Snickie
also not a cat
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2016
- Messages
- 204
- MBTI Type
- InTP
- Enneagram
- 594
- Instinctual Variant
- sp
I don't think N types can't have such hobbies or that only Se types can do crochet/drawing. Typology isn't really about hobbies but about your way of thinking. You liking to play devil's advocate is far more relevant to that, for example.
You're right, of course.
You can't expect people to know your type right away from a few posts.
Of course not. And I've seen the Mistyped Members thread here so I know it's not uncommon at all. I might be gripping just a little though because it's the end of the semester and my procrastination this year is worse than it's ever been.
Glad this type seems to work for you then. Sure enjoy the reading and uhh, yeah the essays too
Out of curiosity, why do you hate doing research papers? I remember I hated the step of figuring out and designing the experiment but I was fine with executing the experiment and then writing it all down was fine too.
This paper is for music history, so it's not a "design an experiment, do experiment, write about results" paper, which would probably be better even though every year in elementary school I procrastinated so hard on science fair projects lolol.
This is supposed to be a ten-page paper on influences on Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony and how self expressionism manifested in it, in Chicago style. Last year I was in Advanced Analysis (a music theory class) and we spent a large chunk of time studying the first movement and how each element represented a certain part of his identity (Tchaikovsky was homosexual) - the conflict between F minor and E major in the beginning (f minor being who he was to be to be acceptable in society, E major being his forbidden homosexuality), the diminished seventh structure of the large scale tonal layout (associated with hell), the way the "fate" horn motive keeps interrupting to remind him that life isn't rosy (in opera at least, brass is associated with death), etc etc. I picked the topic for the paper based on my preexisting notes, trying to somehow reduce my workload. I just needed 8 credible sources to back up my notes and writing, create a detailed outline, and actually write the darnn paper.
My hurdle is that I don't particularly like reading that kind of material, especially primary source material because the language is so plodding and pedantic and if Music History 1 taught me only one thing, it's that I'm terrible at inferring things from the source text (I've gotten better). I also misplaced my notes from last year so now I can't directly reference them.
The other hurdle is, as mentioned before, procrastination. I do most of my work at the last minute. I almost said my best work, but it could've been a lot better had I put in more effort early on. That's the case with most of my classes, really. Problem is the 'last minute with still time to succeed' keeps getting pushed to earlier and earlier as the projects grow longer and longer, and by the time I realize that point has passed,... well lately it's turned into shutdown mode. Sometimes Pi rouses shadow Te and they come up with a quota of what I'm should accomplish each day in order to have a hope of finishing, but I have a terrible time adhering to such things when there's no immediate measure of accountability other than an index card taped to a page in my planner.
Anyway, I'm a bit sidetracked now. I wrote a haiku once about my feelings toward essays in freshman year. Here it is:
I don't like to write
Long essays on things they know.
I'd much rather sleep.
On that note, I'm going to exile myself to the library now.