I wish questions came with a "permission to ramble" addendum
I generally try not to ramble, because I don't want to irritate people. But that doesn't mean I don't want to. This is especially an issue now that everyone's questions of choice are "what colleges are you applying to?" and "what's your major going to be?" I could discuss the former for hours, but really most people don't even want the full list.
The latter I'd ramble on a bit less, but still. People don't want to hear "at Pomona I would major in public policy analysis with a focus in psychology or sociology; if I go to Yale I want social/personality psychology or sociology, and I'll try to become a journalism scholar; and Occidental there are a few possibilities but critical theory and social justice will probably win out; and anywhere else it would probably be a double major in something social sciency like psychology or sociology and something writing-related like journalism or creative writing. I'd probably want a creative writing major anyway." Much less an explanation of the interdisciplinary majors and what a journalism scholar is and the classes that look interesting and so on. People want a clear, concise answer.
Except people like me, who enjoy listening to rambles on the matter as much as I enjoy doing the rambles.