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oh man. This semester turned out to be pretty hellish the past few weeks. Ugh. So much work, so many papers. Taking 22 credits turned out to be a lot harder than I was expecting. I kept up well with most of my classes, I'm expecting As or high Bs in all, except maybe Child Psych. Really it's a class I should have done really well in, I had already learned a lot of what we went over in Human Development, but I really just didn't like my professor, and I don't really like developmental psych as much as I do other areas like applied or social or personality or abnormal. I don't know what it is, I just don't like it. It also didn't help that I really disliked the professor, I'm not entirely sure why, but I think she taught us a lot of outdated information.
In better news I definitely found that I have quite the passion for Abnormal Psych. I love it, I think mostly because it's just so impossible to really understand it. I will never not have questions about disorders or classifications or medications. I just love it all. And I'm good at, I love that I'm good at it. I do really well with the medications too, it kind of makes me want to go to medical school for psychiatry. I know that the field is kind of corrupt right now, but that makes me want to get into it even more. I want to try and fix it. I want to help people in more effective ways than just prescribing them all medication they probably don't even really need just to make a profit. Also the current DSM drives me crazy, but hopefully it will be better after the next edition comes out.
I also really like behavior modification. I really wish I had gotten into psych more before this semester. I was rushed into making a decision about my major, and I think I really missed out on getting a complete education in the field of psychology. Oh well, I guess there's always grad school.
I keep doing the dumbest things. I forgot to bring my laptop plug back to school last weekend so I went a week without my computer. Also I accidently dropped a class I really needed. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I really need to have it figured out before I go home for winter break.
I applied for a job at Goodwill Industries, which is where I do my internship. I really really hope I get it. I'm going to be so upset if I don't. I love it there and it would be so nice to have a stable full time job to save up money over the next semester. Plus if I don't get it I will really resent who ever they put in the position and I think it will make the whole last semester of my internship really awkward.
I'm trying to lose weight, but every time I make some progress, I take two steps backward. It's awful. I'm just so tired of looking the way I do, but its just so easy to rely on food when I'm stress out, which I definitely have been lately.
One more week and I'm home. I'm so ready for the semester to be over, and even readier to graduate.
In better news I definitely found that I have quite the passion for Abnormal Psych. I love it, I think mostly because it's just so impossible to really understand it. I will never not have questions about disorders or classifications or medications. I just love it all. And I'm good at, I love that I'm good at it. I do really well with the medications too, it kind of makes me want to go to medical school for psychiatry. I know that the field is kind of corrupt right now, but that makes me want to get into it even more. I want to try and fix it. I want to help people in more effective ways than just prescribing them all medication they probably don't even really need just to make a profit. Also the current DSM drives me crazy, but hopefully it will be better after the next edition comes out.
I also really like behavior modification. I really wish I had gotten into psych more before this semester. I was rushed into making a decision about my major, and I think I really missed out on getting a complete education in the field of psychology. Oh well, I guess there's always grad school.
I keep doing the dumbest things. I forgot to bring my laptop plug back to school last weekend so I went a week without my computer. Also I accidently dropped a class I really needed. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I really need to have it figured out before I go home for winter break.
I applied for a job at Goodwill Industries, which is where I do my internship. I really really hope I get it. I'm going to be so upset if I don't. I love it there and it would be so nice to have a stable full time job to save up money over the next semester. Plus if I don't get it I will really resent who ever they put in the position and I think it will make the whole last semester of my internship really awkward.
I'm trying to lose weight, but every time I make some progress, I take two steps backward. It's awful. I'm just so tired of looking the way I do, but its just so easy to rely on food when I'm stress out, which I definitely have been lately.
One more week and I'm home. I'm so ready for the semester to be over, and even readier to graduate.