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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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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.
[Poll #913023]
