“A reminder that assessments will be done in Applied Lab this week. You will be completing the NEO-PI-R and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

You are also asked to request that someone who knows you very well complete the NEO-PI on your behalf, i.e., this person (spouse, parent, sibling, friend) will respond to the items about you from their point of view. Inform him/her that their responses will not be read by you: His/her answers will be compiled by someone unknown to you or him/her. You will be given feedback from his/her collective responses in profile form (essentially a graph) at a later time. Please respond to this e-mail with the name of that person (and their relationship to you) by 5:00 Monday, January 25, so that a list of authorized names can be prepared.”

This is an email I received today from a professor who is quickly becoming the bane of my existence. In general I think things like this serve little purpose are just plain stupid. Not only that, we were given less than 24 hours to find someone. Poor planning and execution are becoming a very common part of the Richmont experience. The biggest thing that I don’t like about this though, is that this is just the very thing I was talking about in my last post. I can’t think of anyone within 300 miles of here that would even crack the top 10 of people who know me very well. Most people here in Atlanta don’t even know that I was an mk, my parents are divorced, or my brother is deaf. And I would consider all those things very surface, 1st level stuff. Not anywhere close to deep intimate knowledge of my personality. I’m not mad at the people around me here and I’m not really mad at myself because of that fact, I’m just mad at the whole situation.