Well, the funding situation seems to be under control for now. If the new Governor decides to slash UNC budgets by 8% in January, though, we're all hosed. Time will tell.
This has been an evil week. Very little sleep combined with high demands on my brainpower equal a very exhausted and sickly-feeling me on this Friday morning. And I still need to make it through the day, learning and proving my efficiency at administering a variety of reading assessments.
This weekend (maybe Sunday if the rain cooperates with my need to actually rest), we will run 20 miles. In my current state of exhaustion, I predict that my running partners will run 20 miles while I make a valiant attempt to do so myself.
The only other news I have to report is that the powers that be in my program have told me that I can finish in 4 years, including my year-long internship. What that really means is that next year will be ridiculous, with me taking 15-16 hours each semester (9 is full-time in grad school). Then I'd be proposing my dissertation, taking prelims, and applying for an APPIC internship early in the Fall of my third year. The rest of the third year would be really light, mostly working on the dissertation, and then the fourth year would be internship. I'm not sure if it will play out exactly like that (there aren't really any APPIC sites in NC that would work for school psych so I might have to leave the state...), but it would be nice to have only 3.5 more years of school - especially if they cut funding.
And that's life for the moment: school, school, school.
This has been an evil week. Very little sleep combined with high demands on my brainpower equal a very exhausted and sickly-feeling me on this Friday morning. And I still need to make it through the day, learning and proving my efficiency at administering a variety of reading assessments.
This weekend (maybe Sunday if the rain cooperates with my need to actually rest), we will run 20 miles. In my current state of exhaustion, I predict that my running partners will run 20 miles while I make a valiant attempt to do so myself.
The only other news I have to report is that the powers that be in my program have told me that I can finish in 4 years, including my year-long internship. What that really means is that next year will be ridiculous, with me taking 15-16 hours each semester (9 is full-time in grad school). Then I'd be proposing my dissertation, taking prelims, and applying for an APPIC internship early in the Fall of my third year. The rest of the third year would be really light, mostly working on the dissertation, and then the fourth year would be internship. I'm not sure if it will play out exactly like that (there aren't really any APPIC sites in NC that would work for school psych so I might have to leave the state...), but it would be nice to have only 3.5 more years of school - especially if they cut funding.
And that's life for the moment: school, school, school.
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