Dedicated Learn-Quest

I need to really start pushing myself on this whole grad school thing.  I let myself slack far too much for my own good, which is really quite sad because if I’m honest with myself, I have a good deal of potential and natural talent (at least in learning things).

I had a goal of taking the GRE around my birthday, but I feel like I’m not ready for it, which is primarily because I haven’t been studying as dilligently as I should be.  I have been going over some of the GRE vocabulary I should know, and practicing that with short story writing and such, but it isn’t the vocab part that I’m worried about anyway.  It’s the math.  The math that I used to be so good at and now probably no less than a fifth grader.  (God I hope that isn’t true.)

On the good news front though, Children’s Hospital is starting up their volunteer program at their Psych Unit, which is something I have been waiting for now.  They have an orientation two Wednesdays from now, which I intend to take.  However, I am having second thoughts about whether I should join that unit, since I’m actually really enjoying the Childlife department right now and I know I’ll miss those people.  Plus, the psych unit is going to be more trying and probably even depressing from time to time compared to the Childlife unit.

But I shouldn’t be in this field if I’m worried about a child’s mental disorder depressing me, right?  And there is only one real way to find out if I have what it takes to deal with that population, and that would be to work with them.

It’ll be a worthwhile endeavor in the end.

~ by nonfinis on March 12, 2008.