Academic future of the great-to-be psychologist

It has been a while since we posted here. Mainly due to extreme lack of time. Jack has gotten a new project at work that keeps him busy days, evenings and weekends. I have been busy organising my future academic life and various things around the flat (to be reported in due course). And Tim has been busy being Tim - growing himself, growing teeth, practising walking and running, making sure his opinion is heard loud and clear and generally being cute :)

I haven't been accepted into masters at my old uni because my average score wasn't perfect. So I had the option of either waiting a year and re-applying, giving me an advantage of having two Wartesemester (semesters where you wait for a place and don't study in the meantime, which somehow gives you a competitive advantage) or applying for a course at a paid university. The problem with the first option was that there's no guarantees that I'll get a place next year. Additionally I was hoping to use this year of waiting to get some work experience, but for most work-experience places it turns out that you need to be a student to be able to do it. Because if you're a student you can't sue your employer for not paying you a cent - normal German practice. Finding a paid placement for someone with a Bachelor of Psych is next to impossible since there isn't actually much you can do with this degree as it is.

Thus as of next week I'm going to study at International Psychoanalytic University doing a Master of Arts in Psychology. Unfortunately it costs an arm and a leg, but for that I don't have to wait a year. It also looks like the education that I'll get there might just be a little bit better than what the previous university was able to offer me - smaller class sizes, better facilities, what-looks-like lecturers who are a little bit more interested in teaching rather than just doing their research. The other upside is that it's in the centre, so it cuts my travel time by about 20 mins and I can also get there on my bike riding through central park.

We'll see. I don't want to get my expectations too high to avoid being too disappointed, but so far it's looking good.