Statement Of Purpose: Forensic Psychology

All my years since I got here to America I have struggled with the English language. It 's been now thirteen years. I got to the United States already being bilingual but, in Spanish and French. Being here meant I had to add another language to my vocabulary. However, something terrible happened, once I learned English, it was as if French was never a language I spoke fluently. I completely forgot how to speak French and English became my second language. Throughout high school, I started to notice how difficult it was for me to write. English isn’t an easy language. I found it hard to get write what I was thinking. I didn’t know how to word phrases the way I heard them in my head or how I thought I should say them. I tried different ways …show more content…
It is basically still the same. Forensic psychology had always been my top choice, it 's much more than just psychology. These psychologists apply psychological knowledge to legal matters, both in the criminal and civil arenas. After that career, if we are going from top choice down, I would say human resources is the next. This goes in line with being an industrial-organizational psychologist. They study worker attitudes and behaviors.I sometimes see myself working in an office for a large corporate company and psychology has interested me so why not combine the …show more content…
The class was called Wonderlands and nightmares. In this class, we learned all about psychoanalysis, the ego, the superego, the id, and all things Freud as well as others. When I was picking my first classes in college I decided to take general psychology because I was excited to learn more. I find it important to be able to have a certain or at least good understanding of how the mind and brain work just to understand how people operate as so some people have no idea how their own mine works even at relative obvious levels. I have an interest in people and why they do what they do and why they think what they think and why they feel what they feel. Every time I go to any public place like the mall or the beach or even just outside walking I noticed that I tend to pay attention to how people behave. It 's amazing how one event or the way we live and society can trigger/change the way a person behaves and thinks. Picking psychology as my major was the best