Any Psychologists/Psychiatrists? Thinking of a Career Change

[Sebastian]

If you still want to pursue a Master's degree after 4 years of med school and 4 years of residency, I will personally offer you free counseling.

I still want a PhD in history. I never want to stop learning!

Not hubris. I earned two grad certs while in Army in lulls in training. Love school and love learning.

 

[jvlgato]

That's great! Me too! But how many letters do you need after your name? At some point it starts taking away from actually doing things in life.

Are you familiar with ' The Great Courses' company?

 

[jvlgato]

I should add that my wife the family doctor actually got a Master's in Public Health after completing everything and working as a doc for several years. But she wanted to pursue administration and leadership in large public healthcare systems. So it kind of made sense. Kinda. So it does happen.

 

[Sebastian]

I should add that my wife the family doctor actually got a Master's in Public Health after completing everything and working as a doc for several years. But she wanted to pursue administration and leadership in large public healthcare systems. So it kind of made sense. Kinda. So it does happen.

Enrolled.

Classes start 22 June.

So it begins.

 

[Sebastian]

Holy shit is my math rusty.

Algebra teachers are liars. You don't use most of that shit everyday.

 

[David.]

Holy shit is my math rusty.

Algebra teachers are liars. You don't use most of that shit everyday.

Most math is awful. Stats get fun

 

[Sebastian]

Most math is awful. Stats get fun

Yeah, a lot of schools either want Calc or Stats, some both. I never took Calc so I have to learn that and right now I am seeing how my Algebra II is holding up. Unless I can test out of it I just might have to take it again because it was so long ago.

I have to take a placement test to get into Stats so right now I am doing a crash-course in trying to coax the very vague memories of intermediate Algebra back into being.

Math was never my forte and I avoided it. Now I have to confront it head-on.

It will bend the knee or be destroyed.

 

[David.]

Yeah, a lot of schools either want Calc or Stats, some both. I never took Calc so I have to learn that and right now I am seeing how my Algebra II is holding up. Unless I can test out of it I just might have to take it again because it was so long ago.

I have to take a placement test to get into Stats so right now I am doing a crash-course in trying to coax the very vague memories of intermediate Algebra back into being.

Math was never my forte and I avoided it. Now I have to confront it head-on.

It will bend the knee or be destroyed.

I've studied intelligence pretty thoroughly, and I can't identify why people often excel at verbal concepts over mathematical and vice versa. There's a lot of overlap in these subjects and the concept of intelligence suggests we should be approximately equal in learning between these domains, but anecdotally that's not true.

There's a secret out there that could help learn disciplines we aren't inherently strong on, I just haven't found it.

 

[Sebastian]

I've studied intelligence pretty thoroughly, and I can't identify why people often excel at verbal concepts over mathematical and vice versa. There's a lot of overlap in these subjects and the concept of intelligence suggests we should be approximately equal in learning between these domains, but anecdotally that's not true.

There's a secret out there that could help learn disciplines we aren't inherently strong on, I just haven't found it.

I think it boils down to right brain, left brain. Most are more naturally inclined to one or the other. A few do both.

I breezed to my Masters in PoliSci with little effort. I think this time around it will be very rigorous. The application of much elbow grease will get me through.

 

[jvlgato]

You guys might find this interesting, if you weren't already aware:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences

 

[Sebastian]

@jvlgato Started classes yesterday. Two PSYC classes @Hydroponic3385; 101 and Abnormal Psych (@The Oi favorite).

Had a fellow vet tell the class that he earned the right to be loud and obnoxious (and proper healthcare), told everyone that Trump is going to clean house (to a class 75% Hispanic, Indian, Arab and East Asian), and said all feminists are fat pigs while the professor wore earrings that said "feminist." Yay. He isn't the first, or even second vet that loudly acts like an entitled, rude ass toward people I've met on campus the past week. Fucking Joe never changes. @The Human Q-Tip

What an interesting journey. Spent the weekend partying with three MD residents. I swear, everyone is jaded as fuck. Between everyone I know that recently graduated from Law School and Med School, know that the folks you pay a lot of money to handle your most important issues hate you.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

@jvlgato Started classes yesterday. Two PSYC classes @Hydroponic3385; 101 and Abnormal Psych (@The Oi favorite).

Had a fellow vet tell the class that he earned the right to be loud and obnoxious (and proper healthcare), told everyone that Trump is going to clean house (to a class 75% Hispanic, Indian, Arab and East Asian), and said all feminists are fat pigs while the professor wore earrings that said "feminist." Yay. He isn't the first, or even second vet that loudly acts like an entitled, rude ass toward people I've met on campus the past week. Fucking Joe never changes. @The Human Q-Tip

Speaking only for the Marines, we did a pretty decent job of character building, but there were still plenty of a-holes, and they don't get any better when they leave.

 

[Sebastian]

Speaking only for the Marines, we did a pretty decent job of character building, but there were still plenty of a-holes, and they don't get any better when they leave.

Yeah, assholes are always assholes. When those assholes leave the military and start lording over civilians it is like throwing gasoline on a fire.

It doesn't really help that our society kind of encourages that entitled behavior. I hate how everyone has put the military on a pedestal. I get that it is important to support our vets in light of how the Vietnam guys were treated, and that much of the rah rah stuff is an outgrowth over society's guilt over not serving during our longest war, but it really twists the minds of the dirtbags when they ETS.

 

[jvlgato]

@jvlgato Started classes yesterday. Two PSYC classes @Hydroponic3385; 101 and Abnormal Psych (@The Oi favorite).

Had a fellow vet tell the class that he earned the right to be loud and obnoxious (and proper healthcare), told everyone that Trump is going to clean house (to a class 75% Hispanic, Indian, Arab and East Asian), and said all feminists are fat pigs while the professor wore earrings that said "feminist." Yay. He isn't the first, or even second vet that loudly acts like an entitled, rude ass toward people I've met on campus the past week. Fucking Joe never changes. @The Human Q-Tip

What an interesting journey. Spent the weekend partying with three MD residents. I swear, everyone is jaded as fuck. Between everyone I know that recently graduated from Law School and Med School, know that the folks you pay a lot of money to handle your most important issues hate you.

You'll do great! No problem with psych, I'm guessing.

I'm more worried about the gen chem, organic chems, physics, and other hard sciences. Just because it's so different from what you've studied before.

 

[Sebastian]

You'll do great! No problem with psych, I'm guessing.

I'm more worried about the gen chem, organic chems, physics, and other hard sciences. Just because it's so different from what you've studied before.

Yeah, I wanted to ease back into school. And yeah, it is pretty basic stuff.

It is actually fascinating to be back in class with a bunch of kids. All this is new to them and it is hard to remember how it felt to not know shit. And I find the dynamics of the various ethnic groups interesting as someone who went to school in WI where 95% of the student body was upper-middle class white kids.

The cultural differences are apparent. Five students spoke up in class today. Three were white guys and they seemed very confident and self-assured as they spoke. An African-American woman, an older woman, was more reticent to ask questions while a young East Asian student seemed down-right terrified to have to speak. Socio-economic factors are apparent too. Only a handful of people use laptops during class. Myself and the other white guys. I imagine Sociocultural Psychologists have a lot to say about all of it. @David., you're in school, what is the dynamic at your school?

Chem and Calc will be a bear.