( That D&D meme )

To be perfectly honest, the last thing a person who's really depressed right now wants or needs is to be around people who are freaking out. That's why it's often easier to keep it to ourselves ( Read more... )

As I like to post my papers here for your viewing pleasure,( it's behind a cut because it's super-long. )

Success is not a dichotomy.
I am human and sometimes my 100% will only net me an 80%.
...AND THAT IS OKAY.
I don't have to be the best at everything, even in academia.
I do not have someone else's real or imagined (by me) expectation that I am perfect that I must live up to.

Repeat until I fucking understand this.

Aside from [Step 1] making a degree plan and [Step 1.5] meeting with my advisor to make sure my calculations are correct (she said they aren't, and I don't believe her, but the latest I'll finish my coursework is next summer), I have had a mental pin in the need to definitively find graduate schools to apply to for my Master's degree (although ( Read more... )

If I take a full course-load this summer (with Motivation and Emotion)...
And Sensation, Perception and Action; Biological Psych; and Experimental Psych this fall...
And Abnormal Psych; Theories of Learning and Cognition; and History and Systems in Psych next spring...

I'll be all set to Graduate in 2013!

(Now just to make up my mind Re: Graduate

I wrote this for Writing for Psych, thought you all might like a read of it.

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For the first few weeks of Advanced Stats for Psychology we're reviewing stuff that we (should've) covered in Intro Stats. One point today was the "Goals of Behavioral Science":

1. Explain behavior
   
2. Predict behavior
   
3. Control behavior

Makes sense ( Read more... )

( Things are pretty humdrum. )

My last update was September 30th.
So instead of how I am or a perusement of my thoughts, here's my schedule for next semester!

M-W-F:
9-9:50a- Advanced Statistics
11-11:50a- Writing for Psychology
12-12:50a- Juvenile Delinquency

T-R:
9:30-10:45a- Ethical Theory

(Subject to change, especially seeing as how I want TA for Stats.)