Saturday, August 1, 2009

I think I've found my calling.

Today, I attended Monash University's open day with the desperate hope that they would give me direction and tell me what to do with my life, as I am at a loss. It's not that I'm not passionate about anything- the problem is that I am enthusiastic about too many studies, most of which I am ill-equipped to excel at due to an affliction called stupidity. Despite my attempts to sneakily substitute attitude for aptitude, at some point I have to admit that success in any remotely interesting field is utterly implausible. But, that did not stop me from being overly excitable today as I frolicked around, grabbing booklets and chatting to university nerds, many of which, I noted with sadness, are far nerdier than me.

I spent four hours investigating prospective tertiary education. I managed to garner three promotional bags full of informational pamphlets. I was informed about mathematical science (nobody has ever thought to point out its existence to me until now) and attentively sat through some woman talking about it for forty minutes. And once she was done I approached her, armed with ill thought out questions. I waited for almost an hour to talk to some physics guy, who managed to almost scare me off science in under ten minutes. But, he did not put me off it completely, because I had firmly decided that I want to do a double degree in law and science, despite the prohibitive ENTER score and the cost of completing the course.

I was so excited after finding out about all of these wonderful things I could study one day, to the point where I was wringing my hands- something that I only do in situations of extreme excitement. It was more exciting than being in a shoe store with a massive sale section of totally hot shoes- and that is not something that I would say lightly.

With renewed ambition, I was ready to return home, with a brief detour to the chocolate demonstration. And it was there that I found my calling: eating chocolate. Fap fap fap! Screw learning, chocolate is so much more exciting.

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