Article for 2013 Feb 05

2013

2013 Feb

Feb 05 Tue

I spoke to the Head of Sixth Form today about my worries regarding the epic battle in my brain between Engineering and Classics. My head says Engineering; my heart says Classics; my head says listen to your heart; my heart says what does it know it’s just a blood-pumping organ that has been forced to work faster because of my head; my head says oh it’s my fault now is it? it is! it is!; my heart says it didn’t mean that; my head says learn to use punctuation properly; my heart says beat to your own rhythm, or you’ll be forever out of sync.

The Head of Sixth Form says I’ve made progress.

He says it’s not just teaching and museum curating that involve classicky skills. He says archiving, journal editing, and copywriting are areas easily accessible to a Classics graduate. He says it’s fine for me to not participate in Chemistry Club or the Physics Society, and he says it’s fine for me to change my enrichment option from Engineering Extension to Ancient Greek.

And I say... I say, I was too overcome overwhelmed and overjoyed to say anything.