May 15, 2012 08:00
Sometimes I wish I was a cool person, like someone who loved comics or who could play video games and get into the top 20%. I wish I had some kind of secret ability that nobody knew about, that you could tell your friends about a year after meeting them and have them say "omg I didn't know you could do that that's so cool". Or maybe just an area of academic interest - like a secret scholar in cold war history, or a professional knowledge of tolstoy. It disturbs me to think that if anybody had asked me what I would have liked to study had I not been charmed away by the practicality and financial potential of a law degree, I have no answer. It would pretty much have been throw the dice and pick the first one.