Having a student body that has a lot of working
adults like myself, that drew me to the university
because I felt like I could lean on a lot
of the students here in a way
because we're all in the same boat 
working full time and still studying.
I chose Industrial-Organizational Psychology
master's program because I was interested
in how psychology can be implemented 
into the workplace.
I've always been interested with business.
I've grown an interest in higher education
while being an undergraduate student, so I was
interested to see how I could mesh my interest
for psychology with organizations in the workplace.
I would certainly say in our program that
we have an applied focus, which is a really,
really unique and interesting aspect about our
program because other programs that I know
of are very theoretical and they focus pretty
much solely on the theory and that type of
thought process, and while we do focus on
that here, we also look at how we can actually
apply it to various settings and different
things in the workplace.
The courses in my program are very diverse
so when we're in discussion in the classroom
talking about a subject in I-O psychology
each student in the classroom is applying
it to their experience, so it's giving us
widespread of experiences so we can 
so we can take that knowledge
to our careers after we leave here.
So the Applied Psych I-O program definitely is
giving me the confidence that I can accomplish
what I want to in my career, whether or not that
would be going out and getting different types
of certifications, taking on leadership roles,
finding things that we could change,
going out and doing consulting type work, it definitely
is giving me the confidence that I know what
I can do and what I can bring to the table.
