Born engineer, or engineered to be ?

I wasted 5 minutes on a personality test on "perfect majors". This sure is a silly excercise at this stage of my life-long education ... I was nontheless amused to see that Engineering topped my list with quite a margin. Huh, is this measuring the natural tendency, or the current skill and mind shaped by training?

At least I can congratulate myself either on having chosen well, or been converted well. Now let me get back to some real engineering work -- coding.

Here is the result, btw.

Engineering 92% Chemistry 83% Psychology 83% Philosophy 75% English 75% Mathematics 75% Biology 75% Linguistics 67% Sociology 50% Dance 42% Anthropology 42% Journalism 25% Art 17% Theater 17% What is your Perfect Major?

A Ballet Reflection

Remember the recreational ballet teacher told the class that ballet is the art of taking great efforts for perfection but making the elegance look effortless (an unauthorized rephrase of the actual saying). Of course I am in the place of appreciating this rather than excuting it in ballet ... but doens't it hold true in a broader sense than ballet?

A few examples:

• We enjoy a lively technical seminar topped with impressive demos, oblivious of the sleepless nights spent designing and implementing them.
• We praise the cozy, pretty, yet utilitarian setup at friends' homes, ignoring the accumulated amount of time they spent brewing inpirations, searching and performing little adjustments.
  
• We indulge in the delicacy from a friend's kitchen, putting aside all the trial-and-error and meticulous study they did on the recipe.
• ... ...

We the spectators appreciate beauty and creativity, small or large; we the actors strive for the effortless display in this result-driven world. As actors we enjoy far more than the results, made to stay are knowledge, wisdom and moments of revealation. Nonetheless as actors we need communication, understanding and unwavering support during all the efforts that make these happen. This is what friends and family are for, and this is we shall provide for them as well.