RubyBright

Hi, mtjamieson! Welcome to our (very little) corner. If you're looking at east coast schools, you may find that many of the schools only do combined master's-PhD programs. Don't be scared off from that - you can definitely still go into industry with a PhD. Plus, you're a lot more likely to find funding in a PhD program than in a master's program. If you do see a school that supposedly offers a terminal master's, do some digging and find out if the program is actually active. 

we've got a TROLL in the house, yo!
not a very good one, but still a troll. 

So by your logic I should feel blessed with a third rated surgeon who failed anatomy but got into medical school because it is a "game". Also obviously I want a loser "psychologist" who "game" into grad school and somehow become licensed and I am suppose to trust that person with my mental health. Right.....

if you get rejected by that many places maybe you are not a very good student and would make a terrible psychologist. Please consider another career.

i'm also not a fan of singling women out as wanting to `find a mate.' first of all, that's completely heteronormative. and in general, it's not everyone's priority. i worked incredibly hard for 4 years to get into this msc program and it encompasses my life (which is fine, that's what i was getting into!). if i decide to continue onto a phd, that's another 4-5 years on top of the 2 i'm looking at now. 
 
6-10 years of hard work will be because THAT is what i want in life and i'm interested in taking care of myself and my interests. yes, it would be nice to find a partner along the way. maybe not from school (probably/hopefully not, even). but i wouldn't drop everything i've worked so hard for because i met someone. 
 
i realize this sounds pretty aggressive but different people have different priorities and i don't like the implication i've seen around here lately that being 22-23 and having never been in a serious relationship means someone is defective.

I respect your wishes and the desire to be a wife/mother, but I am sorry to say your singling out of "women" as a group whose motives you don't understand when different from yours rubs me in the wrong way. Why should women worry about "finding a mate" any more than men should? Nobody will ever criticise the choices you make for yourself for they are YOUR choices and YOUR life, but the sexist overtones of some of your generalized sentiments are bothersome to me and many others.

Well, this is a forum for future and graduate students. For many, "school" is just as much a full-time job/career as it is classes and assignments. Personally — and I'm sure I'm not alone in this — I'm in school (and, during the summers, at work) for what I've wanted to do for the last 20 years of my life, and want to do for all of my forseeable future. Sure, I'd love to be a parent eventually, but I'm going to be in loan debt for a while, and I need to realize my most important goals, most of which revolve around school/research/career things (alongside traveling), before someone else comes into the equation, be it via marriage or parenthood.
 
As aberrant said, I can't be in anything less than a completely secure state — economically, socially, and emotionally/mentally — if I'm going to nurture another human being (likely with the help of another person, who must be in an equally secure state) for, y'know, anywhere between 18 and 26 years. Parenthood and academia are, in many ways, full time jobs. Putting my own academic and career goals before anyone or anything else could be written off as selfish. However, I think committing anything less than my emotional and financial 100% to a child is even more selfish, and that's just not possible unless I feel soul-satisfied with my life. How could I possibly be a role model for pursuing knowledge and dreams if I cast mine aside for a perceived social pressure? My mind would be elsewhere if I didn't feel that my (mostly-academic) personal goals were realized.

^I'm not particularly surprised that posters on a forum dedicated to grad school view grad school as a high priority. The level of self selection seems like it would be very high. Perhaps posters on a dating and relationship forum would have a different view on grad studies

To be perfectly clear, I was never discriminated against academically and I was never "hiding" anything.
 
I've never felt the "boy's club" thing in my field whether socially or academically. Socially speaking, being a male dominated field, you will see male students hanging out in groups a lot of the time (especially when there was only 8 girls in class of 80 in my undergrad). If I'd felt intimidated by intruding on an all-male group perfectly naturally doing male-oriented activities, I might've stayed away. If I'd thought about gender discrimination a lot, I might've attributed my inability to fit in to gender discrimination.
I didn't though. Perhaps, naively, I wasn't aware that I was supposed to be discriminated against based on gender. I just walked up to the all-male groups, said hello, introduced my awkward self and made friends. The group naturally adjusted its social dynamics to suit everyone.
 
