Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Academic Advising

effective vs. not?

Can't believe I'm seriously considering going back for more school. Crazy? Perhaps a little.

Did you know that the MA in Clinical Psyc programs here in BC are super impossible to get into? For example, out of 129 applicants last year for one of them, 7 were admitted. That leaves 122 applications in the garbage can. Why do I even bother? Gawd dammit, resist being weeded out!! I will not be screwed over by the system that I so loathe. Should shoot myself for even considering jumping through hoops for them. Conflict central. Did you also know that an average student takes 7.7 years to complete a PhD?

Ughh, I don't understand. Perhaps this is like first learning statistics. You either get it or you don't. You try and you try, hopefully one day something will click and everything suddenly makes sense. Perhaps going to school would be a good way of buying time to think. Without guilt that is.

Since grad, I wake up every morning thinking that there should be more to life than this. And there is, I'm sure of it.

The guest speaker at my convocation last thursday was a 90 year old environmental activist.

His advice was to pick something you think you'll like doing and go for it.

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