30 January 2006

pics from the semester

Me & Bethany


Amanda & Sara

Sara & I


I was hungry...


Kristi

i'm a postcard addict

i brought back some stuff to decorate a little since our walls were so bare
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it's about 4'x4' at the moment and that's maybe half my postcard collection i also have a couple small paintings from my world painting collection near my bed...1 from new orleans, 1 from santorini, and 1 from rome. my one from france is at home, i'll have to bring that back to add to a wall.

ps. feel free to send me more =)

28 January 2006

military ball

I had a lot of fun last night =)
and I'm sure this is what you all really want...
Tom & I
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me and my lovely little sister =)
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24 January 2006

my 1st week and a half

well, let's see. the 2 things i've learned so far...FYI:
the word hysteria comes from the greek word for uterus. originally used to descripe what are essentially the symptoms of pms, maybe hysteria too, b/c they thought the uterus could wander around your body then they later learned it's not an animal, it's a body part.

chicken pox is caused by the herpes virus.

anyways, classes are going well. they're going to be a lot of work, but should be interesting. i really enjoy my water aerobics class. it's a nice way to start off my day.
for emotion (the dance club) i'm doing a jazz # to the techno remix of o fortuna from carmina burana. so far, i really like the choreography, so that'll be fun...and a good work out.

probably the most stressful thing this semester and next will be my senior thesis. i'm supposed to come up with at least the beginnings of a proposal by spring break (the 1st week of march). as a psych major, my senior thesis/honor's thesis/honor's in the discipline project is an original research project, which will be evaluated by the members of the department, and for the honor's program, i need to formal presentation open to the campus and local communities. i have no clue what i want to do so i'm researching potential ideas for that. i'll probably do something with positive psychology.

grad school...looking at liberty for my masters in counselling. not sure about that yet. and getting licensed as a school psychologist requires at least a masters before you can get certified as well as lots of hours of fieldwork. one of the founders of positive psychology is a professor at upenn so i'm looking into that. they don't have a masters program though, just a doctoral program. and they only accept about 10 out of 500 applicants so i have almost no chance of getting into that program. on the plus side, they give you at least $20,000 a year for the 1st 4 years so you can focus on your studies and research.

lets see...fun stuff in my life...saturday night liz (my roomie from last year), elise, bill, jurgen, garry, and i hung out at liz's apartment and played taboo. that was a lot of fun. amanda (my new roomie), sara, and kristi having been hanging out a lot watching sex in the city and movies. last night we watched moulin rouge...great movie. i loved it. go watch it. (it's kinda random and pretty artsy so don't watch it if you don't like that kind of thing)
this friday night i'm going to a military ball in downingtown with tom (he graduated last year and we were in band and percussion ensemble together). i'm really excited about that. (anyone around p-ville, i'll be home sat if you want to hang out, but i won't have a car b/c it'll be getting repaired...call me if you want to meet up) i'm going back to etown saturday night b/c i work sunday morning.

well, i hope you're all doing well.
<3

13 January 2006

scheduling makes my life very difficult

I just found out today that my honors leadership seminar is cancelled for the semester. On the plus side, I can now take band and get one of my social work reqs out of the way. I guess there really isn't a downside unless they don't offer such a course in the fall...which hopefully they will since they cancelled it for the spring. Here's the updated schedule.

Mondays: band 4:30-6
Tuesdays: water aerobics 9:30-10:20
neuroscience 11-12:15
research in developmental psych 12:30-1:45
abnormal psych 2-3:15
Wednesdays: theories of personality 9:30-10:45
honors thesis prep 2-3:20
band 4:30-6
Thursdays: water aerobics 9:30-10:20
neuroscience 11-12:15
research in developmental psych 12:30-1:45
abnormal psych 2-3:15
percussion ensemble 8-9:15
Fridays: theories of personality 9:30-10:45


This semester's going to be insanely busy/hard. And I'm almost positive I have to take the GREs in April or June or something so if anyone wants to get me a GRE prep book, that would be fantastic.