My name is Dymond Torres who currently attends The New york city college of technology, majoring in liberal arts. Liberal arts is not the major I am trying to pursue a career in, so in the future I would like to major in Psychology. The reason why I want to major in this field is to be able to understand and help people who need someone to talk to, these kinds of people are called psychiatrist. in order for me to succeeded in this major and go into the field, I would actually have to transfer to another school. The school I want to transfer to is LIU. In this essay I will do research and interview a professor in this specific major. I also hope to gain a little more knowledge on how long and what I need in order to become a psychiatrist.
Becoming a psychologist is challenging because there are many steps you have to take before having enough experience to enter this field. I would have to understand the way a persons mind works in order to help them. the reason I want to take on this career is so i can be able to help different people who are going through problems, find what will help cure that problem. This may sound easy but the classes you would need in order to know this information is Chemistry, psychology and biology. “Psychiatrists have a deep comprehension of the chemical processes occurring in the brain, and since they can prescribe medicine, they must understand the impact drugs can have on neurological health”(Ivan Kenneally). I have to know about the brain in order to understand whats going on in each individuals thoughts. It is very difficult because of the amount time you are in school after you get your bachelor’s degree, basically your trying to become a doctor but in psychology. I would like to prevent people from going down the wrong path.
Since I have to be in school for so many years, I feel like it will strive me to push myself to work as hard as I can. my second reason is because of the benefits I may have after medical school. To get a job after school is very hard if you do not have connections to anyone in that field. So for me With all the medical school and preparation I am to a get a internship and receive a job after my school career. Employment in new york is 25,040 and the employment rise is 4.5%(Bureau of labor statistics). That may seem little but all data is collected with in each state. So my future holds a lot and it is up to me to make that decision to go through with being a psychiatrist. To also get into this field you have to be willing to be competitive and strive to be on top. Like any other medical school the students are always competitive since the field is not easy to achieve. “40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree” (New york times). Even though they were talking about science majors, psychology majors have to take chemistry and biology and some people are not good at those specific subjects. Which is why the competition level is high but also the amount of people who fail or drop out is big too.
As I said before about competition and the rate of drop outs this led to my final reason why I want to become a psychiatrist. My third reason is because I want to succeeded in life and to live better. I feel this way because I know that I can push myself to achieve a goal I really want and just looking around at people I know , that struggling I know that it is time to start getting my life together. To think about the future and never the past. Which is why my goal in life is to be in the high end. I want to make money but also help people with their own life problems, things that they can not handle on their own even if they have family. The thought of my own life helps me strive to make a better life choice and be a better person. “The BLS reports that clinical psychologists and counselors who worked for offices of other health practitioners earned an average of $83,650 a year”(Heidi Cardenas). This was back in 2011, so the rate for the average pay has increased throughout time. This is many reason why I want to do this type of work. It may sound selfish but I have many reason to want to have a high paying job, but of course who wouldn’t. I would not struggle and could always give back to those who have gave to me.
There are many schools other schools that have psychology as a major. But I choice to want to transfer to LIU because this schools has a good system. In LIU the psychology major is very good. The have all courses and also have medical field for students who need it in order to receive a medical degree in psychology(LIU web site). But These reason are for me to be better than what I am now, to accomplish goals i believe I can reach if I just try hard enough. Anyone can do what they want it is just your decision to pursue that dream. And my dream is to have a degree in medical field to become a psychiatrist.

Work cited
Cardenas, Heidi. “How much do clinical psychiatrists make?” thru 4 DEC. 2014
Drew, Christopher. “Why science majors change their minds(Its just so darn hard).” Nov 4. 2011. Thurs 4 DEC. 2014
Kenneally, Ivan “Recommended college courses to become a psychiatrist.” higher education prep. Weds 3 DEC. 2014.
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INTRODUCTION:

In Eng1101 we had to write about our brain and put it in to a project. To explain how our own brain functions threw out and entire day and to tell the readers about why you think certain things. Also to give the reader a chance to look at something they may never have done before.

THINKING IN WRITING:

This is the second part of the project were we had to pick a day to write about what we were thinking every thirty minutes at least and put it down on paper and then write a post about it for homework. my thought were about my financial aid problem, playing basketball, sleeping and finding work.

