<p>Alright, I’ll be honest. I’ve put off college, because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I wasn’t even sure if college was for me. I grew up in a small rural town and had a humble upbringing. I carried about a C/C+ GPA which was enough to keep me out of trouble and allow me to play sports. After having several years to reflect about potential life paths, college has once again been pushed to the forefront.</p>
<p>My biggest issue with the education I received as a youth was that everything was “taught to the test.” There was almost no interaction with the instructors and in most situations asking questions was nothing more than a nuisance, because they had instructional guidelines they had to meet within a certain time frame. If at all possible, I REALLY do not want to experience this in college. I would like to be somewhere that encourages cooperation and group learning. A school that encourages intellectual debate and questioning of the subject matter. The issue is that it has to be somewhere that would accept someone with a sketchy gpa. I know I could have done WAY better in school. In fact, most of the time I’d sleep through the classes and just take the tests. That was if I even bothered to show up. I just didn’t feel like I was learning anything. Everything was just fact(s) that had no tangible tie to the real world.</p>
<p>Anyway, I know at some point potential majors are going to be asked. At this point I think that something like Cognitive Science would be my best bet. It’s very interdisciplinary and encompasses several areas that have always fascinated me. There are several different directions I could take with that major. I know Michigan State also has a masters program for what they call “Serious Gaming.” Which appears to be a platform where education and entertainment merge. That sounds like potentially a rewarding and fun job to hold. I’m not sure what kind of market exists for that kind of thing…</p>
<p>So basically… I’m looking for a liberal arts school in a rural/suburban area, with blurred demographics/cliques, with more intellectual/right brained students, and a school that is more of an open forum instead of just useless data that you have to memorize. Also, I do not know if psychometric data is relevant here, but I’m an INTP on the MBTI. Just fyi.</p>