Choices, choices, too many choices...
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trystinnFinished up in my Psych 310: Psychology of Learning Theory. Thank the Gods!
Not that I didn't find the discussion interesting, the teacher quite fabulous (though he likes Dr. Laura Schlessinger - major disappointment there, just under Anti-Christ in my personal pantheon of Hell), but the quick semester format SUCKS (high brow word for an English teacher, eh?) for this kind of class. Plus, the textbook was so laced with complicated, technical jargon it was like reading the instructions to your VHS while trying to get rid of a really horrible crank addiction.
Wouldn't you know it? Next session begins October 31st. Shit. Bad timing. I've got a few more pre-requisites to do, if I choose to do them now instead of waiting for January for the graduate program. But its probably best I take them now, given my fairly open schedule. Since I'm desperately trying to avoid both Child and Adolescent Psych (call it PTSD from my days in the public school system teaching), I was hoping for Abnormal Psych, which is waitlisted. Not sure if I'm on that list, though I'm supposed to be.
Someone asked me why I'm bothering to get grades in these classes when I could audit them for the credit of having taken them (vs course credits) for the graduate program. I told her my competitive nature wouldn't allow it.
Ironicly true.
Not that I didn't find the discussion interesting, the teacher quite fabulous (though he likes Dr. Laura Schlessinger - major disappointment there, just under Anti-Christ in my personal pantheon of Hell), but the quick semester format SUCKS (high brow word for an English teacher, eh?) for this kind of class. Plus, the textbook was so laced with complicated, technical jargon it was like reading the instructions to your VHS while trying to get rid of a really horrible crank addiction.
Wouldn't you know it? Next session begins October 31st. Shit. Bad timing. I've got a few more pre-requisites to do, if I choose to do them now instead of waiting for January for the graduate program. But its probably best I take them now, given my fairly open schedule. Since I'm desperately trying to avoid both Child and Adolescent Psych (call it PTSD from my days in the public school system teaching), I was hoping for Abnormal Psych, which is waitlisted. Not sure if I'm on that list, though I'm supposed to be.
Someone asked me why I'm bothering to get grades in these classes when I could audit them for the credit of having taken them (vs course credits) for the graduate program. I told her my competitive nature wouldn't allow it.
Ironicly true.
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Date: 2005-10-26 04:30 am (UTC)/evil laugh
I burned out after a few years, couldn't take the parents and the administration. The kids I could handle.
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Date: 2005-10-26 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 04:37 am (UTC)I used to grit my teeth and eat through it, bad on the stomach.
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Date: 2005-10-26 05:00 am (UTC)Where did you work? Any particular districts or schools I should avoid?
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Date: 2005-10-26 05:07 am (UTC)I worked in Massachusetts, Berkshire county. Different system, entirely.
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Date: 2005-10-26 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 05:17 am (UTC)I'd also recommend avoiding Algona, Kent, etc. Really scary folk down there, used to belong to a coven thereabouts and was routinely frightened when I shopped near there.
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Date: 2005-10-26 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 05:32 am (UTC)I'll hopefully see Muin on Samhain, if things work out for her, can I let her know who I'm chatting with? I know she's only teaching A, at this point, but I'm sure she knows the pipeline.
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Date: 2005-10-26 05:35 am (UTC)