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this look fun? This is fun to literally NO ONE. 🤣 Might as well be trying to read Chinese.
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Well, what I meant by that, is at the time when I was considering going back & getting a 2nd degree - my summer school professor, who was like really into the research & clinical side of things, and what I loved about him best, was that he'd always give us, and apply practical applications & real world examples for us as a class of students, to use and get a preview for, what life MIGHT BE LIKE: One-Day - should we choose to go on & pursue a career in the field of. One side bar to all of this, he would offer up insight such as this, although he got his doctorate from the University, which is supposedly, super competitive from within the field, as you're competing against so many other students for only a small number of open positions (as the school is going to be, essentially, funding your studies & your education in the hopes of you providing ample & good re-search for them), whereas with something more like a Psy. D (which was akin in his eyes or words, to going to a dental school) because they then had to take loans out for that 5 year program, or whatever it was, and that too, was going to I guess be much more heavily weighted & emphasis placed on clinical applications (instead of research like at a Ph. D program somewhere). But what he was saying was, that statistically the Ph. D students all did consistently well & better, or as in scored higher marks on the, oh it's been so long now, what do you call it? The licensing national board thing you have to take upon completion before entering into the work force thing? Yes, I believe that's exactly what it's called, or it's definition! ; ) but, he said this could also be explained by the fact that, simply numbers wise, there are so many more psy d. students/or candidates than the other. And so that it doesn't necessarily mean that they (the doctorates) are any smarter, it's just that that is the way it is. He may have said something more, but I've forgotten now what it was/or is! Another interesting peculiarity about him. He had a few pain in the butt, stickler for rules, or ways in which you'd better not bend, never mind or let alone, "break!" one of which, do not go standing outside his door 5 minutes before his office hours are to commence. As this will inevitably, 'DIS-TRACT!' Him. And cause him to lose, or shift his focus. And I guess that, he can't be affording to waste any extra precious seconds on all of that. He did say that Stats are one of the classes that the dept. uses to "Weed-Out," the students from its program (psych). As it does not, in general anyway, come naturally to many of them. But it is obviously going to be essential, should you go on to pursue your studies further beyond that particular given level. And so we had something that was known as a B. A. S. ("Applied,") in that - it was like a three term process / research project conducting & design type thing that you worked on w/a prof). I ended up, SOME HOW, now don't ask me how, because I have no idea, getting 2nd highest grade in that class. And the woman who'd beat me out, well, I don't think she did so by much, as we were neck-and-neck throughout. But I didn't feel so badly, as she was the type of student, who you'd expect to be taking home the top spot, in that class (stereotypcially, anyway). And so then, sometime shortly after that, I'd pulled the plug on that (idea, or experiment). Later on, my clinical director at an I.R.T.S., facility, who had a pH d in biology, then went back & got her social work graduate degree. Told me, "You don't go back & get your second degree, first. You take your first one, and then you just go & do your other grad school program, or whatever it was..." (I mean, I'm sure there are going to be cases where, you'll/you'd need some pre-requisites, or something, but other than that, it was something that I did not know. And so, was all new to me!
She was, the clinical supervisor, now, simply one of the smartest people I've ever met in my life (as you can imagine w/a background like that). I got to sit in on some of her assessments and that mind was a flyin' like a'clock work. "oriented to time & space," & all this other crap~*/>
