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You know, working on my psychobiology comprehensive exam kind of makes me wish I could have done Honors. Yeah, I know at this time of year, course majors are supposed to be glad they're not doing honors. But I'm realizing "Hmm, I really am enjoying putting things that I understand from a few different classes together into a coherent whole. It would be cool to actually be able to talk about what I know with an Honors examiner..."

Of course, considering how much I've had to do the past few weeks with just what I have, I may have also gone somewhat insane. Or, somewhat more importantly, I may not have had any time to figure out stuff for next year. And I guess there would have been other downsides as far as courses I would have had to miss out on taking. But it does still seem like I'm missing out on something exciting...

(For those of you who don't know, I was originally signed up for Honors, and really wanted to do it, but the reason I couldn't was basically because I realized too late that I really didn't like biology, which explained why I couldn't find a research project that I liked in the bio department. Well, I was thinking the chicken head thing could be turned into an Honors project, but I'm actually kind of glad I didn't try to extend that. Now if I had realized it in time, I probably would have done research with Allen Schneider, which could have been fun. But ah well...at least I think I'm on the right track now...)

Oh and while I'm posting...SWIL remembrances were fun, and I definitely enjoyed my own (as well as Jon's and Viva's, and some others also). But I will say that I liked reliving the more recent memories (ie. what Arthur and Jonathan said) more than thinking about freshman year. Probably not surprising...but those things couldn't exactly be left out... ;) I did also have some suggestions for things that could be improved at Remembrances in the future, which I posted in a comment in crystalpyramid's LJ, but overall, it was still good...

Edit: You know, though, now I'm going to be more self-conscious than I already was about the whole "seeing both sides of everything" thing. I mean, I already knew I did that, but now it seems like every time I do it (like, say, in this post...), I'm thinking about it afterwards, that "Hmm, people are going to notice that, and it's really unusual. Maybe I shouldn't do that." The thing is, I know it's not actually a bad thing, and I don't think there's any way I could stop myself from doing it if I could, and I wouldn't want to stop myself from doing it anyway, because it is kind of cool. But ah, silly reflexive responses...

And another edit: Now that I think about it more, maybe what I'm actually liking is the fact that developmental bio (which is the part I'm working on now) actually makes a lot more sense now than it did two years ago. Because I wasn't necesarily having fun doing the first essay... Of course, the fact that Scott Gilbert probably wrote the question I'm looking at now probably also contributes to the fact that it makes you think in interesting ways... But I also haven't started actually writing it yet. Hmm, maybe I should get back to actually doing the work now, though, before I'm really too tired...

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So now we've made you even *more* indecisive about being indecisive?