TL has been very important to me and has been a good friend for almost 10 years. I have always shared a lot of personal stories with this forum from as early as 2002. From blind dates to girlfriends, friend meetings to travel pictures and stories, and not to forget school related questions and concerts.. Of course the community has changed drastically and expanded exponentially, which has led me to privatize and edit some of these stories. To an extent I also feel less inclined to share personal stories with TL due to my age (27!), and the fact that I actually have a lot of friends now. Or well, enough.
This time though, the story is far from damaging or sensitive and I really want to share it. The story is simple: Imhappy. To be precise, I just fucking graduated cum laude from the (supposedly) best psychology studies in the country with a 8.5 average for the master Educational Psychology (now renamed to Learning and Human Performance). Professor Paas, a famous educational psychology and instructional design researcher, asked me to search for my own thesis subject and create a research proposal for the appropriate research questions.
I do want to say too much about the study yet, but we ended up testing over 80 children (ages 10-12) during two sessions with self-designed study and test materials to investigate if the structure of a learning task influences the experienced affect, and immediate and delayed study behaviour and test performance. This led to interesting results which could and should be published in a good journal, and a solid 9.0 for the thesis (which apparently is insanely high! Whoop whoop!)
Some of you may remember my story from previous blogs. I’m a high school dropout who basically had nothing due to private circumstances. I set goals and worked hard, which led to graduating cum laude, most likely a publication, a temporary position at the university, additional research together with awesome researchers and hopefully soon a good phd-position.
Moral of the story: set goals and work hard for them. There are tons of possibilities even when life does not always go your way.
Child psychology is pretty fascinating, I bet your results were very interesting! I saw this video yesterday and frankly it blew my mind. These kids are much younger than the ones you tested though. + Show Spoiler +
They are not yet fully logical creatures.
Congratulations on your success, and long live the spirit of pre-boom TL
Congrats!! You are one of my fav mod especially because your patience in taking care and putting friendly warnings on top of SC2 LR threads! That place would be much worse without you tending to it.
Just wondering, does moderating SC2 LR thread help with dealing with children aged 10-12? ( i am guessing not really. More like 5-7)
Hehe thanks guys! Didnt realize that the brain icon would be noticed so much, haha. Outgrew the cartman icon!
On September 02 2011 00:14 SHr3DD3r wrote: Awesome stuff. Love the brain Icon Wish you all the best.
If only I could work towards the goals I set for my self. Herp derp - can't even concentrate on anything lol.
Psychological study on LoL Trolls incoming?
If only but LoL population is like investigating 12 year olds I feel hahha, even the "professionals" are generally kids.
On September 02 2011 00:19 Meta wrote: Child psychology is pretty fascinating, I bet your results were very interesting! I saw this video yesterday and frankly it blew my mind. These kids are much younger than the ones you tested though. + Show Spoiler +
Congratulations on your success, and long live the spirit of pre-boom TL
Cool eh? Famous psychological task by Piaget, awesome to see.
On September 02 2011 00:26 dtz wrote: Congrats!! You are one of my fav mod especially because your patience in taking care and putting friendly warnings on top of SC2 LR threads! That place would be much worse without you tending to it.
Just wondering, does moderating SC2 LR thread help with dealing with children aged 10-12? ( i am guessing not really. More like 5-7)
Hahah good question. Sometimes its much younger, but I think that kindness and rewarding positivity leads to better moderation in general ^_^
On September 02 2011 00:36 Sarasin wrote: You should really share more details so us people who know about the subject and be sufficiently awed. =D
Will do once a journal accepts it. Dont want my ideas stolen Apparently that happens a lot haha
Congrats man, love the words of wisdom. After watching Day[9]'s AMA last night and seeing this, it just goes to show that you need to just, "go fucking do it" and set goals. Congrats again on how well you have done for yourself. Now go celebrate a bit.
EPT
but LoL population is like investigating 12 year olds I feel hahha, even the "professionals" are generally kids.
