Once again I find myself talking about my clothes!

[cosmolinguist]

I wore my binary t-shirt today and we ended up talking about binary in my CSci class. Happily, these two things are not related; otherwise I really would be a dork.

I went to my next class and told star_eyed_lady "That was a fun class. I learned binary. Again."

"You're such a geek," she told me.

"Shut up! Am not!" I said. "Well, okay, so maybe." But really, what kind of geek plans to read half of a dumb 18th-century book called The Castle of Otranto over their Labor Day weekend?

Actually, I really like this diversity. I think I realized that that's what drives me crazy about needing a major: it maens I can't do everything at once. I don't like any one thing as much as I like the combination of everything.

Even now, I don't have it so bad. Yseterday I diagrammed sentences for the first time in my life. This morning I did binary-to-decimal conversions in my head, and then talked about the philosophy of the sublime. Tomorrow I get to say a couple things about quantum mechanics to my history class (I actually volunteered for that). I love this life.

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That's why I liked being an el ed major...

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

...I got to take a variety of classes in different subject areas! :)

Sure, they were all centered around how to teach them to children, but I got my math, science, social studies, reading, language arts, physical education, etc., so I wasn't bored with taking 5 of the same subject as you might with other majors.

Like you, it was hard for me to choose one major because I like each subject area -- but only to a a certain point. If I took a concentrated amount of one subject, I'd probably end up disliking it.

You could always do liberal arts for the human services...I think that has a variety of courses to choose from (but I could be wrong since I never looked in the catalog)...and I've heard it's a painstakingly easy major.

I'm glad you're enjoying your life! My life consists of cleaning, working, eating, and sleeping -- it doesn't sound too exciting, admittedly, but I'm surprisingly happy. Perhaps because when it's all said and done, I will have clean living quarters! :)

That, and Seth's coming down this weekend. :)

[carpeicthus.livejournal.com]

what kind of geek plans to read half of a dumb 18th-century book called The Castle of Otranto over their Labor Day weekend?

My kind of geek.

Awww

[cosmolinguist]

That made me smile.

The book, so far, has not, but maybe it'll help if I think of it as a geeky thing to do.

(The sad thing is that I'm not completely joking there.)

Re: Awww

[carpeicthus.livejournal.com]

A little bit of geekdom makes anything better.

In praise of geekdom

[5-rings.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the binary shirt is pretty geeky, but I could think of something geekier still, like, say, getting CafePress to make a t-shirt which reads, "#00bb00-eyed girls are hot" :-)

Re: In praise of geekdom

[cosmolinguist]

Of course there are geekier. I think this shirt is one with a relatively wide appeal--you don't have to be very geeky to get it. The very website it came from this comes from has t-shirts that don't make sense to me at all geek liaison though I may be :-).

But I know if soltice sees that I've written anything about binary, she'll mention hexadecimal again. She always does. There are definitely geekier things ... but it's still true that there are only 10 types of people in the world.

[kratkrat.livejournal.com]

"I think I realized that that's what drives me crazy about needing a major: it maens I can't do everything at once."

Ever consider geography?

Seriously. I majored in geography, and one thing I learned is that people who study it pick it because they like everything and can't make up their minds about what they want to study. They are an eclectic bunch. That is why I fit right in.

The essence of geography is spatial relations. So, if you want to study something, all you have to do is view it through a spatial lens and PRESTO... it's geography. Several profs of mine had their interests change over the years. They were able to keep on keeping on in a geography department, because they just did their thing as a geographer would.

It may be a bit dated by now, but you might want to consider reading "The Geographer at Work" by the late Peter Gould. He was a professor of mine at Penn State, and was one of the most-cited geographers for nearly thirty years. He also wrote, I think, in an engaging fashion. I still bust out that book for pleasure reading from time to time.

[cosmolinguist]

That is really interesting. It never occurred to me to think about geography like that before. I don't even know if it is a major here (my school's tiny, and the choices are pretty basic), but even so the idea intrigues me ... if I can get my hands on it, I probably will read that book. I always love new ideas, new ways of looking at things, and you've already supplied that for me. :-)

[czircon.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about being driven crazy by needing a major. I'm getting out of journalism, but I don't know how I'll ever be able to decide what my new major will be, because like you, I don't like any one thing as much as the combination of everything. There are lots of majors that vaguely interest me, but I'd probably get sick of all of them before long. Sigh.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what's happened to me. At this point, I don't even care any more; I'll keep the English because anything else would be grossly complicated. Still ...

I wish us both luck! We'll probably need it.

A--well, several, really--word(s) of caution

[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

If you're going to read half of that book over the weekend, you'd better do it all on Saturday, because I know you won't be reading it if I'm around.

That's very kind of you

[cosmolinguist]

I'd thought of that, actually, so I've read fifty pages alraedy, which is half of the half I have to read. It's slow but that just makes me more proud of my progress and my responsibility. You should be too.