Wednesday, July 2, 2008


This week on Monday June 30 I had my first job shadowing experience. For my career choice I would like to be a clinical pshchologist, just like my mother. What I thought would happen was that I would go to a small office and see that kind of reports that psychologist do, but that was not the case. Where I ended up going was straigh across the Milo Bail Student Center to Allwine Hall which to me was a little weird. Once I got to the fifth floor I recongized that I'm going into a science room.

When I got in there I met a guy named Adam who talked to me while the guy I was going to shadow showed up. So Adam and I talked a little about what I wanted to do and through that I found out that he studied to be a clinical psychologist too, also Adam told me the ins and outs of college. But the weird thing about it still is that I was in a science lab, well it turns out the instead of Adam being a clincal psychologist, he became psycobiologist, where they study the behavior of monkeys, birds, and rats and their hormones.

That is sort of interesting but that really wasn't what I wanted to do at all. The next thing that happend was that the guy I was supposed to shadow showed up finally and his name was Drew and he was pretty cool. Drew then took me around the labs and showed me the cutest, tiniest monkeys ever and i got to feed them Cherrios.

My experience was fun and interesting and I got to learn something that I never knew existed, but at the same time I didn't care for it that much, because I would like to study and dignose human patients and not anmial patients.




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