a funny thing happened on the way from the classroom

[theladyrose]

Today marks a new 'first' - my 'accent' has now been mistaken for Australian.

I have no idea what gave the person that impression.

Next week looks to be as much fun as a barrel of monkeys. Wednesday I have my first statistics test, then there's my first adolescent development Thursday and I have my first paper for my writing class due Friday. I'm also supposed to turn in a proposal for a 'creative project' and start working on it next Monday. What I love about psychology is how intuitively obvious and practical the subject matter is - you can see all of the theories about cognition, behavior and the like on an everyday basis. I don't know if I can really say the same for 'Crises of a Planet' - determing the date of prehistoric earthquakes sometimes doesn't feel sufficiently interesting to make me wake up at 8:30 three days out of the week. I wish I took the psych 'Love and Attachment' class as my science requirement instead, except that the times didn't work with my schedule, and there's a department prohibition on how many additional psych courses one takes outside of major requirements.

Irene and I went to the Psi Chi psychology research assistants presentation this evening, which was pretty cool although we were on the young side; most of the students there were probably sophomores and juniors. I wish that there were more industrial/organizational-related projects but the focus mostly seems on agression, brain imaging studies of learning processes, clinical psych and gerontological/developmental psych. Still, there are a few projects that look pretty interesting, particularly in the social cognition lab and this study about depression intervention treatment differences in Caucasians and Asian Americans. I just remembered that it's actually incorrect to hyphenate Asian American if the term is used as a noun, but I have no idea why. I don't think it's officially AP Style yet.

Headed back to my dorm from the presentation, I spotted a freshly posted flier advertising for French tutoring help for a 9-year-old boy, two hours a week for $15-18/hr to meet on campus. Serendipitously enough, no one had ripped off any of the phone number slips, so I took one and called to meet a Hispanic-sounding girl named Sara. She sounded older than 9, so now I'm a little suspicious. We're supposed to meet tomorrow at 4 at a Taco Bell near the west side of campus. I hope that it doesn't end up being a scam, although my instinct isn't detecting any warning signs yet. I'd like the excuse to keep up with French.

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Comments

[annasmiles.livejournal.com]

statistics, ew, a nightmare that's over for me, but best of luck to you.
psychology just rules, this depression intervention treatment differences in Caucasians and Asian Americans, anything published about it ? Would love to read it.
I don't know your french level, but you should give it a try the payment sound good and you get to practice, when you don't know something just say it's something more complicated than it seems and that you can discuss on the next class, lol.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks; I'm currently hoping that statistics won't get too much harder than it is right now, but that's a lot of wishful thinking on my end :)

The depression intervention treatment study is still being conducted; at the earliest the results would be published sometime this spring but I have a feeling it will be going on for at least a year. I'll see what else I can find out about it.

I think that's what I'll be doing with the tutoring; thanks for the advice :) I spoke to the boy's mother today, and after she interviews another possible student tutor she said she'd call me back, so I hope that it all works out.

[annasmiles.livejournal.com]

Good luck !