My name is Paul Franklin Smith, and I am a musician, student, aspiring scientist, and artist. I'm also a brain tumor survivor. In June, 2011, I underwent surgery to remove an astrocytoma from my left frontal lobe. The previous spring I had returned to university to study psychology and neuroscience. It was a chance occurrence that I was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, but I feel the knowledge I gained from my studies helped me through that time. I continued studying beginning the semester after my surgery... and my reading and research have never been...more