I'm a 3rd year Psych student, and we have basically no choice over what we do our research dissertations on. This isn't at all what I expected - everyone I knew decided on their undergrad dissertations themselves, no two were alike and they were very self-directed. Whereas while we got to list some preferences, Psychology students here just get assigned to existing projects and have to do them, with varying but honestly very little scope for making them about something you want to do. My friends were mostly humanities students though, so I don't know if this is normal in Psychology across the board or is my university being weird.
So, people who study or studied Psychology, how was/is it done at your uni??