wait wait wait
One of those group exercises was inflicted in us during class today. You know, "take this quiz and then we'll split you up into groups and talk about a semi-arbitrary way to split hairs when describing personality types." It sounded an awful lot like the Myers-Brigg exercise we had at the beginning of vet school. Maybe doing a full Myers-Brigg analysis works better (or maybe not...thanks Wikipedia!) than the truncated versions you find on Grad School Orientation Day, but it always puts me in mind of reading the horoscope: omg my horoscope describes me so perfectly...and so do the other eleven!
(Unless it's the Onion's horoscopes...)
The questions on the quiz were not promising. All of them could have been answered by "It depends". And the arbitrary groups were maybe a tad arbitrary. However, it turned into a decent exercise nonetheless. Four groups, delineated by color, roughly broke down into:
1. The talkative people who want people to be nice and get along and have a good time, and are we all on the same page?
2. The pragmatic people who just want to get it done and get it done right. Also, punctuality is important.
3. The academic-minded who will pore over the details, are a little baffled by these emotions that other people make such a big deal out of, and want to think the problem through.
4. The energetic creative types who will move on a problem immediately, try out new things, and have no concept of punctuality (luckily they tend to get things done without it). Are we done yet?
I liked the breakdown, surprisingly, despite past experiences with MB. I fell into the first and last categories most, which explains why my sister and I operate on such drastically different measures when it comes to farming.
Meanwhile, the long wait continues. I figure all bets are off now, limbo is now installed for the month of October and anyway, in two weeks it will be time to start looking at internships for next year.
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