that Psychology is more than 'Freud' and 'crazy people' (the prejudice about psychology from many people, and also of my before that day), i got fascinated about brainscanning technologies, which made me decide to subscribe at Maastricht University (UM), at the Faculty of Psychology (nowadays: 'Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience') which has his own f-MRI-scanner!
Within my study Psychology, I got involved in the faculty-board as studentmember. Because of this involvement, I learned a lot about Problem Based Learning, which is the basic learning approach at UM, and its 'practical problems'.
As an 'almost-psychologist' I got interested in this learning approach and its theory of learning behind it. Because of this, I shifted my bachelorstudy towards the (learning-)cognitions (i.e. information-processing, retention and retreival, motivation, etc.), and wrote my thesis on student-motivation in PBL.

In my last year as bachelor-student, I decided that I wanted to follow a Masterstudy related to education. In my search for the best fitting psychology-Master in this topic, I found the Master-specialisation 'learning science' at the behaverioul-department at the Univeristy of Twente (uT).
After a brief talk with the student-advisor about my wishes (i.e. improving curriculum, especially the PBL-curriculum), she advised me to visit the Master-Program 'Educational Science & Technology' at the same department. After visiting the open day at the faculty, I became really enthousiastic about this program, and especially the specialisation "Curriculum Instruction and Media Applications". And that's way I ended up here, end 'til sofar, I do not regret it...