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I just got out of my practice evaluation test and I really don't want to do anything but I am stuck at school for an hour and a half til Josh gets out of class. :(
This has been a crazy week. I am SO ready to be out of school for the summer and in Texas and an hour away from the beach.
Two more weeks of classes left, 2 group papers, 2 individual papers, 1 presentation, 1 take home final, and about 40 hours of field and I am a free woman!
So we got our psychopathology midterms back this week. Of the 42 people in our class, 35 people got A's---guess who didn't?! That's right, yours truly was in the bottom fifth of the grading distribution. Talk about a self-esteem booster. It was a take home and I worked really hard on it too! There was one really important thing I forgot and then there are these things called global assessment of functioning scores. You have give people a number on a scale from 1-100 based on their functioning and symptoms and I CANNOT do them!!! I am usually somewhere between 10 and 20 off, which is really bad. It pretty much sucks...
Sometimes I think I'm not very good at the mental health stuff which makes me think maybe I should focus more on community organizing and stuff than mental health, but I guess I'll find out next year at my placement since it will be all mental health all the time.
I have finally gotten one of my independent studies worked out. It will be on depressive disorders among late adolescent and early adult African American women. At least I think I'm going to do the African American thing...I'm not 100% sure yet. I'll be doing an annotated bibliography and a paper. I really like my sponsor too, she's really nice and seems very conscientious.
I'm kind of excited about field tomorrow because I actually have something to do. Okay, maybe excited isn't the word....maybe I'm just not dreading it.
I'm not sure I did very well on my practice evaluation test. In contrast to my psychopathology stuff, I definitely should have studied harder. It sounds like I did better than most of the other people I talked to though and I've heard she curves so that's good. Today as this girl was leaving with a bunch of her friends and I was out in the hallway, she was like home you didn't mess up the curve...She meant it nice and didn't say it mean at all, but I just kind of stood there and felt stupid. I never know what to say when people say things like that. I think I need to be more witty.
Well, I'm going to go do something....