Get a PhD

I have finished all of my classes and my comprehensive exams but I am STILL STRESSED! All I have to do is work on my dissertation and apply for internship next year but I am still getting pressure to do research and publish journal articles. I don’t want to be an academic or researcher anymore! I don’t want to do research anymore! But I keep getting pressured.

I passed my comprehensive exams!!!!

On Monday I handed in my paper for the last part of my comprehensive exams! I hope that they don’t send it back for revisions because I want to be finished already. It was so draining and the whole process was horrible! I just want to move on. Now I have to finish my dissertation proposal and get ready to apply for my clinical internship. I hate school!

On Friday of last week I finished my last Ph.D. class!!!!

I finished my second last class today. I have two papers and a presentation left in my last class. I just have to keep going a bit longer and then the worst part is over!

I’m really bored with my classes right now. I just have to hold on a bit longer and then I’ll be finished. No more university classes ever again! I have to keep my eyes on the prize. Just a little bit longer, 3 weeks!

Well, thanks to my wonderful Palm Pilot I have figured out creative ways to learn. I uploaded the code of ethics and mental disorders classifications to my Palm so that I can look at them whenever I want. These items will make a good addition to the databases I already have for neurological disorders and medications. I also found a program that will allow me to create quizzes for myself on the material so that I can memorize everything. When I have spare moments I can always be doing the quizes. I am no good at videogames but I can do this! Plus, everything I got was FREE!

I have come so far. This semester I will finish my last class. Unless I make a major goof or get involved in a scandal I think I will graduate. I’m doing what I need to do. No, unlike some students I don’t live in the school and work 18 hours a day…I don’t think I have to. More importantly, I DON’T WANT TO. I want to have a life outside of school and work. I want to be a psychologist, not the best psychologist who earns the most money, writes the most books, and publishes the most research. I just want to help people and I am qualified to do that. Hell, I already have the qualifications to be a psychological associate. I can do this job!

If finished my last large class presentation yesterday! This is the last time I will have to speak for 45-60 minutes for marks! I still have to defend my dissertation proposal, do my case presention, and eventually defend my dissertation. But I will just be given a pass fail for them. I also have a 20 minute presentation this semester but I don’t think it will be a big deal. I can’t wait until I don’t have to be graded anymore!

This semester I will complete my last two classes for my clinical psychololgy degree. Then I will have to finish 1-2 more practicums, take my comprehensive exams, finish my dissertation, and complete my 1-year internship. It will be so amazing not having to do assignments and not have to go to class!!!