Doctoral Program Orientation

So at 9:20 the orientation got started, it was 20 minutes late. I had a sinking feeling. My history with the admission people left me a bad taste in the mouth. I selected Argosy based on its location, reputation, offering of emphasis, and Psy.D. program. I had to overlook both cost and poor management in the admissions process. The joker I was dealing with “Paul” lost paperwork, failed to update my files, and generally was not giving me the service I deserved.

His performance did pick up as time went on. From the point of setting up the actual admittance interview on, and he was on-top of things. It is worth mentioning that I had to chew him a new one along the way, but it seems to have worked. That and talking to his boss!

Well, long story short, I was accepted and had school of psychology orientation yesterday. The late start did make me think “Oh, great, more of the same disorganized crap.”, but the reality was once they got rolling it was very well organized. Other than the start everything was on time and we ended 20 minutes early.

I got to meet many of the people in the starting class. We are a combination of MS and Psy.D. students, mostly Psy.D. The class is mostly women. There are 8 men in the program. I am sure this will make for some interesting situations, but the men’s bathroom will never have a ling [like it ever does], but the woman’s restroom always has a line [hahahahahahahaha]!

I have $700 in books for this semester!
It’s a huge stack!
I am going to try and find as many of them as I can used via the internet. Basically this is an insane amount of texts at an insane price tag. I even had two of the texts and the bookstore was out of two of the texts! All total it is like $900 in books.

I start my actual classes on Thursday. It should be fun. I am able to drop to 32 hours a week as of the 9th – Thank You God! I will use a half-day of vacation on Thursday to cover the time. Hopefully the P3 access is soon to come. Just having the option to work on Saturday/Sunday is so comforting. Its another take-care of Me step.

I picked up a very inexpensive school calendar and am starting to regret the choice. It’s a Mead product and fits in a binder, but the spiral is just a little bit too small to turn the pages and they bunch up and bind. Dumb, Stupid Calendar.

I am also still looking for something to contain all of my texts in. Mom offered to buy me a rolling piece of luggage, but the children were unwilling to make the trip with me to get it, so that opportunity is lost. Dump, Stupid Children!
My wonderful wife suggested that I just use some plastic milk crates. They are cheep and should work. I just like the idea of a nice rolling luggage. Oh, well.