On Tuesday I met with a bioengineering advisor at UW about some options there. Upon more reflection, I'm not sure that heads down engineering would be the right fit for me.
On Wednesday I went to Lynden to explore a potential marketing side-project to eat up some of my seemingly endless free time. Wednesday night I helped make sea critters for the Fremont parade. It is part of the anti-plastic bag campaign, so there will be plastic bag monsters eating the pretty sea critters. I'm now trying to figure out how to make a stuffed octopus. Also feeling bad about frequently forgetting my reusable bag when I go to the grocery store.
Yesterday I was a supermodel at REI. Not really, but I modeled some clothes at a buyers meeting at the REI headquarters. That would be a cool place to work! Lots of interesting things going on.
So in thinking more about my future, I'm back to this architecture thing. I wanted to be an architect when I was a little kid. My dream was to build a round house with a spiral staircase going up the middle. I wasn't sure that this was the right direction for me, so I didn't go to U of Cincinnati for undergrad (#1 in the country at that time) and I didn't use my preferred admission to Michigan's program. Now here I am 5 years later thinking "damn, shoulda done that." But shoulda woulda coulda, I had to explore my options.
I am lucky in this sense, which Erin pointed out to me yesterday. Most people are very limited in what they can do because they are either math/science people or humanities people. I have never been one of those people, so it's been very difficult to narrow down my options. While I often drag myself in the wrong direction because of this, it's a good problem to have. Having a world of opportunity isn't such a bad thing.
On another note, I'm realizing that people misunderstand me for a number of reasons. Erin politely pointed these out too. I am often quiet and I have trouble jumping in conversations. When I do jump in, it's often a sort of random non sequitur, and people are left thinking "that was weird." I am also not very forthcoming with information, partly because I feel like I have to talk really fast and to the point to get people to listen. Also partly because I don't think people really care and I'm not incredibly proud/comfortable with what I am doing at the moment. This often makes me come off as a know-it-all. This is all magnified around certain personality types.
Erin says that in the context of my family, I make sense. Unfortunately, not everyone knows my family.
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Yay, you're back!
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