Psychology Class Observation Report

Orientation to the major classes here at the University of Mount Olive are designed to introduce psychology majors to important topics like graduate schools, potential jobs, proper writing, and professionalism. It is beneficial so that all psychology majors are on the same page and since we are all in the same class it provides an opportunity to get to know one another. Getting to know other students interested in psychology is both fun and important. It is fun because we all have similar interests and it is important, so we can have a network that can be used in the future. Though there are some things about the class that I did not like. I think that changing this class in the future will be good and it will be better for all future students.

I truly appreciated and loved the speakers that came in. They were all very entertaining, informative, and they made me think about what it was that I wanted to do. Being able to hear their experiences and what they had to say honestly about their jobs was a good experience and being able to talk to them afterward or ask questions was very nice. The speakers were one of my favorite parts of this class, and Ms. Black was my favorite out of all of them since she talked about her struggles and the hard parts of the job. Additionally, I liked thinking about what schools I could go to and what options I could have there. One critique of that though, is that as I do not plan to get my Ph.D. the paper on that was not useful for me. Thinking of graduate school in general was important though because it opened my eyes to the fact that I am not a freshman here. I am a junior credit wise and thus have less time to think of where I am going next when I have only just started here, which was a frightening wake-up call. I also found the section on APA formatting to be helpful for both future and current use and now I can do it quicker than I could before. The only downside to that is I am completely at a loss for how to do MLA formatting anymore since I have used APA so much. The tradeoff is that I can help my friends format their papers correctly and do not have to rely on Purdue Owl for the major aspects of APA format