turtle_shell

I was inspired by the music thread but thought that we could all post songs regarding our waiting and anything related to it: anxiety, rejection, relief, etc - anything from the silly to the serious that can help us get through the waiting in a musical way I'll start Waiting for your letter - Cary Brothers

gift horse

birth control

Paper mache pinata.

call waiting

Dry Run

zombie apocalypse

full speed

I am an absolute exercise DVD junkie. I love to workout but not a fan of gyms.

For those of you are interested in International or Comparative Education what kinds of careers are you pursuing? I'm interested in the field but am unsure of where it leads.

I'm currently a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Middle East, teaching English. Being here has made me pique my interest in graduate school. I haven't yet narrowed down my interests but I'm thinking about something in the field of social psych, cultural psych or educational psych. I'm very interested in cross-cultural issues in psychology and would like contribute to this research field. I graduated 4 years ago, my undergrad GPA was 3.72 and I majored in psychology and political science. I haven't taken the GRE yet but my practice scores are around 1300 combined for verbal and quantitative and I'm continuing to study for it here. My transcript and extra-curricular activities can reflect an interest in social or ed psych as well as cross-cultural activities. What I'm worried about is my weak background in math and research. I have a year of statistics and the intro course to research methods but that's about it. I worked as a 'research' assistant for a psychiatrist with his research projects but it was mostly just data entry and conducting clinical interviews. As sort of a bonus, he gave me course credit for research in the bio dept for one quarter although i worked him for a year. But I don't have anything like an undergrad thesis or even upper div statistics or advanced research methods. During undergrad I had planned into going into clinical psych rather than research psychology so I never made research a focus in my studies. I have a lot of 'real-world' multi-cultural experience from studying abroad, working with delinquent youth through AmeriCorps and now being in the Peace Corps but is any of that valuable in the research world? I finish my service summer 2010 and will probably start applying for grad school after that when I narrow down my interests (and get a better perspective on what the economy is like), but do you have any advice? Am I out of my league for a PhD program in psych? Should I consider pursuing a MA first? Any RPCVs out there that feel that their Peace Corps experience might be slightly useless in some graduate studies? :?