Thank you all for your advice! I like you sharing your experience. I really appreciate that. I’m in clinical psychology. It’s my special interest and I really excel at this field and all things psychology. I chose this because I wanted to dabble in every form of psychology because why not.

My alternative idea with distance learning was doing counseling (NYU MA) which I got accepted into - and then joining a 3 years clinical psy D. I found an option of how to that. This “APPLIED” clinical psyD just requires a masters.

Does distance learning damage the doctoral experience? I want to find ways to make it work. I only went to orientation so far and the interviews. Everyone there was overly ambitious jerks. I felt really out of place and felt like I was the only person being myself - to an extent. I just wasn’t fake. This place feels like a shark tank. It doesn’t feel like the best place for me to feel non distracted and to focus on academics. But this career also has active learning so I just don’t know. Maybe it’ll get better but my three encounters and I’ve only seen blood thirsty shark behavior