Academically, I have never felt discriminated against. I want to earn the respect of my colleagues and professors, both male and female, not because I'm a woman but because I'm good at what I do. It's how it's supposed to work. I worked very hard to be good but comparing myself to close male colleagues and friends I've never had to work harder than they did to earn the same respect.
If there were a couple of guys generally regarded as smarter or better, it was because they were actually smarter and put in more work than I did, and not because they were male and I was female.
 
Some men do think they're better researchers when they're not, but so do some women. I have two co-advisors, one male and one female. They both think they're always right and have the better idea/plan, but clearly they can't both be right when they disagree on scientific opinions so often. It's not some male specific issue but rather than a human ego issue. Unfortunately, the path to becoming a researcher/prof. tends to foster having a bit of an ego about how much better your research is than everyone else's. I've rarely met a "humble" professor to be honest, male or female.
 
I respect both of your opinions, but I don't understand why it's so hard to believe that someone didn't experience gender discrimination just because it contradicts your world view or personal experiences. While I'm 100% certain that there are plenty of women facing real gender discrimination, I find discounting the experiences of women who say they are not and looking for discrimination where there is none is itself discriminatory against both genders: It discriminates against women by belittling their minds and not assuming them intelligent enough to understand their own personal experiences, and by not treating them as adults responsible for their own shortcomings. It discriminates against men by belittling any success they have to favoritism, wrongly attributing gender discrimination to them and making them contend with some invisible unknowable meter of what exactly that is supposed to be.

I'm not a professional but am about to enter a program. The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) webpage has been a great resource in telling me how to prepare for specific jobs and what they entail. I think it's under the "Career" or "Student" section. It's incredibly broad. You can come from engineering, computer science, psychology, maybe even anthropology. What you'll find yourself doing is making anything and everything easier and safer to use. This includes the Internet, cars, airplanes, toothbrushes...

You'll use cognitive psych to understand how and why we perform tasks and how to streamline them for consumer use. You could also be directly involved in the design process by creating prototypes (sketches, CAD) and performing usability tests, speaking/working with people about how to improve something and presenting the data.

A lot of it seems to be consulting but the government is a big employer for space programs and military use (how to make a drone easier to fly with less collateral damage) and web/tech industry is booming.

I hate to break it to you, but clinical psych PhDs and PsyD are brutally competitive. I would strongly suggest prepping for your verbal as well. . You're at the 4% for math and 15% for verbal. I suggest you aim for 50% in both, which require scores in the 150s.

No. Of course it's not a good idea. He was professional and did his job when he needed to (DGS business) but clearly wants nothing more to do with you. You should leave it at that and walk away.

Seriously? "we are girls and we overreact sometimes"? I am a girl and I feel totally insulted by that. WTF?
 
Back on-topic: I really think the OP is reading too much into all of this, TBH. I will say that your behavior seems really unprofessional, both in flirting with him (doesn't matter whether he's married or not, flirting with a prof is always a bad idea), and in asking for a seat in his class, and then dropping it. I would be pissed if one of my students did that, because it is additional work for him to enroll you in his class, esp. if you're from another department. Not to mention the fact that you then didn't even bother to officially drop his class, creating additional work for him and the secretary. Regarding the syllabus: Couldn't you have gotten your hands on it from another student? That's what we do, in order to not bother our professors etc. with trivial crap, and in order to actually get a feel for the class...
 
Regarding all these other events that you chalk up to this professor: 1. If he actually is less than 10 years your senior, I highly doubt his word carries enough weight to influence admin decsions etc. At my unis, oral enthusiastic responses, followed by a written "we'll have to think about it/check/confirm" are completely normal, and more than once ended with a "Sorry, we can't do it". Also, taking into account the fact that most Americans I have met are a lot more enthusiastic, outgoing and positive in the first place, and thereby often phrase things in a way that would be a sure thing for me, as a European, but isn't for them, I really don't think you'll be able to infer anything from their positive or negative response.
2. Regarding the other professor: schedule a meeting or go to her office hours! If she still ignores you there, you might have grounds to complain, though I would highly advise against bringing up your issue with the other professor, because you're basically accusing her of being unprofessional there.
 
As a future course of action, I would advise you to let it go, chalk it up as a learning and growing experience for you as a person (and student), and be more careful in the future. I also wouldn't try to talks to the professor anymore. He's made it abundantly clear he has no interest in talking to you, you guys don't currently have any sort of involvement that would require contact ( as in, you're not in his class etc.), so just let it go, be happy that you were able to drop his class (which is not a given).
 
