Sometimes I feel stupid for picking psychology as a major because I'm probably not going to be able to find a job after I graduate, at least not in that field with a bachelor's degree, and there is no way on earth I can afford grad school for about a decade. But psychology is so interesting! Psychology and sociology and anthropology and culture, all of that... When I go on book sprees on Amazon and buy a ton of books for like $4 a pop, I get pretty much exclusively nonfiction, and I knew that I would be really happy with psychology as a major and wouldn't find the work boring at all... but yeeeaaah.
Anyway, Russia in May will be awesome even though it will probably rain the entire time. Seeing an opera at the Bolshoi Theatre, the Moscow Zoo, Moscow Circus, Gorky Park (an amusement park in Moscow), the Winter Palace, the Kremlin, Red Square, the Hermitage, Peterhof, Moscow University, museums, riding the Metro, staying in the towns Alexandrov and Karabanova, visiting at least one orphanage... Weeeeeeeeeee. Also apparently the culture in Russia is really laid back and disorganized, and I wish American culture were that way because I've loved everywhere I've been outside the States with that kind of culture (which is most of the world, really; it would drive a lot of people I know nuts haha).
I'm getting the itch to go back to NYC for a visit, unfortunately. It won't happen because of $$$, but I really want to go through the parts of the Met that are not the Egyptian section and see all the classic artwork they have, besides the few I was able to see while rushing through. It's been almost four years. Last time was for a few days with my father, for my sixteenth birthday. There's so much you can do without spending any money, too... I just like walking around the city and not doing anything else, really. Discovering new places is probably the most enjoyable thing for me to do, though NYC isn't really new for me because I knew exactly how to get to Times Square from Penn Station based on instinct when I was in Manhattan for two hours last March.
fly as hale wrote:
My professor used to have us write papers and then turn them in, and he would make comments on them and hand them back if he felt you should revise it.
He would pratically write novels on student's papers, where mine said absolutely nothing. No comments, no spelling or grammar corrections or anything like that. So I never knew if he wanted me to re-do them or not, so I never did...but I always got As on the papers. But even the other students who got As on their papers would still have comments on them, but mine never did. *shrug*
Oh, that's so frustrating. I'm used to profs not having any comments on my papers because most of them reserve comments for criticism, but a "hmmm" in the margin next to a paragraph without explanation is just weird.
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(The thing is, Americans are less productive in the many hours they work than Mexicans are with the time that they do...) The parenting also appears to be great. All of the children are so well-behaved in public, and I never once heard a parent yell at a child or lose it despite spending a lot of time in people's homes, and in shopping centers where in America you see that pretty often and it makes me cringe. When a child doesn't listen, the parent remains calm (and truly calm, not that fake calm like most American parents get when they have company over and you can tell the kid is starting to annoy him) and simply pulls the kid aside and tells him in no uncertain language what's up, and if that's not the end of it they just send the kid off to play somewhere else. It was like night and day coming back here and going to shopping malls and comparing the kids to the children at the mall we went to in Mexico. American kids are brats lol and the parenting style is sort of opposite. They're also really open with showing love and affection (it is easy to mistake siblings as couples looking at it from an American POV). As long as you're part of a family, it's got to be really hard to feel unloved there. I approve of that culture.