THINKING VISUALLY:

My first picture is called  “May I have less money please”

My second picture is called “I need sleep”

My third picture is called “Basketball is my favorite sport”

And my last picture is called “I need a job asap”

THINKING RHETORICALLY AND REFLECTIVELY:

My name is Dymond R. Torres I am eight teen years old and have three older siblings, my brother actually goes to city tech as well. I just started going to city tech just about two months ago. I’m also majoring in liberal arts which is a major for students that don’t have much of an idea about what they want to be in the near future. Sometimes I get frustrated at all the work that needs to be done when thinking about what to be when im older. My sister always told me college wouldn’t be easy but i didn’t listen, of course because I felt like since you choose what you want to take it will be better for you. Well that is the opposite, school is hard which is why I try to make it my main focus out of everything else that I do on a daily bases. Like playing basketball, changing my financial aid, trying to get more sleep, playing the ps4 and working. I also tend to over think a lot of unnecessary things because I fear I will be wrong. This act use to lower my participation grade since I was in middle school. i always had a hard time raising my hand and answering questions just because I over think what others might think about my answer or even the teacher. I sill barely participate in my classes now since there all new faces I’ve never seen before. So the habit should stop which is probably what you, whom ever reads this essay will think. When I over think or think way too much for my brain I start to think zone out a lot and that is not good. I already day dream enough so thinking will just cause the problem to become worse as time goes on. I argue if over thinking about what people think or what you think about yourself will cause problems in your future.
When we had to pick a day to write our thoughts for this project I kept thinking that I think about a lot of things but are they different, no they are not. The thoughts are always similar each day, I thought it was kind of weird at first but then it seems like some people could think about their life so many times in different ways. I had a lot of thought and only wrote down the ones that popped up the most in my head or that were important to me. The most four important ones that I had taken a pictures of was my bed, the basketball court, the financial aid office, and finding a job. These four things are something I always think about because they connect to one another. I have trouble finding a job to help pay for financial aid and with everything going on in school I pretty much don’t have time to myself and when I do I love to be alone and whether it is in the park or in my room. I also try to relax as much as possible so I’m not as grumpy when my family comes home from working. This argues that I think about others and there feelings but sometimes I wonder if they do the same. When they ask how my day went or how was school i get a little bit mad because I usually don’t like to talk about my day because it is always the same each and everyday. So should I stop thinking and just go with the flow or should I continue  to think about others opinion.
Playing basketball is very hard for a female because I for one only play with boys, no female plays the sports outside of school were I live so it is kind of frustrating because I don’t really have someone in common with me. When I think about what the guys think about how I play they say im good for a girl, but honestly thinking how would they know. No one had ever seen me play with other females before, but I take the compliment anyways because it makes me feel like I can actually play with certain guys who don’t judge me because I am a female. Although I think that I’m not that good because of other people’s comments toward me like “she is a girl i will not hold her” “lets go easy on her because she is a girl.” It lowers my confident level a lot and give up on myself or feel upset. Most people do not and will never understand how they make others feel with their negative comments. So as time went on I learned that the only way to shut someone up is to show them that females nd males can do the same thing. And of course there will always be that judgement everywhere you go and I have learned that but it is up to that person to believe in themselves boost their own confident. I learn by watching my brother play and my cousins because they have the most confident I know and it seems like it is good to not think so much about what others think of you.
Financial aid situation is really taking up my time. Every time I went to the office something new kept coming up and because I am a freshmen I don’t really know how the system works. On day i went to the office and all i asked was a simple question, this person was being really rude and kept giving me attitude like he did not want to help me. I was quite and didn’t talk back because then I felt like I would be judge for talking to a grown up with disrespect. Later on that day I told my parent and they explained to me that when people are rude you have to be rude back to show them that it is not okay to talk to someone like that. For me it is really hard because I’m not the type to snap and someone so quickly because of the judgement I will receive from them or even the help that they will provide for me. So i learned that you have to treat people how they treat you no matter what the situation is because then they will think that it is okay to do it to others all the time.
Job searching is so difficult nowadays. Why do we have to be a certain age to work, how come nobody needs help in any store, why when you go to get an application they stare at you. I wonder all the time is it because they need good,smart, hard working people to hire. Of course trying to find a job is not easy none said it was unless you have connection, but I don’t so I struggle to find one that will make me feel comfortable and will work between my school time. I would love to work in a place were everyone is nice to you people don’t judge but that will never happen there is always someone who seems to think they are better than you. I start to over think about these things and end up not even finding work. So now I am stuck so h’m starting to learn that over thinking can lead to not getting the things you want in life because you listen to the people who don’t want you to succeed at anything. This will help me in the future and to start being focused on what I have to do because in reality people are always going to judge.
  WORK CITED
Dymond (Dymond R. Torres). ” Re: Project 1: thinking in writing.” Open lab. ENG1101 D377 English composition 1. FA2014. 19 sept.2014. Thurs.9.Oct 2014.
Torres, Dymond. “Basketball is my favorite sport”
Flickr. Thur.9.Oct 2014
Fri.10.Oct 2014
Torres, Dymond. “May i have less money please.”
Flickr. Wed.8.Oct 2014.
Fri.10.Oct 2014.
Torres, Dymond. “I need sleep.”
Flickr. Tues.7.Oct 2014
Fri.10.Oct 2014
Torres, Dymond. “I need a job”
Flickr. Mon.6.Oct 2014
Fri.10.Oct 2014