Hope this helps!

Grumpy cat should be our mascot, actually.

I loved my Coach black canvas with leather trim during undergrad (4 years ago). It doesn't have any obnoxious logos on it and it looks clean and professional all the time. Plus it has a zip top, great for weather and keeping things safe!
It held my entire life while in school: 15" laptop, library books, water bottle, etc. and is still going strong. I'm glad I made the investment because I know it will continue to serve me well for the next 5 - 7 years.
 
If you can find one at a Coach outlet, all the better. Lastly, sometimes they are classified as "baby bags" at coach, so search there too.
 
Good luck!

Not to mention that most psychology students are not clinical students.  I'm in social-health psychology
 
But my advice is also that you can't force anyone to see a clinician/therapist.  You can suggest it.  But if the person responds by yelling and getting angry and refuses to go, then you can't force them unless they are a dependent in your care or a danger to themselves or others.

I really don't think Toni Morrison is a good writer at all.

Items on a checklist can't be assumed to be attributable to a clinical diagnosis.  Degree and context matter, especially with some of the "symptoms" you've listed.  I don't have a copy of the DSM but I would really caution you against jumping to the conclusion that these behaviors are all caused by the same thing or are even pathological.   This list could indicate simple anxiety or it could indicate that the person does not like their life situation (dealing with another person who is sick.)  It is impossible to say.
 
If you are worried that this person will do harm to themselves or others, you should seek professional help in person.

I was surprised that I got into...anywhere.  

Background story:

I only have a 3.2, and a guidance counselor told me not to bother applying anywhere.  She said I wouldn't get in anywhere decent.  I went ahead and applied anyway.  And I guess all the undergraduate research paid off.  I think my grades were offset by the fact I was in ROTC for the first half of college... it was tricky to juggle a math-heavy major while in the program (I'm not a math whiz).
 
And here I am, 12 months after she told me not to bother applying, getting ready to go to Hopkins, the top school in my field so glad I didn't listen!

My thoughts exactly.  Not to minimize your problems, but babies are so amazingly wonderful!
As others have mentioned, I've heard dissertation phase is actually a relatively good time to have a baby, because you have the most flexibility in your schedule.  Our department is more family-friendly, I think, as some of the students had kids before they joined the program.  Another person in the program had a baby in what would have been her second year of classes; they arranged for her to do more in the summer, to make up for not getting a stipend one semester.  Now she's back in classes, and besides all the normal mom craziness is back to the normal routine.  So, even when it's at a less convenient time, it can be done.
All this to say that your DEPARTMENT is the problem, not you or your baby.  If they want to be sexists (I don't use that term lightly) and seek to further limit the opportunities of women to be in academia, you don't have to apologize to them.  (I'm really ticked off on your behalf right now.)
In addition to scoping out your school's policies (the graduate student center or student senate may point you to the right sources, if you don't know individuals), it's worth scoping out what benefits your boyfriend has for "paternity leave" -- some companies are actually pretty generous.  If you come to your adviser with a plan in place -- how much time you'll need off, how your boyfriend is also making sacrificing, how you will arrange things after maternity leave, etc. -- then I think you will still appear like your professional self.  Rumors do spread quickly though, so I think it's best to tell your adviser once you have a plan in place, before it spreads to everyone else in the department.
Lastly, you need to buy this:
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Just got an email, I'm in!!!  Accepted off the wait list (late application) for University of Oregon Special Education.
 
Now to figure out funding...

Just got a call from the DGS!

ACCEPTED!

Fully funded! Hopkins!

So many exclamation points!!!!!!!!

NCLB says otherwise.

Sounds like you've carefully thought this through, and you will do the best with what you have. Good for you :-) You never know, in the year ahead, you *might* find external and/or internal funding...
 
Anyway, good luck in the road ahead, and I sincerely wish you all the best! 

Is there a consolidated source that lists the impact factor for ALL journals (or those in a given sub-field), not just those by a particular publisher?
 
I'm cleaning up some research from my M.S. and trying to figure out where to submit it.  Thought knowing the impact factors for the journals in my field would be a good starting point, but that info doesn't seem to be consolidated anywhere...