User talk:Serpentnirvana

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Hello, Serpentnirvana, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! --Jwinius 01:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Infrared sensing in snakes

Very nice article. It doesn't look like your run-of-the-mill amateur contribution either. What's your background, and are you planning on making any more such contributions? (PS -- Please answer here, as I've temporarily added your talk page to my watchlist). --Jwinius 01:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jwinius,

Thanks! To be honest, this was actually a class assignment (college) -- part of the neuroethology project of Cornell's neuroethology class. (If I was more Wikipedia savvy I could link to the project page, but alas I'm not that knowledgeable yet.) I definitely enjoyed writing it though, and I might write some other herp-related articles in the future ... (Not sure yet -- I'm reluctant to get too "addicted" to Wikipedia, ha ha.) I'm actually going to update it right now based on some suggestions of my professor, so I hope that now the article will be even better and more accurate. Serpentnirvana 20:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Aha, you were driven by your professor to do this! Excellent class project. Sometimes I wish I had a professor looking over my shoulder; I could have figured out a lot of things a lot sooner. Consider yourself very lucky. But it's not so much about how knowledgable you are about the subject: it's more about what kind of information you have access to and how disciplined and systematic you are in applying yourself. It's more work, I know, but you learn more in the process and feel a lot better about the results. Oh, and Wiki(pedia) addiction is real; if I had spent even half as much time studying during the past 20 months, I would have passed several extra much needed exams by now, so be careful. --Jwinius 22:57, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Updated DYK query On 6 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Infrared sensing in snakes, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 17:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)