Well! It's been a whole week since my last post, and believe me, I can feel it in the creaking of every one of my joints, and the way diagrams of the human brain keep floating in front of my eyes. I've only had one class of Physiological Psychology so far, and read the first two chapters of the textbook--as evidenced by the 150 virtual flashcards I've made. Last semester I made the foolish mistake of imagining I had a photographic memory, and made half-assed attempts at studying for the tests in my two psychology courses. Definitely not doing that again. Our first test in Physio's almost two weeks off, but I am all up in that shit. Bring it on, basal ganglia. I'm watching you, apical dendrites. I'm fairly certain that by the end of this semester, I'll have at least 1,000 flashcards for this class, maybe even closer to 1,500. While I'm at it, I'd like to give a shout out to the website http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ for being such a valuable student's resource.
In other, non-neurological news, I'm brainstorming story and poem ideas for my two workshop classes. This is it, ladies and gentlemen: this is the test. If I don't come out of this semester with at least two or three polished, mature pieces in each genre, I may as well crumple up my aspirations of becoming a writer and toss it in the corner like a t-shirt your cat was just sick on. I'll cash in my chips--metaphorically, I mean, cause if I had anything to turn in for real cash, I'd do it in a heartbeat--and concentrate on getting into a decent graduate program for clinical or counseling psychology.
On that front, too, I'm a little wary as I begin my work as one of six undergraduate students assisting a psychology professor with his research. It seems like pretty basic stuff--mostly clerical, data-entry stuff--but the level and quality of my involvement with the team may very well be the double-edged sword that either clinches my acceptance into a good graduate psych program, or nicks that hope neatly in the symbolic nuts. It's particularly intimidating to hear that everyone else on the team, aside from myself and one other, is already neck-deep in some kind of extracurricular psychology research on their own.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't so interested in two different majors/programs/careers. Yeesh.
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