college dilemma...

Once in a high school student's life comes a time where he/she has to choose what course to take during college. Being a fourth year high school student, I am currently experiencing such dilemma.

A student prefers one of the two fields: analysis or memorization. Or others could be neither, or both. As for me, I prefer analysis because I hate memorizing. Memorization for me is just storing temporary data in the brain, but analysis is a permanent understanding of a subject.

Back to the topic, I can choose a course that is more on analysis. But I can't figure out the profession that will suit me after I graduate. Ergo, I have to choose a course that offers me a suitable occupation. I want to have a well-paying job that is enjoyable. I could take up BS Computer Science and be a computer programmer since I enjoy being in front of a PC monitor like my friends. But I have to look at the cons, just to weigh things out. As what the picture in my blog shows, I am wearing eye glasses. But what is now obvious there is the grades of the lenses. Honestly, they are very high. Going back to being a computer programmer, I have to be face a computer monitor for a long time in order to work. My concern is my precious blurred vision, and I mean precious. I know that this is what I have, I have to make the most out of it. Not just wasting it all away facing a computer monitor.

As we were educated with the subject of chemistry, I found it very intersting. I found it very easy to learn when you get the hang of it. Though the terminologies are very difficult, they were easy to place in my mind. It is because they can be remembered with analysis. For example (just an easy one), boiling point is the temperature at which a liquid starts to boil. It can be analyzed like this: the temperature where a liquid starts to boil is boiling point. It pretty much easier to remember than: ang epiko ng Ilocos ay ang Biag ni Lam-ang. You have to memorize that. Though it has no relevance to me at all, I have to memorize that though I know in a couple of years, no body in the batch would remember that (no offense but I just found that irrelevant in my life).

With that ease with studying about chemistry, I could choose BS Chemical Engineering as a course in college. But, (there's that but again) I don't know what kind of job I would have if I pursue the course. As what my sister tells me, "tighimo ra ka ug sabon". I know that she is justing joking to make me a little confused. But what can I do? I am unfamiliar with the professions the course would let me. I could work at MEPZ. But I don't want to. I am asthmatic too. The fumes that I would breathe in if I become a chemical engineer could cause my death. I will not be a chemist or anything that involves chemical reactions that creates fumes.

My God! I cannot choose courses that will harm my health.