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weifanOne of my professors said before that San Francisco State has a 100% success rate of sending masters graduates to PhD programs. The same might apply for post-baccalaureate, but I didn't ask. It might just be being a member of one of the psychology labs and running your own experiments. All the honors undergrad students run their own tests anyway.
When I first transferred to SF State, I read about the honors program and I was really interested in it. Considering that you were able to ask a question and do your own research for it, it sounded fun! The problem was that you probably needed a statement and answer specifically what it was that you were interested in, and when I claimed as a psychology major, I didn't have anything in mind that I really wanted to study.
Even for this controversial issues class that I'm taking, I looked up a lot of articles about video games and its cognitive effects on the brain. It would be something that I would like to study and actually run participants for, but really I might not have the patience for it now. I've been in college for six years, four of them at a community college taking different classes because I didn't know what to do. The first half I didn't do well because I had no idea what I wanted to study and I generally slacked off. That greatly effected my GPA needless to say, but I was able to turn in a form so that some classes could be taken out of that calculation (my all college GPA is now over a 3.0 ;A;).
I wanted to do something art related when I first graduated from high school, maybe even go to an art school for it, but both my parents tried to persuade me to do otherwise. "Why don't you be a doctor or a dentist?" is what my mom said. My dad said something different, about getting a degree on something more practical and then have art as my secondary. I don't blame them for thinking that way. My mom didn't finish college because she had me. There were probably some other factors in there but I never really asked neither did I ask what she was going to study. Then there's my dad who went to a trade school, but he said if he had the money, he would have gone to university and do something with astrophysics. My older cousins on my dad's side have gotten "practical" degrees too. I have a cousin who has a masters in genetics, another one with a BA in biology, two who are medical doctors, one who is in med school studying to be a doctor, and another one who's a nurse. My major is at least science related as well, but it's not considered a hard science like the others.
I have entertained the thought of going to graduate school for some time now. At first I thought I wanted it to be psychology related, but now I'm thinking that I do want to stray back and have it be something art related. Aside from the psychology classes I took, another class that I really liked was critical study of popular culture. Depending on what's needed for that, I might look into something more media or humanities related. Graduate school may not be right for me now. Maybe after some time away from classes, it could be.
When I first transferred to SF State, I read about the honors program and I was really interested in it. Considering that you were able to ask a question and do your own research for it, it sounded fun! The problem was that you probably needed a statement and answer specifically what it was that you were interested in, and when I claimed as a psychology major, I didn't have anything in mind that I really wanted to study.
Even for this controversial issues class that I'm taking, I looked up a lot of articles about video games and its cognitive effects on the brain. It would be something that I would like to study and actually run participants for, but really I might not have the patience for it now. I've been in college for six years, four of them at a community college taking different classes because I didn't know what to do. The first half I didn't do well because I had no idea what I wanted to study and I generally slacked off. That greatly effected my GPA needless to say, but I was able to turn in a form so that some classes could be taken out of that calculation (my all college GPA is now over a 3.0 ;A;).
I wanted to do something art related when I first graduated from high school, maybe even go to an art school for it, but both my parents tried to persuade me to do otherwise. "Why don't you be a doctor or a dentist?" is what my mom said. My dad said something different, about getting a degree on something more practical and then have art as my secondary. I don't blame them for thinking that way. My mom didn't finish college because she had me. There were probably some other factors in there but I never really asked neither did I ask what she was going to study. Then there's my dad who went to a trade school, but he said if he had the money, he would have gone to university and do something with astrophysics. My older cousins on my dad's side have gotten "practical" degrees too. I have a cousin who has a masters in genetics, another one with a BA in biology, two who are medical doctors, one who is in med school studying to be a doctor, and another one who's a nurse. My major is at least science related as well, but it's not considered a hard science like the others.
I have entertained the thought of going to graduate school for some time now. At first I thought I wanted it to be psychology related, but now I'm thinking that I do want to stray back and have it be something art related. Aside from the psychology classes I took, another class that I really liked was critical study of popular culture. Depending on what's needed for that, I might look into something more media or humanities related. Graduate school may not be right for me now. Maybe after some time away from classes, it could be.