Masters Life: Reflections
Studying Literature is something that I have wanted to do since I was in high school. Back in year 12 though, the ‘responsible’ part of me followed my parents’ instruction to study a Maths class so that I had a subject that would help me get into university. I gave up my Literature class and instead took on a Maths Methods class in its place. For that whole final year of school, I was full of envy as my friends discussed what they were studying in their Literature class, while I struggled my way through Methods, fighting to understand a course that wasn’t what I wanted to be doing. Despite my abysmal performance in that class (Math really wasn’t my forte and the only thing I seemed to genuinely understand was statistics), my parents were right about one thing – that class did come in useful. In my undergrad degree at university, I studied Psychology and Creative Writing and that Psychology degree just happened to require proficiency in statistics – which as we know thanks to that Math class, I was quite good at.
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