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SFN is my favorite meeting. The key is to see SFN as a deconstructed meeting, where everyone gets to create their own experience.

Because every neuroscience question is at SFN, we can all find our own paths through it. I can spend a morning talking addiction, go to lunch with a striatal colleague, and then spend an afternoon talking hippocampus. And then spend the evening talking neuroeconomics. Someone else might spend the morning in drosophila head direction systems and the afternoon talking rat navigation with me. Everyone finds their own path through SFN.

The problem I see people having with SFN is that they treat it like a normal conference. It's not. It's more like a chance to swim in a great science ocean and to see lots of friends from many different communities. If you go into SFN trying to see specific things, you'll likely fail and hate it. But if you go with the zen attitude of "I'm going to see some great science for a few days", then it's a wonderful meeting.