Life as a Clinical Psychology PhD Student

I'm alive!

It's almost been a year since I last wrote here, but I do think I am ready to really put this blog to use. A lot of things have happened since I last updated the blog. During those months in 2011, I kept studying for the GRE and preparing my apps for graduate school. Well, guess what? I made it through! After many tears, sleepless nights, interviews all over the US, and decisions to make, I am now officially enrolled in a Clinical Psychology PhD program (my number one choice after interviews!).

I started the program in August, but it feels as if I have been enrolled forever. I am working on a grant together with my adviser and his other students. We are four students actively involved in the lab-work and that are funded through the grant, but he has a couple of more students that are funded through other sources and that join us every now and then. Everybody in the lab are very friendly, which is great.

We are six people in my cohort, and we are a really mixed group of people, which I love! Three men and three women (just that is worth mentioning in a psychology graduate program!), two international students, five have lived in another country for at least two years (South Korea, Sweden, Spain, Russia, and various other countries for the fifth person), five are fluent in at least one other language, and we span the ages of 22 and 30, with four of us being 26 or older (again, very very rare, but something I am very grateful for!).

Since being a PhD student pretty much is my life now, I was thinking of making this blog a venue where I think about graduate school, as well as research and life in general. Also, if people are interested, I would love to tell you guys more about how I got into graduate school (especially as an international student), and how life is as a PhD student, etc.

Until we meet again.
Cheers!