Accepted
Got my acceptance package from FIU. I've been placed as a Junior with my Major declared as Upper Division Psychology. Now I have all this other crap to do before signing up for classes (they start in January). I'm pretty sure for my first semester I'm going to take:
Intro to Psychology
Intro to Japanese
and either
Quarks, Superstrings and Black Holes
or
Love And Sexuality
They're not offering a lot of the other classes I want to take for Spring so I probably have to wait for Fall semester for those. I also plan to up the amount of credits I'm taking per semester after my first semester. I want my first semester to be enjoyable so I can get back into the swing of school. It's been 4 years since I graduated from Miami University of Art & Design (formerly known as IFAC). Can you believe they *just* sent me my degree from there? Geez, they suck. They told me forever that I was missing a class, but I wasn't. I had 84 credits (only 69 are usually needed for an AA), but FIU will only transfer 60. So I still have 64 credits to take before I get my BA. If I take 4 or 5 classes a semester, I can very easily graduate with my BA within 1.5 years or less. Then grad school for who knows how long (will vary depending on whether I want to continue on to my Doctorate). What all this means? After getting my degrees and doing internship and getting Board Certified, I could be working and established within a private practice by as soon as 6 years, when I'm 34. It makes me feel better to know I'm not as far behind as I thought I was.
I'm pretty sure I know what grad school I want to go to. If I'm accepted, you'll have to come visit me in San Francisco at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. They seem like such an awesome school!
If you feel like checking them out:
http://www.iashs.edu/
They seem very progressive as well as a smallish institution of learning. All of their courses are centered on Human Sexuality and Sexology. They believe sexual identity to be unique, individual and part of the expression of the individual. They believe human sexuality should be studied in a purely academic setting where the church cannot interfere. Their mission includes furthering tolerance for alternative sexual lifestyles such as homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, transvestism, polyamory, BDSM, gender dysphoria, etc.
On a lighter note, if I decide I can handle getting a doctorate from them...the official title of my doctorate will be Doctorate of Sexuality. How much fun am I going to have when I get to answer the question, "So what kind of a doctor are you?" lmao
My favorite part of their website and what ultimately decided me hands down was the following:
Basic Sexual Rights
The ethical guidelines for the Institute are based on the belief that sexual rights are human rights.
1. The freedom of any sexual thought, fantasy or desire.
2. The right to sexual entertainment, freely available in the marketplace, including sexually explicit materials dealing with the full range of sexual behavior.
3. The right not to be exposed to sexual material or behavior.
4. The right to sexual self-determination.
5. The right to seek out and engage in consensual sexual activity.
6. The right to engage in sexual acts or activities of any kind whatsoever, providing they do not involve nonconsensual acts, violence, coercion or fraud.
7. The right to be free of persecution, condemnation, discrimination, or societal intervention in private sexual behavior.
8. The recognition by society that every person, partnered or unpartnered, has the right to the pursuit of a satisfying consensual sociosexual life free from political, legal or religious interference and that there need to be mechanisms in society where the opportunities of sociosexual activities are available to the following: disabled persons; chronically ill persons; those incarcerated in prisons, hospitals or institutions; those disadvantaged because of age, lack of physical attractiveness, or lack of social skills; and the poor and the lonely.
9. The basic right of all persons who are sexually dysfunctional to have available nonjudgmental sexual health care.
10. The right to control conception.
Intro to Psychology
Intro to Japanese
and either
Quarks, Superstrings and Black Holes
or
Love And Sexuality
They're not offering a lot of the other classes I want to take for Spring so I probably have to wait for Fall semester for those. I also plan to up the amount of credits I'm taking per semester after my first semester. I want my first semester to be enjoyable so I can get back into the swing of school. It's been 4 years since I graduated from Miami University of Art & Design (formerly known as IFAC). Can you believe they *just* sent me my degree from there? Geez, they suck. They told me forever that I was missing a class, but I wasn't. I had 84 credits (only 69 are usually needed for an AA), but FIU will only transfer 60. So I still have 64 credits to take before I get my BA. If I take 4 or 5 classes a semester, I can very easily graduate with my BA within 1.5 years or less. Then grad school for who knows how long (will vary depending on whether I want to continue on to my Doctorate). What all this means? After getting my degrees and doing internship and getting Board Certified, I could be working and established within a private practice by as soon as 6 years, when I'm 34. It makes me feel better to know I'm not as far behind as I thought I was.
I'm pretty sure I know what grad school I want to go to. If I'm accepted, you'll have to come visit me in San Francisco at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. They seem like such an awesome school!
If you feel like checking them out:
http://www.iashs.edu/
They seem very progressive as well as a smallish institution of learning. All of their courses are centered on Human Sexuality and Sexology. They believe sexual identity to be unique, individual and part of the expression of the individual. They believe human sexuality should be studied in a purely academic setting where the church cannot interfere. Their mission includes furthering tolerance for alternative sexual lifestyles such as homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, transvestism, polyamory, BDSM, gender dysphoria, etc.
On a lighter note, if I decide I can handle getting a doctorate from them...the official title of my doctorate will be Doctorate of Sexuality. How much fun am I going to have when I get to answer the question, "So what kind of a doctor are you?" lmao
My favorite part of their website and what ultimately decided me hands down was the following:
Basic Sexual Rights
The ethical guidelines for the Institute are based on the belief that sexual rights are human rights.
1. The freedom of any sexual thought, fantasy or desire.
2. The right to sexual entertainment, freely available in the marketplace, including sexually explicit materials dealing with the full range of sexual behavior.
3. The right not to be exposed to sexual material or behavior.
4. The right to sexual self-determination.
5. The right to seek out and engage in consensual sexual activity.
6. The right to engage in sexual acts or activities of any kind whatsoever, providing they do not involve nonconsensual acts, violence, coercion or fraud.
7. The right to be free of persecution, condemnation, discrimination, or societal intervention in private sexual behavior.
8. The recognition by society that every person, partnered or unpartnered, has the right to the pursuit of a satisfying consensual sociosexual life free from political, legal or religious interference and that there need to be mechanisms in society where the opportunities of sociosexual activities are available to the following: disabled persons; chronically ill persons; those incarcerated in prisons, hospitals or institutions; those disadvantaged because of age, lack of physical attractiveness, or lack of social skills; and the poor and the lonely.
9. The basic right of all persons who are sexually dysfunctional to have available nonjudgmental sexual health care.
10. The right to control conception.