Grad School Stuff
Jan. 28th, 2009 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoggedTomorrow is a huge day for me. In fact, it's one of those days that has you spinning between hyperness/excitment and anxiety/fear. Tomorrow I get to find out what it really takes to sit down in a chair across the way from someone and interact with them as counselor and client.
The last five semesters have been training me for this moment. But most of that has been book learning. I had one class my first semester where we learned the basic skills of counseling and got to practice with a partner but that was a classmate. That was someone who was training to be what you were.
I keep telling myself that I'm awesome, that I can do anything I put my mind to, but it's kinda like the feeling I get when I'm waiting in line for a roller coaster I've never ridden. There's a fear, a nervousness that comes when you're standing in a line watching other people going around the tracks at breakneck speeds and you wonder what the hell you're thinking being in that line. But when you finally get on that coaster, there's this rush, this kick of adrenaline that makes it all worth while.
That's the attitude I'm hoping to take in with me tomorrow.
I think that once I get into it (I know I won't be perfect right away but after a few sessions maybe :P), that passion for the work will just come rushing through me.
The last five semesters have been training me for this moment. But most of that has been book learning. I had one class my first semester where we learned the basic skills of counseling and got to practice with a partner but that was a classmate. That was someone who was training to be what you were.
I keep telling myself that I'm awesome, that I can do anything I put my mind to, but it's kinda like the feeling I get when I'm waiting in line for a roller coaster I've never ridden. There's a fear, a nervousness that comes when you're standing in a line watching other people going around the tracks at breakneck speeds and you wonder what the hell you're thinking being in that line. But when you finally get on that coaster, there's this rush, this kick of adrenaline that makes it all worth while.
That's the attitude I'm hoping to take in with me tomorrow.
I think that once I get into it (I know I won't be perfect right away but after a few sessions maybe :P), that passion for the work will just come rushing through me.
