"Ellis' Rational Behavior Therapy was to help patients rid themselves of maladaptive and irrational beliefs which led to negative behavior. By focusing on cognition, you can change behavior. His technique is founded on the idea that we have power over our own emotions, destiny, and experiences. We choose to be depressed, angry, frustrated, etc. Ultimately we are in control."
Well that's true, but ridiculously idealistic and it's unpractical to think you can completely change that in people. Guess that's why this guy is a mechanistic psychologist.
"One of the core irrational belief's that people have according to Ellis is what he calls 'demands'. Demands are when we believe that the world ought to be different than how it is.
And.... that makes Ellis' theory (according to Ellis' theory) irrational: The theory places the demand that we should be able to control our actions, experiences, and emotions, when in fact it's a struggle for everyone since we're human. My head hurts, that was too circular. Why am I learning this?
We are informed that there are two places to catch a bus back to school. Both are 20 minutes away, so we ask the tow truck driver where he is heading and go with him. We get to the garage and find out there is no bus station, just a "stop". We call the bus company and find out that the bus doesn't leave until the next day at 1PM. the tow truck driver's wife offered us a ride into town to a nearby hotel. I call and find out there are rooms and we drive in. At midnight that night as I'm trying to fall asleep, the door opens...the door to the room next door, however I can hear it as if it were my door. I hear two men speak as if they are in the room. I can hear them unzip their luggage and then complain about having to share a bed. 
The gentlemen from my last bus gets on and sits right behind me. I soon find out he's an ex-convict. Awesome. Where am I from? Oh, you know, the Massachusetts area (lie). Do I live on campus? Oh, in the general area, it's complicated (lie). This continues for pieces of the almost four hour ride, which would have taken 2 hours tops by car. Meanwhile the bus driver is up front spouting conspiracy theories to the women in the first seat. Sodium florid? They put that in the water to make us dull so they can take over; like the British did in China. And the sex trade, that's run by high ranking government officials. The underwear bomber was really a government plant to get us to agree with them putting full body scanners in airports; you know, they cause radiation, right? The government is trying to kill us slowly! He had 3, almost 4 hours worth of these theories to talk and talk and talk about. 