Dammit man, I'm a geek, not a nerd.

[sea0tter12]

CIVILIAN LIFE:

Q1. Name: Mel

Q2. How did you find out about Elite of the Fleet? From watching kittehkat and rotae send cryptic messages to each other on Twitter.

Q3. When did you first become interested in Star Trek? I can't remember a time when Star Trek wasn't a part of my life. I grew up watching TOS reruns and the original movies with my dad, and I

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Re: Tactical: USS Exeter

[kittehkat]

(ALSO NOTE THAT I TALK A LOT. OKAY, GREAT.)

Just looking at your weaknesses, I see that I pulled a premptive strike on your hating display of emotion. Awesome. Haha. Also, idk if anything could be more true: I overthink and overanalyze things. Yes, times a million. Good and bad. But most importantly, true. :)

I knew that would be your fear, because you wear it on your sleeve, and I think you've talked about it anyway. But that's the only part that I am really confused with. What is it you fear? Not having anyone else? Being left to your own thoughts? Missing someone to talk things out with? Feeling like there's nothing else to explore because you can only find things out about yourself for so long? I wonder what the motivation is to this, if there's something else. Like, if we boiled it down, what would be the clinical note on it? I can't read through it, and can't tell what'd be scariest for you.
We both set the application down in the same place for a night of thought on it. The difference is, your explanation is coherent and mine's like DUDE JUST WTF HOW CAN YOU NOT BELIEVE IN THIS like I was drugged by the UFP to say what they want and it's really great drugs and they promised me more if I talked about it. lolol Your answer is svelte and sexay. ;)

I think your answer to 19 conveys a different Mel than the rest of the application on the surface. Yes, you CAN be extroverted, but no, you don't prefer it, or at least not to a group of people. You love to relate to people, but only the ones you care about. So while you technically are extroverted in that sense, I think it's a very closed off way that technically qualified you for this answer.

Let me say that it gets harder the more you know someone, to Enlist them. I DO see Operations (you're a problem solver, you're crafty in both sense of the word, your irl job reflects everything about it) as well as Tactical (great leadership skills, fair, well-roundedness, manipulative), and, heck, even Medical (you're a caretaker, for shizzles, and super empathetic), I just wouldn't say they're your best fit.

Sorry to really leave it up the air, friend, but I'm going to recommend you for Exploratory Sciences track. I can see you fitting there well, particularly in an advancing a new field. You'll be like the Google of Science -- investigating shit before we even realize we need to, coming up with solutions for problems just on the tip of someone's tongue, and packaging it in such a way that we could never doubt our need and desire for your answers and tactful diplomacy.

Re: Tactical: USS Exeter

[sea0tter12]

That's a hard thing to answer -- I'm not sure why I don't like being alone. But I do know that when Shane has to go to his mom and dad's without me, I become very unhappy quickly. When I lived alone for the first six months after college, I would go whole weekends without hearing my own voice because I didn't talk to anyone. I realized in that time that I hadn't physically touched anyone in a couple months -- no hugs, nothing. And I'm not OK with that -- I crave physical contact. I get depressed when I don't have it.

I also think that when I stay in my head too long, I start to overthink everything -- and having someone that I am comfortable enough with to talk about what's inside my head is important to my mental health.

That's probably not any more of an explanation than what I wrote, though, about why I wouldn't want to be alone in the world :)

And yes, it gets harder the more you know someone. :)

THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZINGLY LONG VOTE!!! I <3 YOU!!!