Hello My Beautiful Jewels and Gems,

So being a psychology major was very challenging. The classes usually only had about three exams, and they were heavily weighted.

In addition, the material was very dense. Normally each exam covered about five chapters, and it was a lot of memorization.

Most of the time the test questions were situational. Therefore, not only did you have to know the material, but you also had to be able to apply it. Maybe it would not have been so difficult if I only had one class like this, but many times I had to take about two at a time. That only covered part of my load.

In order to graduate in 5 years, I had to take 5 classes at a time. Usually, I had one or two psychology classes, general education classes, and later communication classes.

Whenever, I told someone that I was a psychology major, they always figured that I was psychoanalyzing them. Which I found completely ridiculous. If you ask other people with psychology degrees they will tell you the same.

Stats never agreed with me, but I challenged myself and took up to advanced statistics before I graduated, because I knew I wanted to go to graduate school.

I expected to take a lot of fun and interested classes as a psychology undergrad, but I found that the required courses were pretty boring most of the time.

I took the classes that I needed to take to qualify for a graduate program so I had to miss out on fun classes like Psychology of Personality and Abnormal Psychology. Instead, I had to take classes like Learning and Memory.

I found it to be very technical and logical. There was a lot of research driven instruction which depending on the topic could be interesting, but I am sorry to say was pretty dry most of the time.

The most difficult part was figuring out which area of psychology that I would further my studies in. Most of my peers had this problem too.

However, I was able to find an area after much research, an internship, and many personal conversations! More on that later.

These would leave me far from what I had originally thought I would do as a “back-up” to my acting and modeling dreams!

Next week, I will share all about my psychology internship, and how that left me at a crossroad of confusion in my undergraduate career! More on that later.

Until Next Weeks My Loves!

xoxo

Chauntel