[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Culture, speaking, choice

[Zorb17 at aol.com]

kimberly asked:
>>So what I'd like to know is, how exactly do you know on which side of 
this particular fence you belong?  I mean, I knew growing up that 
humanities were harder for me, but I liked a challenge, and 
considered the other classes boring except during those "eureka" 
moments when a new concept clicked.  So am I the only one so out-of-
touch with herself that she didn't figure this out, or is this a 
common confusion?<<

You are not at all alone here.  I'm a permanent inhabitant of the fence-top.  
I pay its taxes, have its zip code, and I wear out cushions quickly.  

When I was younger, I always thought I was a humanities person.  This 
probably came from my parents both being math people and recommending that I 
should be a scientist when I grew up.  I, naturally, rejected the notion that 
they might have a point and insisted for years that I would be a writer, then 
later decided I had no idea what I would do, but that it would definitely be 
"non-science."

I went along with this little plan going into college, and I took a 
completely non-science group of classes in my first quarter.  After about a 
month, I was banging my head against the wall.  It wasn't that I *disliked* 
those classes - quite the contrary - but I felt like I was neglecting a big 
part of myself.  I realized I *need* to have both sciences and humanities in 
my life.  This made choosing a major even harder, but I eventually settled on 
something that effectively straddles the fence, and I'm happily working 
towards it as we speak.

>>The tests given by guidance counsellors sure didn't help.<<

Oh, those were the most useless things I ever took!  My results always 
pointed equally to both sides of the fence and had about fifty fields each 
within them.  Very frustrating for a direction-less teenager.


Zorb, done rambling now :-)


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]