Chelsea A McDevitt

August 16, 2016

PY211K – Fall 2016

Autobiography

Earliest memory –

My earliest memory is when I was about 2 years old and my grandparents were moving out of their house in Fairfax, Vermont to a condo in Burlington. I remember this day because it was the day we got our cat Mitzy, while watching everyone pick through items at my grandparent’s garage sale someone approached my father and I saying that his cat had had a litter of kittens in his barn and he was looking for people to adopt them and if we would be interested. My dad and I thought it would be a great surprise gift for my mom so we drove down and I picked out the smallest and cutest cat they had and put her in a box to take home. When reaching home I remember my mother looking at the box with a funny look on her face and when she proceeded to open it she looked at my father and said “Are you kidding me? A cat? When have I ever said I wanted a cat, you know I don’t like cats?!” And then Mitzy became my cat.

What I liked most about Kindergarten –

When I went to kindergarten the only thing I looked forward to was recess because our class and the class next door was able to merge and play together and my best friend who was like a brother to me got to come over and hang out for an hour. We would play together for the entire hour and when they said recess was over he would kiss my cheek and tell me he would see me on the bus.

Sibling rank order –

I am the 3rd child out of the three kids in my family with a 15 and 16-year gap between myself and the two of them, growing up I was able to get away with a lot more than my older siblings and knowing this I would do a lot of mischievous things to my siblings, especially my sister. Things like getting into my sisters’ makeup, throwing her stuff in the toilet, or just sitting outside her door and pounding it with my fists. Today I feel that being the youngest has caused for a lot of internal competitiveness to live up to or even surpass all that my other two siblings accomplished throughout their academics.

Something that is unique that’s happened to me –

Something unique about me is that in my 2nd year of high school I started my own annual charity event for local veterans here in Vermont, after the first year I got a lot of attention for this event from newspapers and other articles by my senior year I had applied to Norwich and they had already heard of my event and asked me to bring it to college and make it even bigger.

Something that made my parents proud –

I feel that the proudest my parents have been of me was when I called them on the phone to tell them I had been accepted into Norwich Universities nursing program. I had been pushing myself to the extremes for two years to be the best possible student I could be so that I would be able to achieve my dream of becoming a nurse practitioner. After months of non-stop working both academically and outside of school I had been able to call and say I did it and will be the first in my family’s history to go to college.

What would I like to do in the future –

In the future I would love nothing more than to be a nurse practitioner, I can’t remember ever wanting to be something else and it makes me very excited and humbled to know that someday in the next six years I will be able to care for those who cannot care for themselves or who just need a little push of hope and strength.

My areas of interest in psychology –

1)Clinical

2)Developmental

3)Personality/social

4)Experimental

Seven perspectives used by psychologist today questions –

1)Clinical

2)Developmental

3)Biological

4)Cognitive