Back to School

As of two weeks ago, I started class at OCU. I have two summer classes, Business Statistics and Abnormal Psychology. It is funny taking statistics after having worked in finance nearly 10 years. I was working through the problems and it asked for the weighted mean and I thought "Oh, this is the class that teaches that". Having never taken any business classes, the concepts I know through experience are fun to divide up in my head by which "subject" they are technically in. I forgot how much fun math problems were. Putting in an answer and getting the green check mark of correctness. Selecting pie chart and it telling you "wrong, pie chart would be a better answer". Dang you online glitches. The hardest part of psychology is the reading. A large page with small type times 50 for one week. Some of it is exciting and some of it you read between a head nod waking you up and everything going dark again. Reading the subject matter, I am again reminded of how fortunate I am to be living in the time that I am. Before medicine or outpatient therapy, people were locked in asylums or dunked in rivers until the demons inside were exorcised.

A study I found truly interesting was conducted by Rosenhan. It is part of what paved the way for the detailed definitions of mental disorders that psychologists now adhere to.