What university to choose?

You are in your final year of cegep at St-Agpit. It is time for you to choose at which university you are going to apply. Your main choices are the University of Laval in Quebec, which is closer to your house, or the University in Trois-Rivieres. You heard that the Psychology program is better in Trois-Rivieres, but you would have to go in an apartment and find a job to go there. If you choose to go to Quebec, you will be able to stay home while going to school, and you won't have to work as much because your parents will pay for your food, Wi-Fi, electricity etc. What should do?

Choice 1 : University of Laval in Quebec!

Choice 2 : University of Trois-Riviere!

You apply to the University of Laval in Quebec!

You are so happy! You are starting university tomorrow in Quebec where you applied and got accepted a few months ago! You are happy you are able to stay home while going to school, you made a good choice. You look at your phone, and you realise you just had an invitation for a little party tonight with all of the Psychology program students! It would be a great occasion to meet your classmates and make friends, but you don't want to be tired tomorrow for the first day of class... What should you do?

Choice 1 : Go to the party!

Choice 2 : Stay home!

You apply to the University of Trois-Riviere!

School starts tomorrow at the University of Trois-Rivieres where you got accepted a few months ago! You are now in an apartment, and you found a new job in a little restaurant close to the university, and you love it. When you arrived in Trois-Rivieres in the beginning of the summer, you first got a job as a secretary in a big shop. But, when you were only a trainee, you realized this place was a bad work environment. There were a lot of corruptions ingrained in the company. In the first week you were there, the boss asked you to take money in the assets of the company and put it in his personal account. You immediately knew something was not right, and you told your boss you would not do it. After that, he threatened you that you could lose your job if you were not doing what he told you. The next morning, you went to the shop and gave them your resignation letter. There was no chance you could work in a corrupt place. The next week, you fortunately got engaged in the little restaurant. It is now the next morning, you had a good night of sleep, you are in your first class that is called social psychology. In this class, they offer you to go volunteer abroad during one month and do research on your experience. That would make you miss a lot of class, but it seems to be a nice experience. You have to tell your answer today, what should you do?

Choice 1 : Go volunteer abroad!

Choice 2 : Stay and concentrate on your studies.

Go to the party!

You decided to go to the party! What a good opportunity to make friends! You have now arrived, and there are approximately 30 people in the house. You go greet everybody. You are a bit shy at the beginning, but you are now talking with a girl and two guys that are also in their first year of university, and they are very kind to you! Slowly, you are a bit more confident, these people are very nice, you feel like you made a good decision coming here. Suddenly, you see in another room a guy flirting with a girl, touching her arms and neck, but she does not seem to like it... You tell what you see to your new friends and one of the guys goes straight to the girl who seems uncomfortable and asks her if she is alright. The girl immediately tells him no and the guy asks the perpetrator of this misconduct to go home. The poor girl thanks my new friend, whose name is Luca, for his help. At midnight, you decide to go to sleep because tomorrow is a big day! The next morning, you sit with my new friends in class. In this class, you have to choose a place where you would like to do your first internship. You hesitate between a school and a hospital... Where should you go?

Choice 1 : You go in a school.

Choice 2 : You go in an hospital.

Stay home!

It is now the middle of the semester, even if you did not go to the party the night before the beginning of the semester, you were able to make a ton of friends in your class! You are at the moment in the library with a group of friends studying for a big exam you have tomorrow. You always have straight A's in this class called cognitive processes. You have been studying for more than two hours, and you are all very tired. One of your friends, Amelia, asks the group if some of them want to go to the restaurant and go to the bar after. This evening plan seems like a lot of fun, but you should maybe continue studying... What should you do?

Choice 1 : Stay at the library and study.

Choice 2 : go to the restaurant.

Go volunteer abroad!

