I really need to stop making blogs and then stop writing in them! Lol! A lot has changed since my last post!
Yet again I changed my dissertation idea and finally settled on looking into self-harm and the older generation. I'm glad I did because when I got the feedback from my research proposal I came out with 2:1 so was super happy about that!
Second year kind of flew over in a rather hectic way, and I can't actually remember doing it at all if that makes sense. It has definitely been the hardest year as the workload felt like it was never ending! The exams were so stressful and even resulted in me being at uni to revise on a weekend! Thankfully though, all the hard work and perseverance of this year paid off as I passed all my modules, much to my surprise! I can't express how happy I am knowing that I don't have to look at cognitive psychology again! (At least not that I know of! lol!).
I really need to work my ass off this year though as I only got a 2:2 overall for second year and I really want an overall degree mark of 2:1 so I have a lot of work to do to bring that grade up for this year! Hopefully I'll actually stick with my plans of doing assignments when I get them and not leaving them until the last minute like I did for 1st and 2nd year! I really hope I've learned my lesson! lol!
So, I go back to uni in just under 4 weeks and I am pretty terrified, not really sure what to expect and I feel like I have forgotten everything I've learned the last 2 years! Pretty sure it'll probably come back to me...I hope! My timetable is looking pretty good though, providing lectures don't get changed and I manage to secure the seminar times I want it'll mean I get two full days off a week, and I'll have a seminar on every day that I have a lecture, which should help me keep my attendance up!
Can't really think of anything else to ramble about so gonna leave it at that!
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Change of mind, again!
I figured I'd best update this as I've changed my idea for my dissertation yet again! However, I am 100% sure that this idea will actually stick! Having spoke to Paul and also my dissertation supervisor I have decided to look into the understanding of self-harm (including definitions of self-harm) of those who are not self-harmers.
The main reason for changing my idea was mainly ethics, as I learned it would be very difficult to pass the ethics committee if I was to actually work with self-harmers directly, due the risks that could occur by feelings triggered during the research. The good thing is that I don't have to abandon the idea completely, I am hoping that in a few years time the original topic will be something I can come back to once I have a bit more experience of psychological research.
On top of my dissertation project, there's also a very interesting project happening for my ECA in my positive psychology module. It's basically a report of a positive change that we are going to make about ourselves, I'm super excited to carry out (yes I know, I'm nerdy :P). This week the task has been to observe our behaviour to help us choose what we want to change and it's been a very insightful week so far! There's also public and private blog on our blackboard page which I'm also excited about because I loooooove writing! Lmao! Just hope I don't post too much, or end up posting things that are a bit too personal! Must remember that it's mainly to track progress of how the change is going, and not a counselling site! lol!
Oooh! That's not the only exciting thing that's been happening! We're making a psychology society at the university! I am REALLY excited for that, it's amazed me that one of these hasn't already existed as it's going to be a great way to share ideas, debate topics within psychology and other cool stuff :). One of the things I'm hoping to get out of it is that I might finally find a subject that I am 100% passionate about, at the moment I'm flitting between everything and don't really have an area of psychology that I'm interested in, as I like all of it. Not that that's a bad thing, I just think it would be easier for me in the future to know what areas I'd like to work in (apart from clinical psych) so that I can make choices that suit that, but we'll see :).
One sucky thing has happened, and that is that the module choices this year are a bit pants. More so because the only module that holds any interest to me is the learning disabilities and we have to pick two from the choices, so I'm going to speak to someone this week hopefully, to see if I can get some advice!
Also, maybe I should rename this "University, eek!" as I seem to talk about more than just my dissertation!
The main reason for changing my idea was mainly ethics, as I learned it would be very difficult to pass the ethics committee if I was to actually work with self-harmers directly, due the risks that could occur by feelings triggered during the research. The good thing is that I don't have to abandon the idea completely, I am hoping that in a few years time the original topic will be something I can come back to once I have a bit more experience of psychological research.
On top of my dissertation project, there's also a very interesting project happening for my ECA in my positive psychology module. It's basically a report of a positive change that we are going to make about ourselves, I'm super excited to carry out (yes I know, I'm nerdy :P). This week the task has been to observe our behaviour to help us choose what we want to change and it's been a very insightful week so far! There's also public and private blog on our blackboard page which I'm also excited about because I loooooove writing! Lmao! Just hope I don't post too much, or end up posting things that are a bit too personal! Must remember that it's mainly to track progress of how the change is going, and not a counselling site! lol!
Oooh! That's not the only exciting thing that's been happening! We're making a psychology society at the university! I am REALLY excited for that, it's amazed me that one of these hasn't already existed as it's going to be a great way to share ideas, debate topics within psychology and other cool stuff :). One of the things I'm hoping to get out of it is that I might finally find a subject that I am 100% passionate about, at the moment I'm flitting between everything and don't really have an area of psychology that I'm interested in, as I like all of it. Not that that's a bad thing, I just think it would be easier for me in the future to know what areas I'd like to work in (apart from clinical psych) so that I can make choices that suit that, but we'll see :).
One sucky thing has happened, and that is that the module choices this year are a bit pants. More so because the only module that holds any interest to me is the learning disabilities and we have to pick two from the choices, so I'm going to speak to someone this week hopefully, to see if I can get some advice!
Also, maybe I should rename this "University, eek!" as I seem to talk about more than just my dissertation!
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