I attended UIUC 1996 to 2001 (I went pre-med the last semester of my junior year, and had to stay an extra year). The most valuable aspect of my education in the psychology department was the tremendous variety of courses available. I focused primarily on neuroscience but took some courses in abnormal psychology, child psych, and special needs populations as well, and spent a year and a half in the psychology paraprofessionals program. I worked for 3 years in Dr Jeff Mogil's pain and pharmacogenetics lab and completed an honors thesis (we recently re-connected over coffee at a conference in...