The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details- Page 38

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:37pm

Banal interjection: my foot fell asleep.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:41pm

Everyone should study abroad if they have the slightest interest in it. Hands down the best decision I've made.

My thesis is on the role of habituation of cardiac arousal to fear cues in the treatment of children who have specific phobias. And also comparing in vitro vs. virtual reality exposure treatment regimens. I would have just typed the title, but it'll have to be changed because it no longer encompasses what I'm studying. I'm in the lull of data collecting now, but the idea of doing the analyses and making sense of it all makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry. Part of the problem is that my advisor seems to change his mind slightly every time I talk to him in terms of what I should be looking at. Updated On: 4/14/06 at 07:41 PM

[insomniak]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:43pm

*patpat* That's enough to make anyone cry.

I'm sure it is very interesting, but it sounds hard.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:44pm

My major, ironically, encourages you to study abroad. It makes sense, if you think about it, though -- to study American history and whatnot from another angle. I'm toying very loosely with going to London for a semester, but I think I would rather stay here. When I visited a few years ago, finding food I could eat was such a nightmare; I don't know what I'd do for three months.

I haven't met my new adviser yet. She's on leave this term.

Anyway, I empathize. Data collection and analysis, while I love the subject itself, was the reason I opted out of of biopsych.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:51pm

I'm petrified that somehow it will all fall through and a year and a half's worth of work will come to nothing. I'm definitely not confident about it at all.

I know what you mean, Em, but I love the subject so much. Enough to deal with the scary biology and statistics. I never thought about it, but you probably would have a hard time finding things to eat in Europe. Sometimes the best bets, if your school does this, are faculty-led trips over winter or summer breaks. Those are nice because you're not committing yourself to an entire semester, and if you have a good professor can be absolutely amazing.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:53pm

I'm taking a psychology lab now, and sometimes in class I wonder if I made the right decision. I'm still really, really interested in all of this stuff, but I'm too turned off to the really tedious stuff.

I think I would definitely like to go over the summer -- but after this summer, I only have one summer left. What a scary thought....

[insomniak]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:55pm

I think that everything really worth doing has a bitchy side of it- I hate rewriting more than life itself, but it's necessary in order to create a really good story. If you love it, the end result will be worth the pain.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:00pm

It's not even really only that I dislike it, or find it tedious and boring. It's that I just don't understand it, no matter how many times I'm walked through the processes and computer programs.

[insomniak]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:02pm

*shrug* Well, I don't have the answer for you. Hopefully you'll enjoy the other things you're studying.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:06pm

I think that's true, but on the flip side you don't want to spend all of your time doing something that you find totally torturous. It's nice when things are enjoyable at the time and not just in retrospect. But yes, generally if you love something enough it will be worth all of the work.

I guess I have kind of a weird knack for the science side of things. The program that I'm using took forever to get, but eventually started to make sense.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:09pm

I just wish I GOT it. Excel it fine by me, but they have this wacky program here that we're supposed to learn to use? I dunno. My lab instructor sucks... when she even HOLDS class. I've sort of come to the decision that I love reading about the subject, but it's not something I would love to do, practically. One day, I'll make 100% peace with that.

I really do like science, but its relationship to math upsets me.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:16pm

"I really do like science, but its relationship to math upsets me."
Me too. I nearly cried when I learned that astronomy (what I kind of want to study) was mainly chemistry and physics. I thought it was just looking at pretty stars.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:17pm

I wanted to take astronomy, because it's (on the surface, anyway!) really interesting. But I got scared away by the physics and things.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:19pm

Isn't it extremely upsetting? What a let down. :-/

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:21pm

Any other ideas of what you might want to study?

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:23pm

I really have no idea. Psychology, History, English, French, Biology....They're all interesting to me.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:28pm

I used to want to be an astronomer, in elementary school. I'm not sure what happened with that one. I still kind of wish that I could do archaeology or something.

Honestly, one of the things that I found hardest about deciding what I want to do with my life (not that I'm sure even now) is that I'm absolutely equally comfortable doing either math/science or english/history sorts of things. And I enjoy them equally. Decisions would be much easier if I were better at one or the other.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:31pm

We had this thing called StarLab when I was in elementary school. It was like a portable planetarium, so cool. My dad has a telescope at home. I love it, it's really fascinating just to look at the stuff. And I still love to go to planetariums, cause I'm a kid at heart.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:38pm

I have a telescope! I haven't sued it in over a year, though.

Athropology or paleontology would also be really, really, really cool.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:43pm

Anthropology kind of puzzles me, once you get down to the theories and things. I wanted to be a paleontologist or an archaeologist for the longest time. But I'm a huuuge history nerd.

My major is neat because it's not limiting. *pets it*

Bleh. Perpetual state of confusion. I'm so lame.

Updated On: 4/14/06 at 08:43 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:57pm

I just found out a dear friend on the other side of the world has symptoms similar to when he had to have painful surgery some time ago, and I'm having a helpless codependent freakout.

Anyone have any ice cream for me?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:00pm

*gives ice cream*

I'm sorry to hear that, Rath. I hope he's okay.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:02pm

Thanks. Me too.

*shovels in ice cream*

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:02pm

I'm sorry to hear that, Rath. I hope everything's okay!

Per request:


Banal: I think I broke my iPod headphones. One side won't play anymore.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:04pm

Do you prefer chocolate or vanilla?

I'm sorry Rath. The distance probably only makes things harder in situations like this. Do you have a pet to cuddle with?