The Beauty in the Brain

     After a year or two of internal conflict due to my inability to be decisive in regard to my future profession, I have finally settled on a profession that I am completely satisfied with. For years, I played with the idea of being a writer. I decided to take a creative writing class, which convinced me that I did NOT want to be a writer. Sure, I enjoyed the class, but the career was not for me. Next, came being a lawyer. This idea was my goal for quite a while until I realized that lawyers are generally quite boring people that have to deal with people and their greed day in and day out. That idea was shoved out along with writing. Next, came the dream of being a classical violinist. I refuse to even go in to this, but let's just say that I got out of that one as well. Then there was philosophy. What a wonderful dream it was, I do believe it was the one that I loved the most out of all the aforementioned careers. I was completely prepared to pursue my Ph.D and become a professor of philosophy at some renowned university. However, that dream came crashing down when I realized the limited amount of positions in the workforce for a philosophy major.

    I arrived at cognitive science by accident, to be honest. I was browsing the majors offered by a few Ivy League colleges (and that is another dream in itself!) and I stumbled upon cognitive science. I am looking for a career that has an ever-expanding hiring rate, and includes the fields that I have interest in. I am pleased to say that cognitive science has all of this. With a degree in cogsci, I can become a research analyst, or even lead research projects myself. I look forward to discovering new things about the brain in my studies. I love the thought of thought. It is an enigma to me, a beauty that can only be discovered with the help of science. Human thought is the result of a chemical process that is beautiful in itself.