It can be a pain not being able to commemorate the end of our school lives with a bang by attending a convocation ceremony or going on a graduation trip with our friends and family! Despite the setbacks forced upon us by a deadly virus, we can still make a productive use of our time. To make this period productive, [...]
Some students doing their psychological studies may be working a full-time (FT) job at the same time. This is quite common especially for those doing their studies in a PEI (private education institute). The question is: Can you handle all the load??? Often it is assumed that if you are studying in a night course, you are doing a part-time [...]
I have been asked before: Is this school better than this other one?? I should answer this question here for a reminder for those who have asked me before, and also for those who are planning to ask this question. This post may or may not cover the local universities, as most people who have asked were comparing amongst the [...]
When we are going through our school days, we often perceive it as one of the most stressful times of our lives. The tsunami of unthinkably complex tasks, assignments and long-drawn-out projects that we must complete can push us to our emotional, physical and psychological ends. Nevertheless, time stops for no one, and soon we realise that our school days [...]
In your early years of psychology training, all you probably would be doing is studying theories and textbooks, writing essays and reporting, understanding how psychological research is done, and analysing SPSS reports, and other things, which are more towards the "scientist" (or researcher) side of the scientist-practitioner model. Rarely or little chance you will be doing more of the practitioner [...]
Dealing with Rejection After understanding more about why rejection hurts, we will now explore what we can do to deal with rejection more positively. Firstly, acknowledge your feelings. It is absolutely normal to feel sad or embarrassed after a rejection, and we should give ourselves space to come to terms with those emotions. Many psychologists also said that the best [...]
I believe one of the things many of us fear or hate to receive in our mailbox would be, “Sorry to inform you that…”. As a second-year undergraduate applying for internships, rejection is almost becoming a daily occurrence for me. Despite how many times I tell myself, “It’s okay”, “Don’t let this define you”, I still find myself sinking into [...]
Overhearing 2 psychology students on the train yesterday (I assume they are psychology students with their knowledge of careers in psychology)... "Did you know that a psychologist's average pay in Singapore is only 4 to 5 thousand dollars a month? But in overseas, a psychologist's pay in a private sector is around 9 to 10 thousand dollars. That's almost like [...]
This question has been asked too many times, hence it deserves a post to be used to explain it.. We often see Bachelors of Science (BSc) in Psychology and Bachelors of Arts (BA) in Psychology, and people may ask what the difference is between these programs, when sometimes both are offered in the university? Basically I have to start off [...]
Before you start reading on, please read this post regarding the comparison of Bachelors degrees first. Ok, I have received several emails from readers regarding their choices of Bachelors degrees, and one common thing they often do is to choose one Australian and one UK degree, and ask me to compare on which is better. However, I always have some [...]