Change and Growth

Hello.

So I have been back home for a little more than three weeks now. It has been really good to be home, but also very boring. For most of my breaks, I usually am busy working, but this year I have no job so I feel like I have too much time on my hands. Which is strange. I guess I never realized how much I like to keep myself busy.

I start classes up again in about a week, so that will be good. The one class I am taking, History and Systems in Psychology. It is basically a culminating course in Psychology that mixes Philosophy and Psychology. I have never really taken a Philosophy course before, so I am not sure how much I am going to like this course, plus it is the most difficult Psychology course offered at Eastern, but I'm sure it will be fine.

I should be starting up my internship soon at the Eastern University Academic charter school in East Falls. I just have to wait for all my background check clearances to go through. I am very excited! I am supposedly working with the school social worker and since I want to become a school psychologist, it would be a great opportunity to see someone in that kind of field in action.

Yesterday, I went to this group called Thrive, which is basically like a college and career group that meets every Tuesday nights at this church. I have heard good things about it. I went with my sister, but it was really awkward. I supposed going to something where there are 200+ people attending and you don't know anyone can be very intimidating. I'll go a few more times, and hopefully it will get better. I have hope. It's always hard to put yourself out there like that, but if you never do, you'll never experience anything new. Being put into uncomfortable situations creates change and growth.

I also have been doing some research about graduate schools. So far the schools closest to me that have school Psychology programs are: Temple, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Rider University, Lehigh University, and Millersville University. I would probably most likely go to Temple or to PCOM. Or wherever I get in. This wouldn't be until atleast fall of 2013. But you know me. Always planning ahead. I mean I started planning when I would be studying abroad in April of 2010...