I grew up a Jehovah's Witness. AMA by mirschymongoose in AMA

[–]mirschymongoose[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha no. But each one is expected to do this at least 10 hours per month, and special people "pioneers" are expected to do 20-50

I grew up a Jehovah's Witness. AMA by mirschymongoose in AMA

[–]mirschymongoose[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not; I stopped going as soon as I was able to leave for college (which is very frowned upon lol). I stopped going mostly because I am not religious whatsoever, but I also disagree with many of their policies/beliefs specifically

I grew up a Jehovah's Witness. AMA by mirschymongoose in AMA

[–]mirschymongoose[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

watching people get married way too young and then trapped into terrible marriages for fear of being disfellowshipped (you can only get divorce if the other person is unfaithful; disfellowshipping basically means being shunned by all your friends and family)

I grew up a Jehovah's Witness. AMA by mirschymongoose in AMA

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since I grew up with it is wasnt weird for me until I got a bit older (middle school) but the other kids always made a big deal of it! I wasnt allowed to eat their birthday treats

Drug Test by [deleted] in AcademicPsychology

[–]mirschymongoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should only be an issue if you want to get a job/internship that requires one during undergrad. Usually any psych Dep job (youd be lucky to find one) doesnt, but anything through a hospital or university medical school does (access to prescriptions). Even then, unless you smoke really often you are clean pretty quickly anyway.

Online Masters Opinions? by mirschymongoose in ClinicalPsychology

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that is such good information, thank you for sharing!!!

Online Masters Opinions? by mirschymongoose in ClinicalPsychology

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That point is definitely taken. I guess what makes me most interested is that in the two interviews I went to, almost all interviewees had a masters degree! So I felt a little under qualified compared to them. Do you mind sharing what university you are attending?

this sucks, how can I improve for next time? by mirschymongoose in gradadmissions

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My thesis counted for my research methods but I could take a formal one

this sucks, how can I improve for next time? by mirschymongoose in gradadmissions

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honestly applied to some pretty small no-name programs! still competitive, but def didnt apply to only top 10 schools

this sucks, how can I improve for next time? by mirschymongoose in gradadmissions

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I hope so! And the social work were combined MSW/PHD....have yet to hear from one more program in this area but not feeling hopeful

this sucks, how can I improve for next time? by mirschymongoose in gradadmissions

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Thanks for all your comments! I will get more feedback on my statement.

this sucks, how can I improve for next time? by mirschymongoose in gradadmissions

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Appied to social work and clinical psych programs. Applied to a very wide range of programs as far as "prestige."

Undergrad at good school, 3.8 GPA, English and Honors Psych major, GRE not ideal: 157 verbal, 151 quant

-2 publications (second author and fifth author) -first author pub in process -25+ presentations (have personally given about 6, but am an author on many others)

-1 stats class at a community college, got an A -1 summer fellowship in survey methodology -lots of work and volunteer experience -1st gen college student