1) Got a lot of this from aunts and uncles yesterday. It doesn't matter what I'll be doing in a year. I'm not looking for a career, just a job. The goal is to get to the point of self-sufficiency, then worry about what I'm actually going to do with myself.
2) This question will only be meaningful in hindsight. I don't know what I'll write during my life. I like to imagine that my best work is something I'll dream up thirty or forty years in the future.
3) PC was not the right choice for me, but it certainly wasn't the worst choice. I'm cynical about education, because I hit a point in junior year where I felt I'd gotten as much out of it as I was going to, and since then I've been bitterly going through the motions, but I think I'd have reached that point no matter where I went. My social life does not make up for this, either: I have like eight or nine friends, and we never do anything but talk shit about each other behind each other's backs. But again, I doubt this would have been much better anywhere else. It's more down to me than PC. Whether it will all have been worth it, again, can only be evaluated in hindsight.
4) Scientific literacy isn't just important for scientists; that's precisely my point. In any case, it's partly because my interest in the issue didn't even take off until well into college, but even so I don't think I'm cut out for a career in the sciences. I'm just a fan.
5) The term doesn't mean much to me. Whatever sounds interesting to me, I am willing to read, and I enjoy what I enjoy, regardless of its designation in terms of genre or whatever. These categorizations are useful for the publishing industry, and bookstores, and finding new authors you've never heard of, but as a reader, when you take the designation to heart, you've gone amiss. Good writing is good writing and bad writing is bad writing. Period.
2) This question will only be meaningful in hindsight. I don't know what I'll write during my life. I like to imagine that my best work is something I'll dream up thirty or forty years in the future.
3) PC was not the right choice for me, but it certainly wasn't the worst choice. I'm cynical about education, because I hit a point in junior year where I felt I'd gotten as much out of it as I was going to, and since then I've been bitterly going through the motions, but I think I'd have reached that point no matter where I went. My social life does not make up for this, either: I have like eight or nine friends, and we never do anything but talk shit about each other behind each other's backs. But again, I doubt this would have been much better anywhere else. It's more down to me than PC. Whether it will all have been worth it, again, can only be evaluated in hindsight.
4) Scientific literacy isn't just important for scientists; that's precisely my point. In any case, it's partly because my interest in the issue didn't even take off until well into college, but even so I don't think I'm cut out for a career in the sciences. I'm just a fan.
5) The term doesn't mean much to me. Whatever sounds interesting to me, I am willing to read, and I enjoy what I enjoy, regardless of its designation in terms of genre or whatever. These categorizations are useful for the publishing industry, and bookstores, and finding new authors you've never heard of, but as a reader, when you take the designation to heart, you've gone amiss. Good writing is good writing and bad writing is bad writing. Period.
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