Its Over

So in my last post or so I was complaning about the internship process. Yeah so that is over and I am glad for it to be over. To have to make such an important decision in a matter of minutes was actually easier then I thought it would be. I actually made a ranked list of my preferencs and waited for phone calls. When the call was negative, i highllited the place in red strikethrough bold. When I was offered a site, I placed them on hold, and then called the sites ahead of it. While waiting I highlighted the site with a green color. Eventually i worked my way up the list and found a site I relaly liked that wanted me.

So where am I going? Well part of that I cannot say. What i can tell you is that I will be working with people with severe psychopathology in an elderly population. This site presents soem inteesting challenges in that some of these people need different types of psychotherapies but are dealign with other issues. For example a person at this place might be suffering from Schizophrenia as well as Alzheimers. I should learn alot from here and get a lot of good expierence.

From what I understand I am going to spend between 20-24 hours there per week, so I will be getting a lot of expierence for the year long placement. It should be an exciting oppertunity. I am just glad the application process is over!

Thanks Robert

Ok Robert, so I took your little quiz survey on your blog(see link on left side of page) and found some interesting results.

Your Dominant Intelligence is Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

You are great at finding patterns and relationships between things. Always curious about how things work, you love to set up experiments. You need for the world to make sense - and are good at making sense of it. You have a head for numbers and math ... and you can solve almost any logic puzzle. You would make a great scientist, engineer, computer programmer, researcher, accountant, or mathematician.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

4+2+1

So I am in the midst of my extenship practicum interviews and I am hatign this process. I have to tell you that this has got to be one of the DUMBEST ways to do things. I am serious, there are some rules and regulations that we have to follow. I do not know if it is the way the school does it, but the process of accecpting offers is asinine. Allow me to share this:

"Make a rank ordered list of sites you would like to be placed with next year based on your interview experiences. This will help you make informed decisions based on your interests rather than emotions the morning of the 28th when sites begin to call.

· If your #2 site calls at 9am, you may ask them if you can think about the offer and get back to them within a specified time period (it is up to them how much time they may or may not give you). If they let you put them on "hold" you may then call your #1 site (I would wait until 9:30 or so to give sites a chance to place calls first if you can given your time constraints from site #2) to see if you are being considered for an offer. If they say yes I was about to call you, then accept their offer and immediately call site #2 to let them know you have accepted elsewhere, but thank them for their consideration.

· Sites may not allow you to put them on hold and will want an answer on the spot. You will need to make a decision at that point whether to accept or decline and wait for sites higher on your list to call.

· Once you accept an offer, you are done with the process. A verbal acceptance is binding on your part and the site's part. "

How incredidibly dumb is that? They want you to make a decision that will affect your life for a full year on a matter of minutes not days. When applying to grad school I was given several weeks to make a decision, whereas here we are essentially given just an hour or so.

I reiterate, the process is asinine.

So?

Yes, I realize it has been a while since my last post, but I have just not been up to it. I am in the midst of mid term season with 1 paper, 2 presentations, an analysis, and an exam and have been pushing myself quite hard. Becuase of that, I started feeling fatigued and needed to slow down a bit. On top of that the first couple of the interviews that I am doing for an externship practicum expierence are scheduled(3 done) and I am getting ready for the others.

Of the mid terms projects, only the analysis is left, so I need to get that done beofre my fourth interview tomorrow. Throw in a seocndary interview on Tuesday, and you can see what I have been dealign with.

Oh, and I need ot sign up for summer classes next week.