Kurt Gray - Harvard Psychology

Biographical Sketch:

     I was born on the West Coast of Canada, and after first living in half a dozen places across the country did most of my schooling in Calgary, Alberta. While there, I picked up the useful skills of skiing, sailing and cold call sales by doing door-to-door canvassing for the local newspaper.

     For my undergrad, I attended the University of Waterloo, where I entered their co-op program in Geophysics. After two years in that program, which included a few months up North driving snowmobiles and being dropped off by helicopters in the name of resource exploration, I decided that Earth Science wasn't for me. I wanted to work with people instead of data, so without ever taking a Psychology course, I switched majors. Although initially I wanted to do clinical psych, after a year I started to ascend the ivory tower by deciding that I'd rather work with ideas than with people and started doing research (though, I admit, people are still quite nice).

     After graduating from UW, I took a year off to travel up the West Coast of Australia, where I surfed and paid my way by waiting tables, bartending and picking grapes. I started graduate school at Harvard the next year with Dan Wegner. Now at the end of my PhD program, I hope to buy a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches and become a professor.


				Biographical Sketch: I was born on the West Coast of Canada, and after first living in half a dozen places across the country did most of my schooling in Calgary, Alberta. While there, I picked up the useful skills of skiing, sailing and cold call sales by doing door-to-door canvassing for the local newspaper. For my undergrad, I attended the University of Waterloo, where I entered their co-op program in Geophysics. After two years in that program, which included a few months up North driving snowmobiles and being dropped off by helicopters in the name of resource exploration, I decided that Earth Science wasn't for me. I wanted to work with people instead of data, so without ever taking a Psychology course, I switched majors. Although initially I wanted to do clinical psych, after a year I started to ascend the ivory tower by deciding that I'd rather work with ideas than with people and started doing research (though, I admit, people are still quite nice). After graduating from UW, I took a year off to travel up the West Coast of Australia, where I surfed and paid my way by waiting tables, bartending and picking grapes. I started graduate school at Harvard the next year with Dan Wegner. Now at the end of my PhD program, I hope to buy a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches and become a professor.