i have almost decided to write my missing essay in pshychology this autumn. it's turned out to be a bit more difficult than i had thought, though. if you start to study the unemployment-thing wants their money back, and they don't care about what date you register to a course, they only care about what date the semester starts (probably so that i can't do all the work before i'm registered to a course, and in that way get a lot of money that i'm not entitled to). i didn't think this would be a problem though, as i have found out that you're allowed to study part-time and still be unemployed (and my essay is only 50% of a semester). unfortunately it turned out that it's impossible to register to just the essay-part of the pshychology course, wchich means i would have to register to the entire (full-time) course in order to write it. which means the unemployment people will consider me as a full-time student and i will have to give them their money back. which i don't want to.

anyway, there's a nice man who has offered to supervise me even though i'm not sure if i can register to the course yet (i'm still trying to find out if it's possible to register in the middle of the term without having to pay the money back from the beginning of august. but it doesn't seem like it). in that case i would register next term, when the essay is allready done (hopefully :).

in order to supervise me he wants me to write about something that interests him, which is language acquisition in children. it's a good thing i've been interested in that too, even though it's been a while since i thought about it... i would probably look at "diary children" (children to early child-language researchers, who based a lot of their research on their own children) with standardised instruments, to see if these children are close to the norm or if they are extreme in any way. at least that's what i think he wants me to do :). right now i'm reading throuh some articles he has sent me, and considering if this seems like something i want to do.   ¶ 2:08 PM