Bleh. Help, Please
Apr. 23rd, 2003 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sjesterSo, I'm working on my personal statement thingie, and I've got something. I don't know what to do with it, though. Seems like it needs some kind of improvement. I'd appreciate any feedback on it.
My main problem and lifelong frustration is that I am interested in everything. Or nearly everything. My favorite things are patterns, paradoxes, connections. The wider knowledge can go, the better. This of course, makes it difficult to set goals any narrrower than the pursuit of ideas.
Before college, I had found two areas most suited to me for the fulfillment (or attempt at it) of that goal – English and Philosophy. Yet I felt pressure to narrow my focus further, to a single discipline. Unable to choose between English and Philosophy, I turned aside from both to study Biology. I t was a decision driven by whim, but not altogether a bad one, as I did enjoy studying the subject. But the fit wasn’t quite right. As a science major, my writing abilities began to suffer. what was once so easy became increasingly difficult. This was more distressing than I realized, as I find writing and thinking are intimately linked.
So now I have come to the conclusion that I’ll be most happy in interdisciplinary study and won’t muck around with anything else again.
My main problem and lifelong frustration is that I am interested in everything. Or nearly everything. My favorite things are patterns, paradoxes, connections. The wider knowledge can go, the better. This of course, makes it difficult to set goals any narrrower than the pursuit of ideas.
Before college, I had found two areas most suited to me for the fulfillment (or attempt at it) of that goal – English and Philosophy. Yet I felt pressure to narrow my focus further, to a single discipline. Unable to choose between English and Philosophy, I turned aside from both to study Biology. I t was a decision driven by whim, but not altogether a bad one, as I did enjoy studying the subject. But the fit wasn’t quite right. As a science major, my writing abilities began to suffer. what was once so easy became increasingly difficult. This was more distressing than I realized, as I find writing and thinking are intimately linked.
So now I have come to the conclusion that I’ll be most happy in interdisciplinary study and won’t muck around with anything else again.
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Date: 2003-04-26 09:30 am (UTC)--Sunil