A month ago, you chose to go volunteer abroad in Guatemala for a week with your Social Psychology class. You are now arrived in the orphanage were you will spend the next weeks! At first, you were skeptical to leave because it will make you miss a lot of classes, but now that you are here, you realize how much of an invaluable experience you are leaving. The first day, you meet the kids, and you make activities with them to try evaluate their mental stability like you learn in your class. Your purpose is to find the kids that present certain types of trauma so, during your time in Guatemala, you can help them get better. This experience is a great challenge because your Spanish is not the best! You have now been in Guatemala for one month, your group is going back to Quebec tomorrow. You really enjoyed your time here, and you helped a lot of kids get better. The owner of the orphanage comes and thanks you for what you did. He suddenly proposes to you to stay another full month during which you would earn a wage to continue helping the children. You would love to stay, but that would oblige you to abandon your semester and restart it... What should you do?

Choice 1 : Stay in Guatemala.

Choice 2 : Go back to Quebec.

Stay and concentrate on your studies.

It is now the middle of the semester and half of your classmates are now in Guatemala for Social Psychology class, but you are happy you did not go because you can concentrate on your studies which is more important to you. Earlier this week, you met a psychologist who works for the director of youth protection (DPJ) who offered you too do an internship with her. You accepted the proposition and today is your first day. For the first week of the internship, you will only be observing. The first case of the day, you meet a father whose children are in a host family because he was beating them. All day, you go from one case to the other and every story is worst than the one before. You feel powerless just hearing these horror stories, and you did not feel any contentment during your internship day. You feel like you don't belong here, and that this is not the right place environment for you. Should you continue, and maybe you will eventually like this place? Should you inform the psychologist who proposed to you this internship that you would like to quit because you don't feel like this job work environment is for you?

Choice 1 : Stay at the DPJ.

Choice 2 : Quit the internship.

Stay in Guatemala.

You have decided to stay for another month. Two of your classmates have decided to stay with you. You will be able to continue your semester after the Christmas break. You are now getting better and better in Spanish and you have been able to diagnose some of the children with problems like insomnia, obsessions, dissociation, and phobias. Now that you now what they are suffering from, you can treat them properly with the right medication and therapy. You are so happy you are able to help children that have suffered so much in their lives while earning a wage. At the end of the month, you wish you could stay here a bit longer, but it is time to go back to University if you want to become a real psychologist someday! This experience will be something you will forever remember. You promise to yourself to go back to Guatemala one day and see what these children have become!

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

Go back to Quebec.

You are now back in Quebec after a week volunteering in Guatemala. It was a really worthwhile experience. You now have a lot to work to do to catch up with your studies, you have to make a good time management. The mid-term exams are coming soon, and you must get prepared. You also have to choose what kind of internship for the next term you would like to do. You have two choices: You could go in a private psychology cabinet, or you could do research in psychology in an institution. Which one do you choose?

Choice 1 : Research in psychology.

Choice 2 : Private cabinet.

You go in a school.

It is your fourth week of the internship in a secondary school, and you love it! You were able to develop a good bond with the teenagers that are coming to see you and the psychologist supervising your internship. Today, you are meeting a new teenager alone for the first time. During the appointment, he tells you about how he is bullied by his classmates, and that he thinks about ending his life. You try to remain calm and professional in your reaction. You explain to him you can help him, and that he can come see you at anytime. After the appointment, you are in choc. You don't know if you should refer him to somebody who is a professional in this kind of situation about, and brake the professional ethic, or you should continue seeing him, and help him the best you can to avoid him from taking his own life. What should you do?

Choice 1 : Refer him to a professional in this type of situation

Choice 2 : You continue to see him

You go in an hospital.

You are starting your second month in the hospital where you chose to do your internship.You like it, but you know you will not be working in a hospital all your life. The work schedule is to unpredictable, and you like to be structured. However, you decided to stay because you think it is a great experience, and because of the variety of people you are meeting, you learn with which category of people you prefer. Your internship supervisor proposes to you to change area and go in pediatric psychology. You like doing general psychology because it is always different but working exclusively with children would be a great experience. What do you choose?

