i am actually back. and within a day. well sorta since i havent been to bed yet. so i'm still counting this as today rather than a part of tomorrow (which is what today would be if i were still in yesterday. ah yes. confusement). still, i am very proud of myself. i will give myself a pat on the head. good stupid child, good stupid child. yes.
so, a lot of stuff happened today (not much more than the usual amount but a significant amount of things so much so that it can be considered as a lot). for instance, i've finally realised the urgency of the ERB form that we've got to digitally fill up and then hand up. This is due on monday. and guess what everyone! OH YES! ITS FOR BOTH QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE PAPERS, WHICH WE'RE GONNA (and by gonna, i mean FORCED TO) CARRY OUT THIS SEM! OH JOY! i hope you can sense the sarcasm dripping off each word there.
this ERB thing, is actually the Ethics Review Board (hence ERB). Each psych research proposal (proposal to run a research or experiment) has to be deemed ethical and passed by the ERB before it can actually be carried out. We actually did two proposals last sem already but then, we were pretty sure that we'd only be carrying out one of them (the quantitative one. fyi, a simple way to get this is quali: stuff focusing on meanings and experiences etc elaboration kinda stuff and quanti: stuff with numbers that can be quantified. like experiments and stuff. i think). or so our sadly, misinformed tutors had told us. unfortunatelyyy, as per usual our year is always the ones to be experimented on as our government and those in charge of these kinda stuff attempt to perfect their programs. yeah, you know those guinea pigs in the labs they run tests on sometimes, thats us but with education. yup. we're sad little creatures.
the long and short of it is that we've got no choice but to carry out both researches this sem. which since we all got the proposal done and handed up, you'd think it'd be no big deal to just carry out both of the researches. i mean we've already done a lit review and identified the aims, gaps and etc of the research. Still. you've got to remember this. only one of the proposals was marked by a lecturer (this means stricter marking than tutors) and we were under the impression we only had to carry out that one ANDDD both of these were due on the same date. Therefore, as we all know, we're all generally pretty lazy (cept for the gifted few) most of basically worked crazy hard on that one and winged the other. for instance, i spent about 2 weeks researching my quanti topic and writing my paper so i felt it was okay and whatnot (even though i still didnt feel good about it when i had to hand it up. but then again, i never feel good about anything when it comes to academics). since i started.. well 2 weeks before the due date, that left welll... lets see about no time to do the quali one. for that one, i chose the topic 3 days before it was due and wrote it in 2 days.
also, since we thought we didnt actually have to carry the quali one out, i pretty much just went for something i thought might actually be interesting, regardless of how hard it'd be to actually carry the damn thing out. so, my title was "the lived experiences of older persons living alone". this is really hard to carry out trust me. especially since i can't interview others to save my life. ahhhh. so now i've gotta change my topic to something somewhat boring but doable. the proposal though oddly got pretty good marks? one of the highest i've ever gotten (higher than the quanti one which i really slaved over) so maybe i'll save that for my thesis so i can cheat a little. cos it does seem like an interesting topic to me :D
anyway, off tangent. AGAIN. basically, i've gotta get both the erb forms done by monday so i can hand it in and stuff. sadly though, i stupidly signed myself up for a bunch of clubs and activities. and they take over my free times. so much for my "cleverly" arranged timetable with the FOUR day weekend. i have so many things to do its a 1 1/2 day weekend. I make me sad. dont get me wrong though, being active in co-co activities for once in my life (since i FINALLY sorta have transport to things now) is very fun and somewhat rewarding :). i dunno if i'm doing it for the right reasons, though i hope i am, i get pretty happy doing volunteer work as well. psych does suck the fun out of things sometimes cos its not proper satisfaction when i question why i volunteer. Do i volunteer cos im genuinely a nice person or is it because i have helper's high (where people get happy after helping others. thus its more like you do it so you get something in return)? who knows right?
tomorrow there's this event called uni live 5.0. its this thing where (if i'm not wrong) student council gets all the clubs together and lets them have a booth to promote the clubs as well as recruit members. so i'm helping out with that and have to go at 8am to help set up booths for not one, not two but FOUR clubs (MGC, CDP, RESCUE and WMHD. i know these are just letters to you but nevermind. you'll find out what the stand for eventually). im oddly excited but also worried if i can actually get everything done on time.
it is crazy fun helping out though :) and i get to play with poster paint! something i've not done since highschool! ahh really fun! and then we deco the booths and stuff :) and i do like me some art. although im pretty dry when i've gotta think of how to deco it on my own. thank god i have my friends working on it with me.
on a completely irrelevant topic. today my new friend from aussie (whom i sadly became closer with on the LAST DAY i was in melbourne = =. there's actually a group of them. sigh i miss them idiots)... i will call him pedobear as he has a printed black and white picture of pedobear on his room door (because he apparently "likes little boys. and girlsssss" his words. not mine haha. he's joking though so please judge him respectively). well anyway, he talked to me on fb chat and the topic about god came up somehow. so i just remembered about it and have to get this off my chest. i know this is rather bad of me. but i kinda get very fidgety when people ask me about my faith.
i've not been to church in a really long time but i still think i'm a christian (i pray, i pretty much believe. i just dont go to church or read the bible as often as i really should i guess.). also since i havent been to church since i was in primary school, i really have little recollection of what people actually do in church besides sing, dance, put on plays, memorise things from the bible and pages of homework in an activity book. my mum says she's a christian but acts like a free thinker too. so i'm a lil bit confused i guess. but i cant say its her fault. but yeah this is why i get fidgety when people ask me if im a christian. feels wrong to say yes. but feels really weird to say no.
ok. anyhooooo, i'm done. gotta get back to researching for my new quali thing to do the erb form. i will get this done. yes :) good session today though. felt more natural than yesterday anyway. but then again. it is A LOT easier to type when you're not typing things off the top of your head while someone talks to you and expects replies (like yesterday). i really shouldnt have tried blogging then haha. i dont know why i did but i guess i thought it mightve been fun and wifey mightve joined in with me haha. idk. although, im glad yesterday's post came out pretty coherent... more coherent than expected anyway.
i will start adding pictures soon. there should be something to break up the immense walls of texts i post up. kthnxbaii :)
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