michelle rivers - my adventure blog

I started classes on Thursday of last week. I'm already in love with my professors and really looking forward to the class material, despite having to wake up at 6:45am! My child psychopathology teacher (also a practicing clinical psychologist) offers positions for his stellar students to mentor some of his youth clients. Excited at the prospect of working in the field, I immediately emailed him and we have an interview set up for Tuesday. Wish me luck! I'm making some good connections with fellow students. I happened to run into a boy who attended Mesa, my community college, and took the same intensive research class as me a few years ago. Since we both had the same training and teacher recommendations, we are most likely going to take the advanced research methods course together. I thought networking would be a little harder on the large University campus, but so far it's going really well. The amount of reading is going to take some getting used to. The material is rea...

About a week ago, I spent the weekend with my friend Jennifer. We went to visit her friend Rick, who owns a lot of animals: baby snakes, rattlesnakes, tons of mice (he breeds them for a living), turtles, lizards, a dog, etc. I got to see a sidewinder, my favorite rattlesnake, eat! I wouldn't recommend everyone watch this video, but I think it's interesting: We couldn't do much that night because of the blackout, but the next day we went to the zoo. We had a great day seeing all the animals. I spent the rest of last week saying goodbye to friends and family. I'm going to miss San Diego and everyone I love, but I am very excited about starting a new chapter of my life. Wednesday morning my Mom, Tony, and I left for Santa Cruz. We made great time and made it up to the campus by about noon. Move-in went well; I thought I had a lot of stuff but many people beat me! (Which is good, because my roommate and I ended up on the corner room, which is a lot smaller th...