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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 1:24:20 PM
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agapetos
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I guess I am confused as to what to do when I get back to Cali... Which is exactly why several people questioned why you were moving back to CA in the first place.
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I like this UCSD thing a lot though.....it sounds really good and solid. You've felt this way about other things recently too.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 1:46:17 PM
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I just emailed UCSD to ask them if I qualify. The problem I often times encounter is that my undergraduate GPA is only a 2.84 because thats when I was going through my mental health issues, and I didnt do that well in my classes. My Graduate GPA is good and above a 3.0 now so we shall see what they say. I guess I automatically disqualified myself from a lot of programmes because I thought that they would not accept me. Who knows what they will say. I also have to take the GRE test for the UCSD programme. I can do that, thats no problem at all.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 2:40:11 PM
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I found this site when I was looking at the UCSD website. SDSU is where I went and earned my Psychology degree from. They have a good Psych programme and since its a State school, they are super inexpensive.
http://www.psychology.sdsu.edu/doctoral/index.html
I am prepared to wait though and seek the Lord in this. I dont just want to jump into such a big committment and do things without Him like I have been. So I am going to wait on Him and see what He says.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 2:42:05 PM
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What are you doing in order to build your relationship with God while you are waiting?
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 2:56:38 PM
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I think you should go ~ so you start getting into the routine again. You may find some reason not to go once you return to CA if you don't start going now. People frequently go to a different church when they are on holiday somewhere. It would be good for you to be prayed for about all this too.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 3:22:18 PM
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I dont want to go to church here casue I am leaving soon and I would feel awkward if I went.
Why would you feel awkward? What's there to feel awkward about? Help me out please!
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 3:27:32 PM
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Cause I have not been there..and now I am leaving and I would just feel all weirded out. Dont know..thats just me.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 5:36:36 PM
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What about UC San Diego?
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I was about to mention the same thing. UCSD is nationally-known and a very good school. And you get in-state tuition and maybe even a TA-ship to boot.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 5:52:54 PM
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IMO it would be beneficial to try and unpack that "weirded out" feeling and understand where it's coming from.
I mean, from someone with a degree in Psychology, going on to do a doctorate, don't you think it would be a really good idea to do so, ie good practice? 
I'm presuming that you're afraid something will happen if you go (if I'm wrong, please just say) or something may be said. What is/are that/those "somethings"?
I actually sort of understand where she's coming from. Some people aren't naturally outgoing and to go to a church with maybe as few as 50 or even 25 people where it might be hard to blend in can be a little disconcerting.
I've slowly adapted to live in the Northeast, and the one rule I have is that you don't want to impose on people, and you don't make idle conversation with strangers. Hence, my small-talk skills have atrophied to the point where it's hard to be in social situations where I have to talk to strangers. Especially if everyone else is going to be there for the next several years and you're going to be leaving in a few weeks.
I think I know where Justyna is coming from, and my advice for her might be to find a bigger church. The Presbyterian church I go to on the Upper West Side has about a thousand people at each service and you can slip in and out totally unnoticed.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 5:56:50 PM
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I actually sort of understand where she's coming from. Some people aren't naturally outgoing and to go to a church with maybe as few as 50 or even 25 people where it might be hard to blend in can be a little disconcerting.
Where did Justyna say that her current church only has 25-50 people attending? I just have missed that.
Are you aware that Justyna, up till a few weeks ago, was going every Sunday, and has even gone to classes and become a member? I personally think it would be only fair (and polite) for her to go to church, and simply let her pastor know that her circumstances have changed and that she's heading back to the USA (she doesn't need to say any more than that unless she wants to), and to allow him to say a proper good bye before she leaves.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 6:05:01 PM
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Justyna, have you talked to God about the feelings you said you had about Him a few weeks ago?
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 7:26:39 PM
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Justyna, just thinking about you going to college this year...
I konw that it's what you want to do, but perhaps it's worth you considering what you're going to do if you can't and need to apply for next year. Perhaps you would be able to get some experience of working as a volunteer in charities that work with people who've had problems? Not suggesting counselling, but perhaps there is some kind of befriending you could do, or a listening organisation such as the Samaritans or even on the admin side of things.
At the same time, it would (perhaps) give you the opportunity to have some counselling (as you've said you plan to) and sort out some of the unresolved issues you have...
As for being a 'fake Christian'... I suspect that the most 'real' Christians are the ones who acknowledge they have unresolved issues. To believe otherwise would be to doubt God's word.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 7:37:04 PM
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One of the reasons I dont want to go to church right now is becasue I feel like a fake Christian. Here I am going to church but behind the scenes I have undealt issues.
Justyna
And you think that makes you different from anyone else who attends church?
We ALL have issues, every single last one of us.
If every one of us who had issues stayed away from church, our churches would be empty (and there's be no pastors either).
I think all Christians are probably hypocrites too, in that absolutely none of us practice what we preach 100% of the time, because even though we're Christians, we're fallen image-bearers, and God hasn't finished with any of us yet.
Of course at the end of the day it's your choice whether or not to go to church, but if you think you have to be at some kind of "level" before you're "acceptable", then you're entirely mistaken.
It's also harder to go back to church the longer you leave it; so returning to church now here in the UK will likely make it easier for you to go to church in San Diego when you return to the US.
EDIT: you said that's one of the reasons, what are the others?
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 8:19:04 PM
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Justyna, just thinking about you going to college this year...
I konw that it's what you want to do, but perhaps it's worth you considering what you're going to do if you can't and need to apply for next year. Perhaps you would be able to get some experience of working as a volunteer in charities that work with people who've had problems? Not suggesting counselling, but perhaps there is some kind of befriending you could do, or a listening organisation such as the Samaritans or even on the admin side of things.
At the same time, it would (perhaps) give you the opportunity to have some counselling (as you've said you plan to) and sort out some of the unresolved issues you have...
As for being a 'fake Christian'... I suspect that the most 'real' Christians are the ones who acknowledge they have unresolved issues. To believe otherwise would be to doubt God's word.
Hahha I already know that I cant apply for this year at the UC and State level. The deadline is Dec 1st for the fall 2010. So I already missed the deadline for fall 2009. It will be a full year before I can go to those schools *if* I get accepted.
I might do some volunteer work..or paid work where I am helping/counselling.
This time I am going to do it for the right reasons. I just want God to be pround of me..not necessarily my dad anymore. If I go, great, if not then thats okay too. I dont need to get my image or idenity from a programme or degree. I know that I am more in Christ.
I have time to sort out my issues, and to take the GRE test as well. Thats required and I have not taken it yet.
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 9:03:49 PM
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Justnya, I have been wondering how you were doing. I haven't been keeping up with the thread where you were talking about having surgery. How did that go? How is everything else? I have read some of the recent posts and see you are heading back to school to study psychology. I also saw that you were thinking about getting back into exercising.
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Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/4/2009 9:17:15 PM
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Justyna - if you come back to the states, are you going to reprogram your brain so that you are spelling things correctly? 
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/5/2009 9:40:45 AM
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RE: Which Programme Would You Choose? - 6/5/2009 1:26:42 PM
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Well I got an e-mail back from UCSD and they basically said they will look at my last schools GPA, which would be my MBA..I have a competitive GPA in that degree so thats no problem. They said the average is 3.7 or so...so I should be okay. This is excellent. I am still seeking the Lord though on all this.
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