adjustment

According to some, moving to a new location can be one of the most stressful experiences of all. If that is true, it easily explains my current state as I am bombarded with change.  Do transitions ever get any easier?

Anyway, I am looking forward to enrollment clearance on Tuesday and classes beginning on Wednesday.  Then I will get into the swing of things and be able to participate in class discussions.  My class lineup includes the following: Senior Seminar Identity Development, Counseling Psychology, Judgment and Decision Making, and Women in Music.  A total of four classes, the lineup is very promising in the content that it covers.  Identity Development should hopefully be a nice mix of self-care plus learning about how others develop their identity and how it may differ from our ways.  Counseling Psychology should be great as I have officially decided to go for the L.P.C. (Licensed Professional Counselor) or L.C.S.W. (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) track.  Judgment and Decision making may test my own study habits in addition to teaching about how people judge a set of circumstances and come to some decision.  It has the potential to be an annoying topic, though, because it in itself seems judgmental.  Who is to say they know about how other people make decisions.  Isn't that a very complex cognitive process?  I'm not so sure people know that much about it, so the class will be interesting; clearly I have a lot to learn.  Women in Music fulfills a fine arts requirement and it will be great to get that finished since it is senior year and I'm looking toward the finish line.

 

With all of the things I have to look forward to comes a whole other group of things that I have to deal with.  It's hard work looking forward to things; it takes up lots of energy to look forward to something, especially when there's excitement involved.  I am excited to be in my dorm room, for example, but am not happy about what happened last night as I tried to fall asleep.  The air conditioning unit began making this loud noise of water rushing.  Water rushing sounds like it could potentially be pleasant but it was not.  It was annoying and I had to listen intermittently throughout the night to this terrible gurgling noise.  Thankfully, today a man from physical plant came in to fix it and I learned that it was indeed water gurgling.  He had to tighten the nozzle on this thing to get it to shush up, which, I am proud to report, it has.   Now that the air conditioning unit is fixed, tonight will be a lot better.