I went early. In fact, i was there about 45 minutes early.
 

Okay, so i went there early but guess what, i was at the wrong place. You cannot imagine the insensible panic one goes through when finding out, one minute before your exam is to begin, that u are approximately 20-30 minutes away from it.

The paper itself wasn't exactly easy either.

Lets not talk about that anymore. Lets talk about something else. Anything else.

I think my brain is missing.
 

Where the hell were you?

I went shopping.

What? You went shopping Today? Of all days? My Math Exam!!!! AAaaAAhhhhH!

I went to Sportsgirl.

Ooh. what did u get?

Nothing. You're broke remember?

Ah. that's right.

You know, you have to stop relying on this conversational style of writing.

Fine.
 
 

Case in point: One day before the 3rd computing assignment was due, i gave myself a fringe. And before that, during the final exams in July, i chopped off about 4 inches. INChes okay. Or maybe it fell out from all the stress, couldn't tell the difference.

Anyway, it all grew back. In fact, its getting quite long now...
 

NO Suyin! Put  Down   Those    Scissors.
 
 

However, say he meets his old classmates at a reunion. Instead of wowing them with the New Him, he might find himself returning to the stuttering sweaty-palmed blockthroated character of before, much to his chagrin needless to say.

So the moral of the case study is that maybe people can't actually become different people. I suspect they don't anyhow, they just develop more inflections of their selves. Maybe they learn new things, but the idea is that you can't really extinguish old habits, u learn new habits that conceal the older ones, but they're still there to re-emerge in familiar situations.
 
 

"Psychology is bad. It tries to categorise people when everyone is different, and that is bad"

"Psychology...observe a little draw some conclusions, think up some explanations... which may be a bit too far fetched.. but who cares huh?"

Some people seem to think psychology is some sort of procedure, like its something you 'use' on someone. They're usually thinking of Psychoanalysis, which is Not the sum total of Psychology. By psychoanalysis, i refer to the process of getting people to lie down on a couch (preferably, heh) and free-associating (i.e., rambling). The therapist then tries to form an idea of what problem is, etc. This is all i know of it. Most people, however, seem to think this also extends to personality tests and so on. I'm not entirely sure, but i don't think it does.

Believe it or not, Psychology is a Science, and you have to do experiments and (unfortunately for me,) you can only bullshit about as much as you normally could in say... a bio lab report. I use biology as an example because the two are similar. The problem with psychology is that the methodology of doing experiments in various fields is maybe less well developed. The best you can do is to describe every single detail and then make a guess at a result, but u cannot say it is So. Of course there are many hacks who will write books, and many others who disregard the scientific method and sensationalize whatever findings they have, and then mislead people into thinking certain things, which is dangerous since sometimes, just thinking things makes them real.

Anyway, in this course,  i've learnt So Much in just 6 months, and its not stuff like 'if blah does blah, then it means he got abused as a child'. That kind of thinking will flunk. There were these lectures on motivation...and learning behaviour.. and Memory, which was like a scientific crash course in How to Study Better. :) which reminds me of the field studies i had to do for that topic. Here i propose a generalisation: People who agree to participate in psychology experiments seek to get out of them one thing and one thing only: to find out more about themselves.

Take a simple memory task, giving a list of the same 20 words each to 2 different people. Without telling them this has anything to do with memory, ask one of them to think of synonyms for each of the words or to indicate if they can't, and ask the other one to count the number of vowels in each word.

The idea is that the person who thinks up synonyms will remember more of the words later than the vowels person, having processed them further. However, some people (particularly the intelligent ones) will take that as a test of their vocabulary skills, rushing through it, and then not remembering anything at all later, however expecting to be told they have very quick processing skills.

I think i'm rambling. I have no idea what im trying to say now.

Oh yes. Right. the other thing i wanted to rant about was mental abnormalities. Things like neuroses, phobia, schizophrenia and such. Usually misunderstood thanks to a load of bad press. People who have anxiety disorders, phobias, et al, are just as handicapped as people with physical defects. Someone with a phobia of public transport is just as unable to board a bus as is someone in a wheelchair. Phobias are very real fears to the people who have them, even though they know they're being irrational.

Your mind is almost the whole of your being. So imagine if your mind is sick, if it doesn't function as properly as it should in a society that mocks mental illnesses and locks it away. Imagine being someone with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), who goes through each day doing time-consuming complicated rituals in order to relieve her fear of contamination. She takes hours just to bathe, or to prepare and eat a meal, and if i remember correctly, needs her husband to hold a leaf of lettuce over her head while she eats. The lettuce leaf thing is hilarious, being so ludicrous, but imagine the hell she lives, knowing that she doesn't have control of her own mind, much less her own ludicrous life.
 
 
Psychology is the study of things like this. Human behaviour and what makes us tick. cliché cliché. Mind over matter, how will you know anything if u don't know why you think the way you do. Psychology is the study of you. Its not trivia.
 

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