About Me
I didn't get accepted to a PhD program that year. Luckily, my advisor must have realized how poorly I was applying and convinced me to apply to a few master's programs. I applied to the College of William & Mary's excellent experimental psychology M.A. program the day before the application was due (express mail is your friend), and I managed to get accepted. My second year at William & Mary (2005), I again applied to PhD programs, this time in clinical psychology. I was accepted at one school - the safest of all my safety schools. I didn't actually want to spend 6 years of my life there. Luckily, I had anticipated this possibility and had applied to several research assistant jobs. I was fortunate to get a job as a research coordinator at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center in Hartford, CT, and later moved to the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, NM. I applied for the third time in the fall of 2007. Success! Out of 9 schools, I received three interviews, all at highly-renowned schools. I got accepted to two of the schools, and I will be attending Kent State University this fall. I'm actually grateful for my former "setbacks" as they taught me a lot about applying and allowed me to gain some extremely valuable experience. And now, I can pass the knowledge gained from my setbacks on to you! I can't think of anything more rewarding than that :) About me, more personally. My field of research is in psychosis, specifically schizophrenia. I'm originally from Illinois and have lived in Virginia and Connecticut before moving to my present home, New Mexico. I have two zebra finches, and one fiance who I will be marrying this summer, shortly before grad school tears us apart and makes us very poor ;)
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