huh?
looking at my previous entry and thinking ......... wow. it has certainly been an interesting bit of time since then.
today i went to the info session to get into honours for my field of choice and then went and spoke to my academic advisor which was smart because getting super overwhelmed by the idea of the whole grad school thing was promptly stopped with realistic planning for all the shit before that. one step at a time. if i think too hard about the nation-wide 6% average acceptance rate for grad school, i start to dissipate into a gas and float away.
life is .... not what i expected. here are some details:
- after fighting disability (again) money stuff is okay
- i managed to score scholarships because of my grades? which is insane?
- i'm in my second year of my psych/philosophy double major
- hit the dean's list my entire first year
- started a research assistant position in a lab
- i'm internal communications for the psych students association (and a very good pick for president next year)
- secretary of the arts student executive council
- i'm a TA for my favourite philosophy prof
- recently completed sexual abuse first responder training
- volunteering for the organization that helped me figure out what was wrong with me when i was 14 (the international society for the study of trauma and dissociation)
- working with a therapist, a psychiatrist, a case worker, a disability advisor and a social worker to keep all my various shit in order
yup. shit's weird. but i'm doing well and working hard and it's nice doing stuff that i like and that i'm good at and that is challenging
today i went to the info session to get into honours for my field of choice and then went and spoke to my academic advisor which was smart because getting super overwhelmed by the idea of the whole grad school thing was promptly stopped with realistic planning for all the shit before that. one step at a time. if i think too hard about the nation-wide 6% average acceptance rate for grad school, i start to dissipate into a gas and float away.
life is .... not what i expected. here are some details:
- after fighting disability (again) money stuff is okay
- i managed to score scholarships because of my grades? which is insane?
- i'm in my second year of my psych/philosophy double major
- hit the dean's list my entire first year
- started a research assistant position in a lab
- i'm internal communications for the psych students association (and a very good pick for president next year)
- secretary of the arts student executive council
- i'm a TA for my favourite philosophy prof
- recently completed sexual abuse first responder training
- volunteering for the organization that helped me figure out what was wrong with me when i was 14 (the international society for the study of trauma and dissociation)
- working with a therapist, a psychiatrist, a case worker, a disability advisor and a social worker to keep all my various shit in order
yup. shit's weird. but i'm doing well and working hard and it's nice doing stuff that i like and that i'm good at and that is challenging