Wow I'm such a bad God mother. I just realized as I was typing up my to do list that today...well a few minutes ago was my cousin/God daughter's 4th birthday. I knew there was something I was missing today. Aside from that I can't believe today is Halloween. I really feel so detached from it this year. It feels so distant and not as festive and yet apparently there was a guy on campus wearing a superman cape and not much else and ran into my professor. She was flustered and laughing. Too bad I didn't see it. Last week I did see a few people in costumes. I guess they were on their way to a party. I also ate a bag of assorted candy, but I didn't buy it for Halloween. I was worried that it wouldn't last me until Halloween, but I guess it did. I have a handful of candy left.
Rent is due after tomorrow. I'm also having roommate issues. She's feeling lonely and is thinking of moving in with her "church" family. It's not like she's ever around, so I don't know what the heck she's talking about. I don't know what her decision will be. Either way I will be screwed if she doesn't find a replacement. I just hope whoever she/we find is going to be someone normal, quiet and responsible.
Today I also got our video project and reaction papers back as well as our group project (individual) grade and turned in two papers as well. Glad to get those out of my grasp. I was pleasantly surprised with my scores though. I guess it is evident on how freaking hard you have to work to get your grades. Yet, somehow I feel like I'm getting ripped off or something. I don't know. I guess I wish they had a larger grading scale or point system. Maybe I'm preferring the tests over doing a ridiculous amount of papers and field work assignments. Not only is it time consuming and highly objective, but you seriously can't track your progress. I mean I'm sure I've been improving, but it's really hard to say how much or where when we do so many things and each assignment builds on something else and focuses on a different task. Maybe I'll be less confused once my practicum begins next year. That is also freaking me out at this point. I don't know where I'll be doing my practicum. I certainly do not think I'm anywhere near ready, but we do have two more semesters before then (we don't get summer off--not that I ever took summers off anyway).
What I'm slowly checking off my list is actually what I thoght would be the most nightmarish project ever. Our case study assignment. I won't lie. It's a whole lot of work. So much so that even the district Sp Ed supervisor for LAUSD was apprehensive in allowing me to conduct parent interviews on a case study. My professor is a district supervisor for LBUSD, so she was able to talk to him. He eventually let me do it, but I decided to go with a different case instead since this one was taking forever. I got really lucky cause my awesome classmate, also a behavioral therapist and a second year grad student, had a child who matched my profile. Anyway that is not to say the assignment was easy. By no means has it been. I've had to drive to the school site several times to do interviews, observations and such. I'm glad I was able to avoid a trip there for the psych report and another interview with the teachers. I also had to do an inhome interview with the parent. I also have to meet with the parent again for additional information. These trips are totally killing my gas (I drive an SUV). The major plus to this assignment is I get to understand a whole lot more in what an SP does and the types of information we need to collect with doing an assessment and psych report. I also got to meet a really awesome family and a really great kid. I'm glad I'll be able to help them out with my evaluation.
My nightmare project now is the 20 pg experimental research paper. The paper itself isn't a problem. It's getting raw data to fit my research hypothesis. We are not allowed to use secondary sources. We need a data base to conduct our statistical analyses. Now I could easily do my paper if I knew what data I had access to and where to look, but I have no idea where to find this crap. I guess I should just start looking at public data bases. The things is a lot of the data outthere isn't collected properly or is lacking in a lot of information. *sigh*. I was thinking I would just collect my own data, but that would take forever and would probably produce insignificant results and an unrepresentative sample anyway. Well I guess I'll stop complaining and try to get to sleep. I have another paper due next week coupled with two quizzes. The fun never ends. I'm just glad I can easily get caught up with the reading. I'm so proud of myself actually reading these books. I wonder how I would have done in undergrad if I actually read the chapters I was supposed to?
Rent is due after tomorrow. I'm also having roommate issues. She's feeling lonely and is thinking of moving in with her "church" family. It's not like she's ever around, so I don't know what the heck she's talking about. I don't know what her decision will be. Either way I will be screwed if she doesn't find a replacement. I just hope whoever she/we find is going to be someone normal, quiet and responsible.
Today I also got our video project and reaction papers back as well as our group project (individual) grade and turned in two papers as well. Glad to get those out of my grasp. I was pleasantly surprised with my scores though. I guess it is evident on how freaking hard you have to work to get your grades. Yet, somehow I feel like I'm getting ripped off or something. I don't know. I guess I wish they had a larger grading scale or point system. Maybe I'm preferring the tests over doing a ridiculous amount of papers and field work assignments. Not only is it time consuming and highly objective, but you seriously can't track your progress. I mean I'm sure I've been improving, but it's really hard to say how much or where when we do so many things and each assignment builds on something else and focuses on a different task. Maybe I'll be less confused once my practicum begins next year. That is also freaking me out at this point. I don't know where I'll be doing my practicum. I certainly do not think I'm anywhere near ready, but we do have two more semesters before then (we don't get summer off--not that I ever took summers off anyway).
What I'm slowly checking off my list is actually what I thoght would be the most nightmarish project ever. Our case study assignment. I won't lie. It's a whole lot of work. So much so that even the district Sp Ed supervisor for LAUSD was apprehensive in allowing me to conduct parent interviews on a case study. My professor is a district supervisor for LBUSD, so she was able to talk to him. He eventually let me do it, but I decided to go with a different case instead since this one was taking forever. I got really lucky cause my awesome classmate, also a behavioral therapist and a second year grad student, had a child who matched my profile. Anyway that is not to say the assignment was easy. By no means has it been. I've had to drive to the school site several times to do interviews, observations and such. I'm glad I was able to avoid a trip there for the psych report and another interview with the teachers. I also had to do an inhome interview with the parent. I also have to meet with the parent again for additional information. These trips are totally killing my gas (I drive an SUV). The major plus to this assignment is I get to understand a whole lot more in what an SP does and the types of information we need to collect with doing an assessment and psych report. I also got to meet a really awesome family and a really great kid. I'm glad I'll be able to help them out with my evaluation.
My nightmare project now is the 20 pg experimental research paper. The paper itself isn't a problem. It's getting raw data to fit my research hypothesis. We are not allowed to use secondary sources. We need a data base to conduct our statistical analyses. Now I could easily do my paper if I knew what data I had access to and where to look, but I have no idea where to find this crap. I guess I should just start looking at public data bases. The things is a lot of the data outthere isn't collected properly or is lacking in a lot of information. *sigh*. I was thinking I would just collect my own data, but that would take forever and would probably produce insignificant results and an unrepresentative sample anyway. Well I guess I'll stop complaining and try to get to sleep. I have another paper due next week coupled with two quizzes. The fun never ends. I'm just glad I can easily get caught up with the reading. I'm so proud of myself actually reading these books. I wonder how I would have done in undergrad if I actually read the chapters I was supposed to?
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