I think I found an easier major than Undecided. Judging from this article, psychology majors must get to sleep in, party late, and take softer classes than star quarterbacks.
Check out this astonishing insight from MSU psychologist Richard Lucas...
But nobody had specifically looked at the impact of big life changes, such as marriage, divorce or unemployment, he said. He found that marriage buoyed the spirits for only about two years, after which the spouses were no happier than they had been as singles.You can tell this is professional journalism by all the sentences started with "but." There's your news flash, getting fired is depressing. Got any other deep thoughts Doc?
But divorce, he found, could plunge you permanently into the emotional dumps. So could losing your job.
His findings, based on several different studies, were published in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science.
On the plus side, he said, divorced people could climb back to the relative happiness they enjoyed as singles by getting remarried. But for those who had been fired, even finding a new job didn't completely repair the damage.
Fired, Unemployment, Depression, Not exactly fun stuff
I really don't get it. Every time a teacher misbehaves with his or her students these days, it makes news. Especially if there is even
I know I would have liked having a teacher who assigned
Did Iowa take a dose of silly pills this year? Yesterday I had a post about a would-be romance novelist fired for lusting and typing on the job.
Scratch one popular myth about Florida. There are places you can't carry a gun, even though there's probably enough guns in Miami alone to make South Beach the third most heavily armed nation on the planet.