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		<title>By: wyterabbit</title>
		<link>http://www.rowyn.com/2006/03/bad-mood-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-394</link>
		<dc:creator>wyterabbit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>See, the problem is that I don&#039;t know what I *want.*  I don&#039;t know what my passion is, if I even have one.  That&#039;s what&#039;s getting in my way far more than worries about majors or careers.  Although you&#039;re point about interdisciplinary/IDM is a good one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See, the problem is that I don&#8217;t know what I *want.*  I don&#8217;t know what my passion is, if I even have one.  That&#8217;s what&#8217;s getting in my way far more than worries about majors or careers.  Although you&#8217;re point about interdisciplinary/IDM is a good one.</p>
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		<title>By: troglodyteking</title>
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		<dc:creator>troglodyteking</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can definitely sympathize.  I think I do similar things with anger and other similar negative emotions.  Fortunately(/unfortunately?) I tend to fairly rarely have them, so this is not such a big problem for me.  Or maybe it is more that I rarely have them particularly strong, so if it is strong I get really miserable and depressive (usually more about the world/the-state-of-things-now than myself, but frequently also about what actions I should have taken that I did not, etc.), but most of the time I just stuff it down and keep on with life.  This seems pretty effective most of the time, but I think in the long run it is not doing me much good, because it means that I do not really communicate with people.  I think that is my biggest problem along these lines - the lack of communication of my frustration.  I just take the negative emotions and analyze them to death rather than letting myself &lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;express&lt;/i&gt; them.  It is nice in that I do not blow up at people, but sometimes I think a good blowing-up, if handled maturely, makes a relationship (whether it be a &#039;Relationship&#039; or just a more broad understanding of the term) stronger when resolved.  Rather than blowing apart relationships, I just manage to bottle everything up so that they either just slowly decay to nothing much, or never really develop.

As for knowing what you are doing with yourself . . . not much I have to offer you there.  However, I think the best attitude (usually I would just say this is just my attitude, but increasingly I think it is a pretty generalizable principle) is to just study what you &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; and figure out the career/post-collegiate-stuff later.  I would say just follow your passion and either 1) see if you can try to mold it into more or less one predefined discipline (regardless of whether it is &#039;practical&#039; or &#039;marketable&#039;) or 2) see if you can take all the disparate pieces and try to scrape together some sort of interdisciplinary or individually designed major.

Realistically, unless you do something like engineering, hard science, or computer science your major is probably not really going to directly lead into any one career.  I think increasingly people get a degree and then find a career and get trained in that career after college - obviously using the college experience as a resource (knowing how to write, communicate, think analytically, problem solve, etc.) but probably not directly applicably so.  Secondary education in the United States, especially at the high-prestige level of Stanford, is a lot more about well-rounded education and less about job training than most of the rest of the world.  The job market knows this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can definitely sympathize.  I think I do similar things with anger and other similar negative emotions.  Fortunately(/unfortunately?) I tend to fairly rarely have them, so this is not such a big problem for me.  Or maybe it is more that I rarely have them particularly strong, so if it is strong I get really miserable and depressive (usually more about the world/the-state-of-things-now than myself, but frequently also about what actions I should have taken that I did not, etc.), but most of the time I just stuff it down and keep on with life.  This seems pretty effective most of the time, but I think in the long run it is not doing me much good, because it means that I do not really communicate with people.  I think that is my biggest problem along these lines &#8211; the lack of communication of my frustration.  I just take the negative emotions and analyze them to death rather than letting myself <i>feel</i> and <i>express</i> them.  It is nice in that I do not blow up at people, but sometimes I think a good blowing-up, if handled maturely, makes a relationship (whether it be a &#8216;Relationship&#8217; or just a more broad understanding of the term) stronger when resolved.  Rather than blowing apart relationships, I just manage to bottle everything up so that they either just slowly decay to nothing much, or never really develop.</p>
<p>As for knowing what you are doing with yourself . . . not much I have to offer you there.  However, I think the best attitude (usually I would just say this is just my attitude, but increasingly I think it is a pretty generalizable principle) is to just study what you <i>want</i> and figure out the career/post-collegiate-stuff later.  I would say just follow your passion and either 1) see if you can try to mold it into more or less one predefined discipline (regardless of whether it is &#8216;practical&#8217; or &#8216;marketable&#8217;) or 2) see if you can take all the disparate pieces and try to scrape together some sort of interdisciplinary or individually designed major.</p>
<p>Realistically, unless you do something like engineering, hard science, or computer science your major is probably not really going to directly lead into any one career.  I think increasingly people get a degree and then find a career and get trained in that career after college &#8211; obviously using the college experience as a resource (knowing how to write, communicate, think analytically, problem solve, etc.) but probably not directly applicably so.  Secondary education in the United States, especially at the high-prestige level of Stanford, is a lot more about well-rounded education and less about job training than most of the rest of the world.  The job market knows this.</p>
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		<title>By: qcvar</title>
		<link>http://www.rowyn.com/2006/03/bad-mood-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-392</link>
		<dc:creator>qcvar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmm... though I suppose I do very rarely get angry, and this quickly subsides to annoyance...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm&#8230; though I suppose I do very rarely get angry, and this quickly subsides to annoyance&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: qcvar</title>
		<link>http://www.rowyn.com/2006/03/bad-mood-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-391</link>
		<dc:creator>qcvar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really appreciate this post; it lets me somewhat experience again what anger is like and what results from it through your description.  I lost the ability to be angry a few years ago, and the most I can become is slightly annoyed.  Thanks for this opportunity.

Anyway, it is true that it is a Friday, and there is the weekend to look forward to to chew over things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really appreciate this post; it lets me somewhat experience again what anger is like and what results from it through your description.  I lost the ability to be angry a few years ago, and the most I can become is slightly annoyed.  Thanks for this opportunity.</p>
<p>Anyway, it is true that it is a Friday, and there is the weekend to look forward to to chew over things.</p>
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