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Mar. 27th, 2013 12:07 pm So, something I haven't posted about yet. I'm applying to college again!
When I graduated high school I enrolled in college for psychology. I had always enjoyed my psych classes in high school and done well in them. I liked thinking about how the mind works. I enjoyed abnormal psych, child psych, all the basic stuff I got to take. I loved the experiments we learned about, from the more disturbing ones about following orders to the ones about how people like to feel like they're part of a crowd, and will little by little join a group of people who is staring at nothing, just so they don't feel left out. I still remember carrying out this experiment in class. We walked in and the teacher was staring at the ceiling in one corner and little by little everyone joined her even though nothing was there. Interesting stuff.
So, I went to college. I had bad experience after bad experience, experimented with being a slut for a while, had bad room mates, started skipping a lot of classes and eventually my entire rep was destroyed. I left after a year and a half, despite wanting to beat the odds and come out on top. I just didn't have a strong enough personality to overcome all that. To live it down.
I still have nightmares about that place. Common nightmares about standing in line to drop a class or being late for a class or being lost, basically a lot of things that actually did happen. LOL
So now that I am a more well adjusted adult (oh who am I kidding, I'm just as messed up, I just know how to handle it better now) I decided to apply again. We live down the street from one of the branches of UMass. So I decided what the heck?
Let me tell you, it's like night and day compared to how applying to colleges was back in the 90's. Remember snail mailing your applications, waiting for guidance counselors to get your high school transcripts ready to also snail mail, waiting for replies...in the mail...it felt like it took forever! No more. In 2 days I have gotten all my ducks in a row. FAFSA forms done, transcripts requested, still waiting to hear from my high school, but that's about it!
I am excited! Even my son is intrigued at the prospect of mommy going back to school. My husband has been supportive even offering to help me figure out tonight what direction I want to go after getting my psychology degree. Should I minor? What should I do in grad school?
I'm not even sure what I want to do with it. There are lots of ways I could go. I thought it would be interesting to have an online practice, either through e mails or private chat rooms, for teenagers and tweens who don't have the time to go to a physical office, or who feel awkward talking with a psych face to face. I'm not sure if that could work out, with confidentiality and all that, but it would be interesting to explore. Other than that, maybe a school psych. I think I do prefer teen/preteen age groups to adults or smaller children. But we shall see, as my studies develop, what interests me.
So...yay!
When I graduated high school I enrolled in college for psychology. I had always enjoyed my psych classes in high school and done well in them. I liked thinking about how the mind works. I enjoyed abnormal psych, child psych, all the basic stuff I got to take. I loved the experiments we learned about, from the more disturbing ones about following orders to the ones about how people like to feel like they're part of a crowd, and will little by little join a group of people who is staring at nothing, just so they don't feel left out. I still remember carrying out this experiment in class. We walked in and the teacher was staring at the ceiling in one corner and little by little everyone joined her even though nothing was there. Interesting stuff.
So, I went to college. I had bad experience after bad experience, experimented with being a slut for a while, had bad room mates, started skipping a lot of classes and eventually my entire rep was destroyed. I left after a year and a half, despite wanting to beat the odds and come out on top. I just didn't have a strong enough personality to overcome all that. To live it down.
I still have nightmares about that place. Common nightmares about standing in line to drop a class or being late for a class or being lost, basically a lot of things that actually did happen. LOL
So now that I am a more well adjusted adult (oh who am I kidding, I'm just as messed up, I just know how to handle it better now) I decided to apply again. We live down the street from one of the branches of UMass. So I decided what the heck?
Let me tell you, it's like night and day compared to how applying to colleges was back in the 90's. Remember snail mailing your applications, waiting for guidance counselors to get your high school transcripts ready to also snail mail, waiting for replies...in the mail...it felt like it took forever! No more. In 2 days I have gotten all my ducks in a row. FAFSA forms done, transcripts requested, still waiting to hear from my high school, but that's about it!
I am excited! Even my son is intrigued at the prospect of mommy going back to school. My husband has been supportive even offering to help me figure out tonight what direction I want to go after getting my psychology degree. Should I minor? What should I do in grad school?
I'm not even sure what I want to do with it. There are lots of ways I could go. I thought it would be interesting to have an online practice, either through e mails or private chat rooms, for teenagers and tweens who don't have the time to go to a physical office, or who feel awkward talking with a psych face to face. I'm not sure if that could work out, with confidentiality and all that, but it would be interesting to explore. Other than that, maybe a school psych. I think I do prefer teen/preteen age groups to adults or smaller children. But we shall see, as my studies develop, what interests me.
So...yay!
