Last week I attended the Rose Café event where GRF Sara presented her research on melancholy. I thought her presenting skills were really good. During the presentation I learned that melancholy is not the same thing as sadness. It’s kind of like a deeper and more powerful version of sadness that doesn’t have a definite cause (as does sadness). She mentioned that during times of melancholy people tend to be really creative and I thought that this was a fascinating fact because it’s not something that I would usually expect. During her presentation she mentioned Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Freud’s work. I was able to relate better to what she was saying here because I’m actually learning about Freud and Hamlet in my adult psychopathology class.  I think that I really enjoyed her presentation because it exposed me to a subject that my usual science curriculum hasn’t given me a chance to think about.