Thu 2 Feb 2006
Karen has her results from this quiz posted on her site. It tells you what your ideal major should be. I majored in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing, because that’s what appealed to me, and that’s what I got good grades in in high school. However, all the personality or career tests we took in high school placed Business in the #1 spot for what I was best suited toward. I think I’m too lazy to run my own business. So out of curiosity, I took the quiz. After I answered a series of questions, it asked me for a tie-breaker. Do I enjoy thinking about what life and the universe has in store for me, or do I find it more important to express myself to others through notes and letters? Argh. I seriously sat there for minutes. They are equally important. Of course this would be the tiebreaker. I am truly tied on these things. But in the end, I clicked on the life thing. No reason. One is what I think a lot right now, the other is how I express what I think. Anyway, the results are:
You scored as Philosophy.
You should be a Philosophy major! Like the Philosopher, you are contemplative and you enjoy thinking about the purpose for humanity’s existence.
Philosophy 100%
Journalism 100%
Mathematics 92%
Psychology 83%
Art 82%
Linguistics 75%
English 67%
Theater 67%
Engineering 67%
Biology 42%
Dance 42%
Anthropology 33%
Sociology 33%
Chemistry 8%
Hmm. Is this why I really wasn’t interested in English Lit while I was majoring in it, and therefore didn’t do all that well in my core classes? The results are a bit surprising. Or maybe it’s just my present mood.
I just looked at my results list again. Haha, I am the Asian parent’s worst nightmare. All non-lucrative things. I should be into chem and bio and engineering and become a doctor or lawyer. And what’s up with that mathematics thing?!
I need to change my major now! I would have never imagined myself to be a journalist! Um…
I think everybody gets “journalism.” Karen’s #1 was journalism, too. Hmm.
Not me, I got Philosophy!
oh, then the philosophy must be a genetic thing.
Hmm. Maybe I shouldn’t’a been English/chemistry in college.
Mathematics 100%
Philosophy 92%
Biology 83%
* * *
Chemistry 33%
English 33%
I wonder if we’ve changed since college days, i.e. if we had taken this quiz at age 17, would it show that the major we chose was right for us at the time? Or maybe the fact that we had toiled thru a major means that we no longer have interest in that major. Negative memory association and all.