I'm making bean soup, which is a totally legitimate excuse for not writing my Theories paper. Right ( Read more... )

My life as a SPN story arc ( Read more... )

Reading Erikson's "Identity and the Life Cycle" for my Psychology of Lifespan class, I've learned the following ( Read more... )

1) Psychosexual theory is wacky. A handful of really important, key concepts, and then a whole lot of crazy. Like, okay, a guy comes in and tells you he's having a hard time making friends, and you think to yourself that it probably stems from him wishing he could stil breastfeed with his mother, and maybe there's a certain logic to your thought ( Read more... )

 I finished my first week of grad school.

So far...honestly, I love it. The amount of reading I have to do is insane, and 90% of my classmates are younger than I am, but my instructors are awesome and the material is genuinely interesting.

Just one thing - before I enrolled in a Master's in Clinical Psych program, I didn't spend a lot of time ( Read more... )

This year is moving so incredibly fast. Ever since January, it's been one thing after another - studying for and taking the GRE, writing my admissions essay and corralling all the necessary elements of my admissions packet, taking that horrible statistics course, and of course work, with all its myriad stresses and preoccupations and hours of ( Read more... )

 It kicked my ass and I never really knew what I was doing, but I took my Statistics final yesterday and finished out the course with an A.

Oh my god, I hated every second of that class. Being finished with it feels amazing.

I have two more weeks until I step down from my position at work, and four more until classes start. At this point, school ( Read more... )

 Studying for my section exam, and I find this in my notes ( Read more... )

 In my first-ever LJ post, I write like James Joyce.

In the last unfinished short story on my flash drive, I write like Margaret Atwood overall, though individual paragraphs are more like Stephen King.

In my grad school admission essay, I write like Kurt Vonnegut.

Why, why, why am I spending time on iwl.me/ when I still have four sets of homework, a ( Read more... )

 This online statistics class is eating my life ( Read more... )