It’s hard to believe that there’s only one month left of this year. That said, my classes are getting into their last sections of material and course selection is going on next week. As you may imagine, it’s a rather stressful time of the year. It feels a lot more manageable than finals last semester, though. Maybe it’s because I’m taking better courses for me, but it may also be that I’m more adjusted to what’s expected of me in college.
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| One of the Clark University Lecture Halls |
Tomorrow is my third exam in economics. What I haven’t mentioned about my economics exams is that we take them in a different room than we normally meet for class. While not all classes take advantage of the opportunity to test elsewhere, it’s nice that there is the capability to move. My economics class has fifty students in it, so we move to a lecture hall for tests so no one is sitting next to each other. Cheating really isn’t a big problem here from my understanding, but it’s nice to remove the temptation altogether by relocating for exams.
Also tomorrow is my second psychology discussion presentation. For the project, each member of my group had to do three trials of a traditional IQ test and a non-traditional IQ test. We tried to take different tests so we could best analyze which tests are more representative of intelligence. Surprisingly, I had a wide range of IQ scores when I took the traditional IQ test, ranging from 130 to 152. However, my non-traditional test seemed fairly consistent. I took an emotional IQ test. This attempted to rate my ability to deal with emotional situations and be perceptive of other peoples’ emotions. As I said, my scores were rather similar, ranging from 83% to 85%. I was a little surprised by this score, to tell you the truth. I see myself as a fairly perceptive person. My thoughts were that this test may be more accurate since my score remained the same from trial to trial. However, another member in my group had a large range of scores for the emotional IQ test and consistent scores for the traditional. It’s hard to determine which test would best represent intelligence. Perhaps a combination of the two is the best method. By the way, there are lots of other kinds of non-traditional tests. For example, there’s also a multiple-intelligence test which gives scores on different types of intelligence like spatial, musical, math, linguistic, etc. I think as far as non-traditional tests go, that’s the best one. Anyway, that’s basically what my group will be presenting in class tomorrow. Wish us luck!
The last thing I’d like to talk about is course selection. As I’m going into my sophomore year, it’s time to start gearing towards what I’d like to major in. I think I’m mostly decided on psychology and economics. It’s strange to see how much my interests have changed over the years and I’m still trying to keep an open mind to my major changing. For now, though, I’m taking two psychology courses, an economics course, and a perspective requirement class. For psychology, I am hoping to take statistics and qualitative methods. In economics, I’ll be taking the course which comes after 010 – 011: Principles of Economics. It’s basically what I’ve been learning this semester, but more in depth and more math involved. Fun, right? The last class I’m planning to take is called Creative Actor. I’m looking forward to being involved in acting again. I was fairly involved with theater in high school, but I didn’t have the time to fit it in my schedule this year. The perspectives at Clark are actually a lot more interesting than I thought they would be and I’m really grateful for that.
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