Hey!
So I really have enjoyed writing in this thing, more so than I ever thought I would ever enjoy blogging, so I think I am going to keep this up. I know that I do not have the best looking blog or the most interesting thoughts, but since I have some free time and have lost my journal I thought I would write about life after studying abroad and life after college.
So I now have just one semester left and I will have my Bachelor's degree in Psychology. What can you do with a BA in Psychology? (Musical reference! 10 points goes to anyone that can guess what musical this is from) Not really much. There are unfortunately not too many jobs you can get with just a BA or BS in Psych. One who majors in Psychology pretty much MUST attend grad school and at the minimum obtain a Master's in Clinical or Counseling Psych if you really want to work exactly in Psychology. I want to become a School Psychologist and have been doing a lot of research, especially since being home, into what kind of grad schools I would need to go to. I need to get a Master's in School Psychology and then go on to get a specialists degree (Ed. S) in school psychology. Yay for more debt! But I know it is so totally gonna be worth it!
Being home has been really nice, but I also miss Copenhagen a lot. Since being home, I had never before realized how much I enjoyed the independence I had in Denmark. Sure, I lived with a host family, so I wasn't completely independent, I did not have to cook any of my meals, but it was nice to be able to go somewhere without someone asking me where I'm going and why I'm going there and what things I need to do before I go where I need to go. It is nice to be home with my family who love and care about me, but at times I feel trapped.
I also miss the awesomeness of European public transportation! Philly, and America in general really sucks in this area. I hate driving. You really need a car to get around in America.
Getting back into the groove of driving was way easier than I thought it was going to be. Like they say driving a car is like riding a bike- you never forget. The trains run once every hour. Unlike in Copenhagen with every ten minutes. I also really miss riding my bike everywhere. I can't ride my bike anywhere here. First of al,l I would be killed by the millions and millions of cars driving around everywhere. Also, where I live there are so many steep, steep hills so biking just really isn't an option.
I am very excited about the upcoming semester. It should be a really relaxed semester. After the many stressful semesters, especially last year, with me going to school full-time and working at Panera, I deserve to relax. Even my semester in Denmark was a little stressful. I literally only need 6 more credits graduate from Eastern. Had I planned better, I could have graduated early from Eastern, but oh well. I am kind of happy to graduate with most of my friends.
In my semester abroad, I had lost about 12 pounds. I am trying to keep it off, though it is really hard. I never really realized how unhealthy my family eats and just how many snacks are available at my disposal until I lived in a house that had no food, and certainly no snack food in it. I joined Planet Fitness, which should help me to keep the weight off. It is only $10 a month and is open 24 hours a day! Sweet! Plus, this has a much younger crowd than LA Fitness had. I always felt so weird at LA Fitness, like I was so much younger than the rest of the people that went there. Also, I was constantly bothered by workers to sign up for personal training sessions. Yeah, with what money? I'm hoping they won't do that at Planet Fitness. We will see.
My birthday is today! I am 22 years old. It is so crazy how time flies. It feels like just yesterday I was graduating from high school- in May I will have graduated from college!
My computer screen has miraculously repaired itself. If you may remember, I spilled water on my computer screen when I was in Denmark. My screen was completely white and would not work unless it was hooked up to a different screen. DIS was nice and leant me a screen and cords to connect my screen to. Since I have been home though, I have not had access to my computer. For the past couple of days I have been trying to find the right cords to hook my computer up to my TV. I went to Best Buy in Montgomeryville and bought a HDMI cord and a converter to a mini- DisplayPort. Well, my computer does not have a mini- Display port, it has a regular sized DisplayPort. Okay. So I go onto the apple live chat thing at Apple and ask some guy named Giovanni what I should get. He tells me a mini-DisplayPort. He then tells me I should go to the Apple store to see what they say.
They Apple store is 40 minutes away from me. But I figure it is worth a shot. I wait. That store is so crazy. It is just so packed all the time every time I have ever gone, it is suffocating. The guy says they no longer make DisplayPort to DVI cords and does not know where I could possibly get one. Great. So helpful. Not. There is a BestBuy by the King of Prussia mall so I go there to return the cords that I cannot use and see if there is another kind of cable I should be getting. A very nice kid at BestBuy helps me to get VGA cord that can be hooked up to any monitor. Cool. Hopefully this works, I think.
Well I hook it up to my LCD TV screen. I can see the background of my computer, but not any of the icons or the dashboard. Perhaps the screen is too big for my laptop. I try to hook it up to a different monitor- same problem, when suddenly, get this MY LAPTOP SCREEN MAGICALLY WORKS! I kid you not. After 26 days (Yes, I remember the date of the awful, terrible day the water was spilled on my computer) my computer screen no longer is a white, blank screen, but is legit working. I do not understand, but I am not going to question it. I guess it is an early birthday present to me! I guess I will be returning those cables I just bought to Best Buy tomorrow. Or maybe the next day. I don't think I should have to go to Best Buy on my birthday. Just saying....
In conclusion, life back in America is... life? I planned so so much for this past semester and now that it is all over, I don't really know what is to come, but all I know is that I am going to take this one day at a time.
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