My future...as assumed by me

Welcome! Those in my class and those outside of this class. I hope you all found this blog easily, if not, I wish you better luck next time. Anyway, let's get straight to this blogs point, shall we?

I'll start by explaining a bit about myself: my name is Nicolette and I am a psychology major at Brandman University, as well as College of the Canyons Community college. I graduated high school in 2011, graduated with my A.A. in Social Sciences in 2012, and am planning on finishing with my B.A. in psychology this upcoming Spring, even though I have only been going to Bradman for about a year. In the fall, fingers crossed, I will be going to Cal State Dominquez Hills to start their graduate program in Social Work and I will be focusing on Children, Youth, and Families.

Now, to get realllllly deep into my future prospects. I chose this grad school because it focuses on racism and sexism within the community, while other school were more of a generalized summary of social work. I have always been interested in social justices issues, such as equality and human rights so, this fit me a lot better than a vague social work M.A. In my future, I would like to focus on social justice issues, as well as the field of psychology itself, but the issues that are most important to me are: equality for LGBT community, sex workers, people of color, and learning, as well as helping those with personality and eating disorders. It's definitely hard to just pick ONE topic out of all of these but, I will probably pick sexism or racism to be discussing the rest of the semester since there is so much information, but it's not too terribly vague (I don't think?).

I have taken two research classes, quanitative and qualitative research, and I strongly loathed quanitative since the professor was not that great, and it involved a lot of math. However, I understood qualitative and did very well in it! Therefore, I would like to improve on many things in the ways of research, such as picking reputable articles and especially websites, for seeing if they are valid or not. I would also really like to improve on being more quick to write observations down; this is more of my problem with making things into a habit but, still pertains. Lastly, I would like to become more neutral, at least neutral sounding, when discussing topics that are such a passion for me to learn and discuss about. I have not been critiqued on being bias as of yet, but I know that I am and would like to improve so that the reader will be able to completely soak in the information and choose their own opinion, instead of be swayed by mine.