I sometimes look back and think maybe I should have chosen the other way. I KNOW! It was me who made the choice, and I have no complaint about the way I am on right now.

In fact, from the first moment, or even before that, I knew that I would be sorry for the other way, whatever I’d chosen.

OK, some of you might think that “the other way” was staying at S* company, and “the way I am on” is graduate course. WRONG and right in part. No hard feelings, but I’ve never regreted leaving S* company. (yeah..I am little bit sorry whenever I have to pay my bills)

Those “ways” are Computer Science vs. Cognitive Science that I wanted to study in the graduate school. (to be fair, I did want to study business or marketing specifically, but I somehow thought that I would get a chance for them later in my life.) Well, as I often write in my essays for the CS jobs, computers have been a part of my life since I was a little boy. In college, even though I could freely chosen my major among 4 different majors, I did not hesitate to choose CS as my major.

Cognitive Science. About two years ago, taking the first Cognitive Science course at undergraduate school, I realised that my ultimate interst lies in the human. My huge interst in the Psycology was due to the fact that I could understand HUMAN, you and me. Cognitive science had different way to get to the same goal. It tries to understand the mechanisms of how we think or feel. I just LOVE this subject.

Anyway, last year, I had to make a very tough choice, but I made it. CS was again my major in graduate school. As I thought it would be, now I think about what it would be like if I’d choosed the different one. But I know that if I had chose Cognitive Science, I would think about how much I love CS whenever I pass the engineering building. This makes me feel much better.

As I get older, I think I got better at handling these kind of things I have to confront in life. I understand that I made a choice and it is possible that the other way I could have been looks cooler. (after all, that’s why it is my “the other way”!) Unless I think I made a terrible mistake, now I take these feelings much cooler, since it’s just natural. That is one thing (hopely among other things) I got better at as I got older.