Let's just say for an alleged 17 year old it is very disturbing.

There are things on there that I have only just realised tonight.

Just stumbled across the profile of someone who's 'still in school, only a teenager', is apparently someone's Mistress and has written tons of BDSM fics. So wrong.

I get so confused with all the time zones  - the only time I know what time it is anywhere is when I'm using my iPad as it's got a world clock app on it. 

Stopped by Clintons to buy a birthday card today, the queue was out of the shop! Absolutely crazy. There was also no chickens or pork roasting joints in Tesco by me It looked like some sort of apocalypse scene!


So I have to use this very complicated online system to pick my dissertation topic. We have to choose 3 we're most interested in and they'll offer one of them - if they can't offer us any then you have to pick again, though of course this time there's less there and you get shafted with something crap. There is one that I'm interested in, but it seems to require you to take a full year out working on it before you can enter in third year and start writing it up.. trying to decide if it's worth it, though being in education for another 3 years doesn't appeal.

So far I've requested a dance therapy topic for working with special needs kids, another on group learning in schools and one on false memories in children. Fingers crossed I get at least one of them!

So I have to use this very complicated online system to pick my dissertation topic. We have to choose 3 we're most interested in and they'll offer one of them - if they can't offer us any then you have to pick again, though of course this time there's less there and you get shafted with something crap. There is one that I'm interested in, but it seems to require you to take a full year out working on it before you can enter in third year and start writing it up.. trying to decide if it's worth it, though being in education for another 3 years doesn't appeal.

So far I've requested a dance therapy topic for working with special needs kids, another on group learning in schools and one on false memories in children. Fingers crossed I get at least one of them!

Pffft - What would I know? I only have two degrees in Education and have worked with children for 20 years.

The dance therapy one requires a year, from the looks of it. I'd be working in a school a few days a week (unpaid, mind) and helping implement a dance therapy program, then doing questionnaires etc to test it's effectiveness. The only thing I'm confused by is that if I do that for a year, surely when I come back in the September afterward I'll have no project left to do, and technically you're not meant to begin writing it up until the start of 4th year.

I have no idea why it's so complicated, but I feel as if I need a degree just to work it all out! They give a research title, then a brief description and you have to 'request project' if you're interested. They have 'selection waves' where they give out projects to people and because there's 400 people in my year group, competition is fierce. If you don't get any of the ones you want, you have to choose again out of what's left (i.e. what other people didn't want). It means you can end up doing something you have no interest in, and considering it's a whole experiment you need to devise, run and analyse - that's no fun!

Psychology degrees aren't half confusing, and that's just the admin side!

I don't think you've got quite enough experience - do you not fancy doing another degree?