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[rodanside]

Wuh oh--I've got senioritis. It's pretty bad. I'm updating my livejournal to tell you how bad it is instead of working on a big art history paper I sort of need to do well on. I'm paying slightly more attention to my psychology classes, but (please forgive me for whining) it's just so hard to get motivated when you know you're going to grad school

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[rodanside]

If you didn't read a couple posts down, you probably got a little confused... I'm not going to UC Berkeley (as far as I know, they don't have a PsyD program)--I'm going to the Wright Institute, which is this three-story tudor house that they converted into a graduate school of sorts. They offer either a masters in counseling psychology (which I'm not doing) or a doctorate in clinical psychology (which I am doing). It's a five-year program, and at the end of it I'll presumably have my PsyD, take the licensing exam and be a practicing therapist in the state of California! It's something I've wanted to do since I can remember, and the dream is finally coming true. Excellent!

The Wright is on Durant Ave. though, so it's literally right next to the Berkeley campus. Apparently professors from Wright and professors from Berkeley talk at each other's schools, but other than that there's no connection between them. Although, the Wright has its own clinic where people can come for therapy just like any other place, which includes a lot of Berkeley students (and that's great, because I've read all about the UC therapy crunch that has students waiting as long as six months to get treatment on site). From what the admissions lady told me the last time I was there, second-year students are already counseling in that clinic (with supervision of course). So perhaps I'll see you walking around the streets of Berkeley, or maybe on my therapy couch. Just kidding.