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    MA in Gen. Psychology

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  1. Hey everyone, I'm a new user. And 75% of the way finished through my first semester of my MA in Gen. Psych. When I decided to apply for a Mater's, I thought it was gonna be one of the biggest decisions of my life. But really, the biggest decision was actually accepting the school's offer for admittance along with all of the work it was going to require. I'm straight out of my undergrad. Graduated with a 3.17. I was mainly a B type of student (opposed to straight A's). For most of my classes, I could finish them with a solid B. Most of my psych classes gave tons of extra credit and I banked on that ridiculously hard. I graduated with a 3.40 in my psychology classes. Three months after graduating undergrad, I started grad school. I knew I'd have to put more effort into my studies and make more professional connections. But it is a lot more difficult than I had expected. Tons of information to learn with mainly just a midterm and a final to decide your final grade. I failed my one class' midterm. Got lucky on my second class' midterm and pulled a B. And the lowest grade you can get in the third class is a B-. So I have a B- in that. So my grades are a B, B-, and a D. I haven't began working in a lab, because I feel like I don't have time. I study so hard and still don't know how to get decent grades. The finals are going to be written. With a lot of applying the content learned to reality, which is very hard for me. I just don't know how to study. In my undergrad, I just highlighted within the textbook and read over my highlights repeatedly. I'd pull a B 75% of the time. Extra credit helped me for the 25% that I got Ds and Cs on the exams. Plus it was multiple exams so it was 3 or 4 chapters opposed to 7 on a single exam. I just don't know what to do. I've gone to my professors but they can't help me study. They can just give me advice and such. But it doesn't help. And I become mentally exhausted so easily. I'm not a very social person, not in a school setting anyways. I just keep to myself and take notes. All the friends I made in undergrad were outside of my classes. I didn't really know anyone in my major. I'm one of the youngest in my program, at 22. There's another 22 year old, a 23, and a 24. Everyone else is 26+. And I am the only one in my program who hasn't had a single job psych related. I feel like such an outcast. And the other people in my program are always doing things together. I don't even feel like I'd have the time to go out even if I wanted to. I want to become a counselor. Not sure what type yet, but I want help people. I want to help middle school, high school, and college students get through life. My life growing up was not easy. I had very strict parents which turned me to drugs and alcohol when I was in high school. I got myself through it though and am working to help others. I know that other people wouldn't be able to do what I did and would fall hard in life. I have so many friends that that was their reality. I have the motivation to get me to where I want to be. But I feel like I don't have the skills. I don't have the studying technique. And I'm always tired and not in the mood to talk to people. I try to workout daily but I don't have the time with studying. I'm just really scared that I worked my whole life through so much BS but in the end I'm gonna fall short. I just don't know how to study. I've tried note cards, reading and highlighting. I waste so much time. That's also because I'm a ridiculously slow reader. And I need to take breaks every 30-45 minutes because I become so mentally exhausted. And the courses I'm taking are prerequisites for the program and I have zero interest in them. Grad school is 1,000 levels above undergrad and I just wasn't prepared for it. But I don't have the intellect or resume to get a worthwhile job and I need to figure this out. The only person holding me back from my future is myself, but I feel like I can't overcome myself.
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