This week I started in the child development lab in which I will be doing research this semester. Going into it, I viewed this research as more of a stepping stone that would lead me to other research in areas that I'm more interested in and want to pursue in graduate school. As I was learning more about the research that I'll be doing this semester though, I actually got really excited about it. I think I'm mostly just excited to finally be able to jump into the world of research and see actual real life results of what I've been reading about from books for the past two years. Even more than that, it's gotten me even more excited to do research in more clinical/therapeutic outcome/psychopathology related fields. I've spent hours this week looking online at BYU's faculty research areas of interest trying to figure out which one most closely matches my interests and narrow it down to one professor I want to try to do research with over the summer. I'm so excited for it. I even spent a considerable amount of time researching the graduate programs that I'm interested in and their faculty research areas.
I have trouble a lot with getting my mind to shut up and my thoughts to stop racing, but it's not usually because I'm excited about something. Walking home today, I was just filled with so much excitement for my future education and so much passion psychology and everything I'm learning. Being this excited about something is a big deal for me.
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