Left or Right?

And for this week in Inquiry class one group is doing a presentation on personalities. Now this is definitely an interesting and relatable topic for everyone in class. I’m excited for their presentation tomorrow. With such an interesting topic, they have to have something fun up their sleeves. I hope these guys can live up to the expectations they just set for themselves. But enough about the future and my excitement/anticipation; let me now discuss the articles they had us read.

First the guys had us start off with a personality test. I love doing surveys that can tell me something about myself. I’m amused about how accurate and/or how far off they are. But I’m getting off topic here, back to discussing the survey. The group apologized for the length of the assignment right off the bat, which got my a bit nervous. I was expecting 100s of questions with multiple parts to be answered, but it wasn’t that bad. It was a little lengthy (and I’m making a stretch here by saying this). It only required about 5-10 minutes of my free time. I was able to complete it and get my results while waiting to register for my courses next semester (which took 45 minutes, so I had PLENTY of time).  Some questions I had to reread to make sure I understood what they were asking (and it was 6am and I didn’t even have my morning cup of joe yet). The results were kind of eh, a bit on the dull side, but it has nothing to do with the group’s effort. Overall, it was a fun way to start off this interesting topic.

Next they had us read two articles from the same website: one about the left side of the brain and one about the right. It was an easy to read, interesting article about the different hemispheres of the brain. A basic overview of the articles is they explained what a dominant left or right brained person likes, how they act, etc. and careers they tend to have (of course there are always exceptions to these rules).

Out of curiosity I tried to decide which I was more like and could not make up my mind to save my life. Both sides had characteristics like me and some that were the complete opposite of me. After long, careful consideration I would have to say that I think I’m most likely a right-brained kind of gal. I like art, I’m decent at sports, I prefer to study with noise, and I love cats. There are a few left brain qualities that fit me: liking classical music, likes tracing/copying and filling in details of pictures, etc. I guess I’m about a 60-40% split between the two. If you want to find out if you’re a left brained person click here, and for the right side: scroll to the bottom of the article and click on the bottom link right.

I’m very excited for this presentation tomorrow. I was considering skipping all of my classes tomorrow because it’s my birthday and my first class is cancelled, but I used my better judgment and decided that I have too many important things to do in my other classes to skip. This presentation tomorrow will hopefully make my birthday a bit more fun *keeping my fingers crossed*.