Schroedinger's class schedule
I have two nursing bachelors programs I’ve applied to, the U of U and WGU. Both are pending a transcript from Strayer University. When WGU never received theirs, I thought it was WGU. But the U hasn’t gotten theirs and I ordered one to come to my house, which was supposedly sent last Friday. So that’s starting to look suspicious. If the U doesn’t get it today, my submitted application will not be complete. I didn’t know, until after 5 last night, that they hadn’t received it so overnight isn’t soon enough. So it will be interesting to see what happens there. I emailed them to ask if my application can count toward the May deadline.
For WGU, I may or may not need to take a public speaking class. I was able to register for an online section, so I am excited about that. But that puts me up at 4 classes, and I only wanted to take 2 or 3. So the next 12 hours are going to decide. If am not up for entering the U for fall of 2015, I will delay taking Pathophysiology, because it is at a very difficult time with my children’s school schedules. There is childcare through campus, but the class straddles morning and afternoon, so I’d have to sign up my child for both blocks if I went through them. I guess there was a childcare referral service posted at the pediatrician’s office I could look into.
But I’m feeling really good today, unlike yesterday when I was so frustrated by all this. Part of it is I came up with an idea I’m really excited about that I can pitch in a scholarship application essay. It has to do with the antidepressant paradox, learned optimism, and military suicide rates. I get excited about strange things sometimes.
But my theory is that the antidepressant paradox reflects a disjoint of mood and motivation. When depression is treated chemically but the underlying problems have not been addressed, the patient may move from “Life sucks and I can’t do anything about it” to “Life sucks and I CAN do something about it.” Depression has a protective aspect. It keeps us from moving forward when we’re in a painful situation. They find the antidepressant paradox more in young people, which also describes the military population.
I’ll need to look further into it. I only have wikipedia’s word the the military even uses Learned Optimism as an intervention. But it would be interesting if if has this same effect of fixing motivation without correcting mood. The implications of motivation and mood being independent is really interesting to me, by itself.
For WGU, I may or may not need to take a public speaking class. I was able to register for an online section, so I am excited about that. But that puts me up at 4 classes, and I only wanted to take 2 or 3. So the next 12 hours are going to decide. If am not up for entering the U for fall of 2015, I will delay taking Pathophysiology, because it is at a very difficult time with my children’s school schedules. There is childcare through campus, but the class straddles morning and afternoon, so I’d have to sign up my child for both blocks if I went through them. I guess there was a childcare referral service posted at the pediatrician’s office I could look into.
But I’m feeling really good today, unlike yesterday when I was so frustrated by all this. Part of it is I came up with an idea I’m really excited about that I can pitch in a scholarship application essay. It has to do with the antidepressant paradox, learned optimism, and military suicide rates. I get excited about strange things sometimes.
But my theory is that the antidepressant paradox reflects a disjoint of mood and motivation. When depression is treated chemically but the underlying problems have not been addressed, the patient may move from “Life sucks and I can’t do anything about it” to “Life sucks and I CAN do something about it.” Depression has a protective aspect. It keeps us from moving forward when we’re in a painful situation. They find the antidepressant paradox more in young people, which also describes the military population.
I’ll need to look further into it. I only have wikipedia’s word the the military even uses Learned Optimism as an intervention. But it would be interesting if if has this same effect of fixing motivation without correcting mood. The implications of motivation and mood being independent is really interesting to me, by itself.