(Ganked from warrick)

Ten things I would have told myself five years ago...
1. Cancer is scary, but it's not the end of the world. You'll survive and be stronger for it.
2. Don't be so hellbent on thinking you want/have to go to medical school. Grad school (someday) is equally valid and maybe a better choice.
3. Your faith will change a lot during your college years, but this is not a bad thing.
4. Something really bad, like unspeakably bad, is going to happen to you one of these days. I won't say avoid the situation because it's a defining event for you. But don't spend 2 yrs after it happens trying to forget that it did, you'll only hurt yourself.
5. He's your first love, but he's not your true love....don't be afraid to speak up when you realize it's not working. Dragging it out only hurts you both.
6. Take better care of your health, especially your senior year. I know, you think you're fine, but if you don't watch it, it's gonna bite you in the ass HARD in the middle of thesis crunch time.
7. You won't see it coming, at all, but when you fall hard for him (yeah, that other him), don't fight it...it's a good thing, he feels the same way. You guys will have to fight through hell, high water, and more (in fact are still dealing with the high water as I write this), but all signs point towards a happy ending if you just have the patience to take things as they come.
8. Be cautious about getting to close to one of your orientation peoples when you're an OL... she'll be bad news on soooo many levels.
9. Don't be so afraid to ask for help and accept it when it's offered. Save yourself a world of hurt and stress
10. You're going to explore a lot and have whole worlds opened up to you through a few friends you make...go with the flow, you're headed to good places within yourself.

And cuz I feel like it, another one yoinked from William....
Okay everyone. Interview me.
Post 5 questions as a comment to this entry.
I'll post the answers, you know the drill.
If you want to be interviewed, ask here.
I'll do my best to come up with some decent questions
Comments screened, so feel free to ask anything, and I mean ANYTHING.</lj>

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!!

Note: The Catholic Church moved the feast day of St Patrick so that it wouldn't conflict with Holy Week, which is next week.  Not that Monday of Holy Week is particularly special or anything, but they felt it was necessary.  So when did they move it to?  A FRIDAY during LENT.  All you current/former/recovering Catholics (and those who are familiar with Catholicism) on my f-list will get why that amuses the crap outta me.  I think I'm gonna have a burger for lunch, in honor of St Patrick, of course, before I nail myself back to the desk in order to finish my first full draft of my thesis

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Due to some remarks made anonymously by someone I have to assume is connected to my ex, I'm doing a massive friends list cut.  I'm feeling very hurt and somewhat betrayed and feel that I need to protect myself and my space to write about the things on my mind, which at this time include the breakup.

If you get cut (meaning you can't see anything besides like this post and my "comment to be added" post pretty much), its nothing personal, its mostly me cutting my f-list back to only my most trusted friends.  If you want to be re-added, comment on this entry and I probably will.  I just really feel like I need to know that the people who are on my journal are not going to use my words against me or spread them around.

They block myspace, and facebook.  But they don't block livejournal.  Guess I should complain since it'll give me something to do on the uber slowness that is my shift so far today.  Ugh.  Need more caffeine.

Here are my notes from my chapter...hope they help y'all study. If you're not in my theories of counseling class, feel free to disregard this post :) ( Read more... )</span></li></ul></ul></ul></ul>

I ate the cow in the car. -Claire

Somebody's car better be on fire or something. -Megan on how slow traffic is moving btwn Temple and Waco

Problem: Utilizing brief descriptive vignettes, the objective of this study was to investigate whether people’s attitudes towards an individual were affected by the implication of a mental disorder as compared to individuals presented without such an implication.  A second dimension of this study examined whether having a mental disorder or knowing someone with a mental disorder affected attitudes towards those implied to suffer from mental disorder.
 
Method: A volunteer sample of 320 individuals completed an Internet survey in which they read one of six descriptions of an individual and were asked to rate the individual on 8 personality parameters.  There were three pairs of descriptions, one for each symptom condition, each depicting either a male or female individual for each symptom condition.  In one, the individual had no symptoms of mental disorder; in another, the individual had symptoms of depression; and in a third, the individual had symptoms of schizophrenia.  The rating scales used were 7-step semantic differentials with the following word pairs: civil/hostile, unpredictable/reliable, careless/prudent, in control/unstable, harmless/dangerous, irresponsible/competent, crazy/sane, and calm/violent. 

Results: ANOVA statistical analysis revealed that on all eight parameters, ratings by the full sample (with mental disorder, knowing someone with mental disorder, and neither having nor knowing someone with mental disorder) of the three symptom conditions differed significantly (p < 0.001).  Post hoc analysis revealed that on seven of the eight parameters, ratings of the three symptom conditions were distinct from one another at the 0.05 significance level with the two mental disorder vignettes rated more negatively (depression was rated worse than the control and schizophrenia was rated worse than depression).  In the second study, participants who self-identified as having a mental disorder rated the depressed and schizophrenic vignettes more positively on civility, reliability, stability, harmlessness, sanity, and calmness than did participants who did not self identify as having a mental disorder (p < 0.10).  Participants who identified themselves as knowing someone with mental disorder rated the depressed and schizophrenic vignettes more positively on civility, stability, dangerousness, competence, and calmness than did participants who did not identify themselves as knowing someone with mental disorder(p < 0.10). 

Conclusions: The importance of this study is that it illustrates the continued existence of negative attitudes towards individuals with mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia, despite efforts by the mental health movement to reduce stigma towards individuals with mental disorders.  The second study shows that having a mental disorder or knowing someone with a mental disorder affects some attitudes towards those with mental disorder, but not all, a finding that suggests avenues for future research.

Just added some new friends after looking at my user info and realizing like 3 or 4 people had friended me without commenting, so I hadn't added them back. So for future reference, if you add me, go to this post and comment so I can add you and get you put on the appropriate filters, etc.

And now, back to getting school stuff together and tackling some homework, whee.

I just did a quickie calculation based on my final time sheet for this pay period...before taxes my check should be around $885 (actually will probably be a little over that with shift differentials and such, but I didn't feel like doing all that math, hehe)

( Pseudonym meme )

For this next meme, I got L from Shane.  But first, the rules: List ten words that begin with that letter and explain what they mean to you.  (If you want to play, ask me for a letter.) 
( Tagged by Shane )

Something broke in Jeff's car.  His car said "hello wall."  His night is done.  He was running in the top 15, was 6th in the points, but I doubt he'll stay in that spot in the points.  Grr mutter mutter.

Oh, and Tony Stewart broke part of his shoulder blade in a wreck early in tonight's race.  So yeah, the icon says it all.