Senior Year

My senior year has started off with a bang... lots of school work right off the bat and an awesome Pumpkin Fest this October. While we did not bring the title back to Keene, there were more pumpkins than needed in one single place. The food like always was good, but even better was the fact that the Boston Red Sox won their game that night also.
I am currently pondering the importance of study for an exam tomorrow because quite frankly I've done enough work the past week. I can not wait for this week to end because I'm off to Providence Rhode Island for the first time. Not only do I get to go to the NEACSM conference but I get some serious shopping time in! I am not much of a shopper but when the holiday season comes, I get very excited about getting gifts for my family and friends.
Class time has come so I must be going, but I think I may get into the habit of writing more often...

Finals

As my finals come to an end my stress level is slowing going down. I have begun to recieve my grades today and that has made my stress levels spike and I have to admit I have become an email checker addict. Since technology allows us to recieve our grades through our email I am constantly checking to see if a new one has popped up yet. I did have a near heart-attack when I recieved a very low mark for a class I have enjoyed going to and done well in. After tracking down the teacher and voicing my concern, the grade did not stand because he had not put in my mid-term grade. He graded the exam but it never made it into his computer, talk about a relief!

Goodluck to everyone on the rest of their test, and those who are graduating good luck in the real world!

FINALS WEEK

SO my presentation didn't crash and burn on Wednesday so I can't complain to bad... although I missed some information I wanted to share, but that is ok... I didn't do too bad.

This week is HELL week aka finals week. Although most of my finals were take home exams, I'm super stressed out, and I would like to say that Abnormal Psychology was the only exam that was NOT a take home... I am so throughly disappointed!!

Well back to studying.. GOODLUCK everyone!

Presentations

The presentations on Monday were all very good. I enjoyed all of them, but the one that stood out the most was the one that contained a young man speaking openly of a friend who has been having a very difficult year. The gentlemen has bi-polar disorder and personality disorder, and unfortunately has not been hanging out with the "right" crowd. I hope that things look up for both of them and they are able to continue their friendship.

As I had hoped I was bumped to Wednesday, which is very thrilling for me. I am a natural procrastinator so any reason not to do something is fine with me. I have been doing well this year because I haven't left too many projects to the last minute. I tend to leave papers until the night before but things that require presentation I give a few days. I do better at writing papers at the last minute, those that I spend an extensive amount of time on and done weeks in advance are the ones that get a lower grade. Which is odd because you would think that since I had so much time to revise it that it would be graded higher, but it is not the case so I will continue my last minute work.

The year is slowly coming to an end, which of course I am somewhat sad about but in truth I can't wait to be out of school! I will have a week off and then I will be working. Unfortunately I don't have a permanent job this summer because I am switching gears. For the past four years (five in June) I have been working at retirement community as a waitress in their dining room. It is a very fancy place and the residents pay a good chunk of change to live there. I enjoy it very much but the residents that were there when I started having started to die and the new people are great, it is just getting harder to work there. So I am going in the complete opposite direction and have applied to numerous jobs at summer camps.

Well I just went off on quite the tangent! Time to go do some work.. yes it is due tomorrow if you were wondering!

Class Cancelled

So as I mentioned before Wednesday's class was cancelled.... Which allowed me to catch up on some work I definitely needed to do!
Hope you all enjoyed the day off!

Presentations

For the next few days we are presenting to the class information and a case study we found on a certain disorder. On Monday there were some very interesting ones. I liked Shane's because he added his own personal story which made the information that much more powerful.

Wednesday we do not have class, which of course I am thoroughly disappointed about! So that means the presentations for Wednesday are moved back a day, which means that quite possibly my presentation due Monday will be bumped. Yet again I so disappointed by this series of events, so it may take a while for me to recover from my disappointment.

Ironic

Today we started class with a short discussion about our presentations. We have to pick a disorder in which we have studying during the semester.. yada yada yada. So I don't enjoy presentations, I don't enjoy speaking in front of people at all... and I realized how much anxiety I had when thinking about speaking in front of people. And then I remembered, I am tutor for a Fundamentals Of Speech class... hmm that is a little ironic!

Anyways... we reviewed tick disorders. The one I found most interesting was Trichotillomania aka hair pulling. I was curious to see if the people who have this disorder, know what they are doing while they are physically doing it. I would think that it would be painful, and socially unacceptable. I mean people seem to prize long hair. People who have cancer treatments and lose their hair are given sympathy for their disease and hair loss.

I decided to do some research on Trichotillomania and found this website, in case anyone is interested in learning more... http://www.trich.org/index.asp