Choice 1 : Go in pediatric psychology.

Choice 2 : stay in general psychology.

go to the restaurant.

You decide that you have been studying enough and that you are allowed to take a break! You go to the restaurant and that is when you meet students that are a term ahead of you. You and your group go sit with them, and you talk to the group about the exam you have the next morning. One of the older students, starts to tell you all about the questions he remembers of this exam! You are so happy because you know that this teacher of the Neurophysiology class always reuses the same exam year after year. The next morning, your exam goes well because you knew a lot of answers that were going to be in it. What a chance you went to the restaurant!

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

Stay at the library and study.

You decide to be thoughtful and continue to study and go to sleep early. Sometimes, you have to put aside activities to get good grades. Some of your friends stay with you to continue studying. There is a lot of content, and it is a really important exam. You and your group stay up until 10 o'clock to study. The next morning, you are confident that the exam is going to go well. But the second you enter the school, there is a big power cut in the building. All classes and exams are cancel for the day! You and your group of friends are discouraged. You stayed all night studying for nothing!

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

Stay at the DPJ.

It has now been two years since you have decided to stay at DPJ internship. You are now working there while finishing your bachelor degree. You learnt to love helping children and families that need it. At first, you did not like this work environment, but you learnt to love it! After your studies, you will be hired here for sure because the team likes the way you work. There are a lot of vacant position in the organisation that you would like to fill when you graduate as psychologist.

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

Quit the internship.

Working with dysfunctional families was not for you, and you made a good decision quitting the internship at the DPJ. You did not find yourself a new internship yet, but you are looking at your options.

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

Go in pediatric psychology.

It has been two weeks since you have started working in the pediatric department and, you do not really like it. More often than not, the children do not want to cooperate with you so you have difficulty diagnosing them. This affects your confidence, and it does not make you feel contentment. In other words, you feel powerless with these children that you would like to help, but are not able to. You know that next semester, you will be going back to general psychology.

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

stay in general psychology.

It has been 3 weeks since you chose to stay in general psychology, and you are happy with your decision. You have started working with more, and more retired people, and you really enjoy it. These people often have a lot to say, and you love to help them get through tough times. Sometimes, they have psychological problems since a long time, and now wish to get better. You also help people get through traumas after a big accident or mortality. You like working with these patients because their backgrounds are always different. You start to enjoy more and more working in a hospital!

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

You choose to continue to see him.

You choose to continue seeing him and try to help him the better. He confided to you, so you feel like you could be the best person to help him get through this tough time. You organize two 1-hour meetings per week with him, so he can talk to you about his suicidal thoughts. With time, your internship supervisor, who reads your reports on your meetings with the teenagers, suggests that you refer him to an organization, because a school psychologist is often not enough to help these kinds of patients. You decide to listen to your supervisor and refer him, you tried your best to help him.

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

you choose to refer him.

You choose to refer him to the Suicide Action Montreal organization because you feel like you are not the right person to help him. This way, you will know for sure that people are well-taking care of him. A few months later, you are still working in the same school. The teenager that you referred to the suicidal prevention institution enters your office. He thanks you for having referred him. The organization really helped him, and now he is doing great. You are so happy for him, you made the right decision!

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

Research in psychology.

It has been 2 months since you have started your internship in psychology research ad you love it. You have always wanted to help find a cure to Alzheimer, and other psychological diseases. The work team is fun and your supervisor is really understanding and patient. She takes time to explain to you what are the progress they have made each week, and what needs to be done. You enjoy discovering new things, and you feel like there is purpose in your internship. Maybe after you graduate you will become a psychologist doing her own research?

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning

Private cabinet.

You have been doing an internship in a private cabinet of Quebec for two weeks, and you find your days very long. Your supervisor is not a very patient person, and he does not let you do a lot of things. You are always only looking and listening, you wish you could do a little bit more. Maybe, you can change your internship after the term?

Choice 1 : go back to the beginning