Psych 101

 Yes I was a Clinical Psych major.  I was on a fast track to start on a doctorate.  I'll talk reasons I didn't another time.

The staff was one of the best Psych departments around, along with the Socio Dept.  Good memories of those days and the opportunities with which I did avail myself.

Psych 101 is the basic course all take for a Bachelor's no matter the major.  

Many stories could ensue and maybe I'll do a bio one day.

Here is an interesting interlude.

My intro class was taught by my mentor, the head of the Psych department.  Great guy and quite human, not stuffy.

He interlaced facts with anecdotes and tales of a much travelled life.

There are a lot of initial lessons to be learned, as in all of life.

One of them is observation/perception.

During a lecture, someone rushed into the room creating a disturbance.  It wasn't too violent, just enough to jar us, at least supposedly.

It quieted down and our prof said it was a test.  He asked each of us to describe what happened, with details of appearance etc.

Many over or under observed.  Mine was one of the most accurate.  Tooting my own horn lol.

It's important to develop observation/perception skills.  It's true for all kinds of events.  Tumultuous times, in which the fate of the country and the world hang in the balance, demands it.

Funny enough, I watched A Man Called Intrepid about Sir William Stephenson and his org during WW2 last night.  Whatever you think of intel today, many were sacrificed for Freedom.  The ones who would be our masters use techniques, as do we, to further a cause.

The scenario described above was used in agent training, though in a more intense way.

May we all be graduates of Freedom 101.

Our post grad future awaits.