This Friday is the day that we find out if we "matched" with an internship site. At 10am Eastern (9am Central), emails will be sent out and they will say yes, you matched or no, you did not match. If I do match, I won't find out where until Monday. If I don't match, Monday is the day that the dreaded Clearinghouse opens. Clearinghouse is where unmatched future interns and unmatched internship sites try to quickly find each other. There will be around 700 people who do not get an internship site.
Why is this so important? Because you cannot complete your doctorate in psychology without a one year internship. You will remain in limbo until it is done. This is the single most important moment in our academic careers to this point. Everything hangs on this internship.
Everyone looks and feels terrible this week. Even the more positive people are tense and mildly depressed. Personally, I have two very painful and prominent pimples (more to come, I'm sure) and a stomach that feels nauseated. To combat the stress, I will be upping the amount of exercise that I get, making sure that I get plenty of sleep, and upping my level of general productivity.
At the end of the day, I know that God is in control and that He will place me where he wants me. As a very weak human, it is easy for me to forget that and to imagine that I have some type of control over my life. I could use prayers this week.
I will keep you updated!
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I'm praying 'hard' for you, little one! :-) Auntie T.
I'm also praying for you. (And thanking God for you, while I'm shopping for a laptop.)
God certainly knows what He's doing. It's just hard on us while we wait. :)
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