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ironrat said a month ago: "Two things that MIT taught me about myself while I was there are that 1) I am not a discoverer (which is to say, scientist) and I am not a creator (which is to say, engineer)." I think there's an implied 2 there, but I didn't post this to pick on his grammar.
Every so often, I encounter something that is so right, so perfect, that I keep coming back to it. Rarely, it's art, or music, or poetry (Some of you may remember being dragged by Soprafina to stare at the illegible text that I finally bought. Amusingly, none of you seem to remember my favorite poetry excerpt, except maybe forjadia, who has no idea why I'm bringing it up). Sometimes it's a thought, which this one is.
I'm not a scientist. I figured that out partway through grad school, but I just thought that it was because I was junk at it. It's not that I'm a bad scientist, it's that I wasn't ever that character class at all, but just didn't realize it. I'm an engineer. I want to create things. I want to create worlds and NPCs and javascript bus maps and sweaters and cassoulet and wikis and perl scripts that run poetry puzzles and photomorphs of people I know...
I'm not just a failed scientist, or a goof with too much spare time on her hands. I actually have a label!
This pleases me very much.
ironrat said a month ago: "Two things that MIT taught me about myself while I was there are that 1) I am not a discoverer (which is to say, scientist) and I am not a creator (which is to say, engineer)." I think there's an implied 2 there, but I didn't post this to pick on his grammar.Every so often, I encounter something that is so right, so perfect, that I keep coming back to it. Rarely, it's art, or music, or poetry (Some of you may remember being dragged by Soprafina to stare at the illegible text that I finally bought. Amusingly, none of you seem to remember my favorite poetry excerpt, except maybe for
jadia, who has no idea why I'm bringing it up). Sometimes it's a thought, which this one is.I'm not a scientist. I figured that out partway through grad school, but I just thought that it was because I was junk at it. It's not that I'm a bad scientist, it's that I wasn't ever that character class at all, but just didn't realize it. I'm an engineer. I want to create things. I want to create worlds and NPCs and javascript bus maps and sweaters and cassoulet and wikis and perl scripts that run poetry puzzles and photomorphs of people I know...
I'm not just a failed scientist, or a goof with too much spare time on her hands. I actually have a label!
This pleases me very much.
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Date: 2006-09-22 04:41 pm (UTC)I am a Connector.
(Yes, I realize most people would call me a Nurturer, but I think that is only part of it.)
I think in analogies. I connect new ideas to old ideas. I connect people to each other. I connect data to people who need them. I weave webs of obligations between people. (I strain to fit feeding people into this allegory, but it's a means to an end. The feeding is what lures them in; the connecting to them is the point.)