Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Thursday, November 17, 2016
College Major
College Major
I had an 18-year-old patient starting college as a patient. I asked him what his major was. He said he was combining a psychology and a business major together. I thought what a great idea. His advisor at school couldnt figure out why he wanted to combine the two.
Owning my own business, so many psychological factors enter into how successful a business is. Of course one is how well the staff gets along with each other as well as the patients.
I thought this patient was quite insightful, especially for being so young. It will be interesting to follow his progress.
- Dr. Robert Rothbard
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
Oh My Girl reps respond to verbal harassment at college events
Oh My Girl reps respond to verbal harassment at college events
Article: Oh My Girl reps, "We will be taking protective measures against verbal sexual harassment at college events"
Source: OSEN via Nate
1. [+354, -7] Apparently I read in another comment that a man in the audience had shouted "I want to eat you". I know what school they were performing at, what a way to cut down your own schools image. Whatre you doing to these young kids? Arent you embarrassed?
2. [+361, -37] Men are always accusing women of being jealous haters in the comments but theyre just as big of a problem with all the sexual harassment comments they leave against female idols. I think thats worse than hateful comments. Before you accuse women of being jealous, men need to fix their own comments.
3. [+294, -11] I hope nobody blames this on the idols outfits or choreography as deserving of such comments.
4. [+45, -2] Our country is too insensitive to sexual harassment. Especially middle aged ajusshis...
5. [+29, -0] I bet the idiot who even made that comment is bragging about how theres an article about him now ???
6. [+24, -0] The thing is this group doesnt even have a sexy dance concept...
7. [+19, -1] Another psycho ruining his own schools image
8. [+18, -2] I wish comments like that were considered a sex crime and it went on your record
9. [+13, -1] Consider for a second how youd feel if your mother, nuna, or little sister went around hearing stuff like this ??
10. [+8, -0] Theres a minor in this group too... tsk tsk. If youre that hungry to "eat" something, go dig through the trash...
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Friday, September 2, 2016
What if I Had Gone to College
What if I Had Gone to College
When I got to my dorm room and started to unpack, I couldnt help but wonder what my life would have been like if I had been able to go to college, if I had experienced on-campus living. Going way back, what if my childhood had been different? What if my Dad wasnt an alcoholic? What if my high school career hadnt been about surviving and more about thriving? What if my parents had stayed together and made sure I had that college experience? Would my sisters have showed up to get me settled? What type of friends would I have made? Would some of us still be friends, walking this journey into marriage and motherhood together? What would I have majored in? What would I be doing now? Would Bryan and I have reconnected, gotten married and had Shepherd?
Having this experience made me wonder about a life that had been outside of my reach. It made me yearn for things to have been different so I could have been different... which doesnt really do much anyone much good. But, Ive always been the type to peer at the "other side" of the fence and think it looks better than mine. Luckily, Ive always been smart enough to know that looks can be deceiving and I am where I am for a reason.
As I clutched my book bag and zoomed about campus to wherever I needed to be next, I looked at the students riding their bikes to get from A to B. I took notice of the large brick buildings and the kids sitting on the steps, talking about who knows what, showing each other whatever crazy thing was tweeted, sitting under trees doing homework or nursing a headache from previous nights activities. I was sad. I was sad that it wasnt necessarily a matter of choice that I didnt go to college or live in the dorm. It was a matter of practicality.
I was on my own when I turned 17. Everything I did, I figured it out. I had to get a job and support myself. I was productive and not-at-all a partier. I worked, I lived, I worked. I didn’t hit up bars or drink too much. I never went clubbing. My idea of a hoppin’ Friday night was to grab dinner and see a movie. Woooo! Out of control! I didnt meet up with people at Starbucks to work on homework or to exchange notes. I was happy that I didnt have to study for finals or worry about grades.
A large part of me knew that I wasn’t ready to go to college. I knew what the plan was. Step 1: Gain more and better work experience. Step 2: Get a good job. Step 3: Use good job to pay for college later in life. I always knew I would go back to school. It was never out of the question. When people would ask me, I would tell them that Id be the person that went back later in life to finish up my schooling. Id get some funny looks but I just knew that it was a path that was right for me, even if unconventional. What I didn’t know is that by waiting to attend college, I was giving up a certain type of college experience. It’s a lot harder to be 27+ and connect to the 18+ year olds that are your peers. It’s hard to be a wife and a mom and find other wives and moms that are in college.
Going to boot camp for this program gave me a taste of that. I had dorm roommates (we all got our own room though) and we shared two bathrooms between the three of us. We gathered at night for group projects and sat huddled on our computers trying to make sense of it all. We laughed to break tension and we mediated when people got a little crazy. We extended help to other groups and they did the same.
After a grueling project the night before, our instructors gave us Saturday night without homework, so we hit the local pizza place and then moseyed on over to a bar or two. Most of our group had cocktails while I had a decaf coffee and just enjoyed the atmosphere. It was a little taste of something I had to miss as a youngster and even though it was different, it was good.
It was nice to sample what could have been. It was even better going back home.
**Pictures of USC buildings from Google. In order: Parkside Arts and Humanities dorm where we stayed; Dorm room layout (my room is on the right side); View of the Ronald Tutor Center, where most of our instruction was held, On our way back to the dorms after a night out, our group that stopped to play the piano by the Tutor building (Photo Credit: Claudine); My husband and son in costumes at our friends house in Hawaii.
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