Decision Making In Blink By Malcolm Galdwell
Most people will make thousands of decisions in just one day, while some are important, others can impact someone’s life very much. In the book Blink, by Malcolm Galdwell, it tries to teach the readers that decisions that are made in two seconds are just as good as decisions that took months. Unlike this book, it took me months to finally decide what to do. The big decision I had to make was where I was going to go to college. It seems fairly simple, just pick a school to go to for the next four years, but, for me it wasn’t. I only wanted to go to Michigan State and when I applied I ended up only getting in for the spring; that is when my decision got difficult.
At first, I was extremely upset; I didn’t into the only school I wanted to go to
for all four years. As I was feeling all these different emotions from angry to sad, I still had to start thinking about what my plan was going to be. I didn’t want to live with my parents for another semester when everyone else is moving in. I started thinking about just going to Grand Valley for all four years, which was the only other school I applied to. I already had toured the campus and it was nice, but I wanted to go to a big ten school and live on a huge campus; Grand valley didn’t have those things I wanted, so I realized I shouldn’t go there. My difficult decision continued as I had to find a different solution to my problem.
Then I thought about staying home first semester, instead of going to school, and working. The benefit of this would be saving up lots of money and I would also be able to go to Michigan State in the spring. The problem I had with this is that I didn’t want to be behind in school; I didn’t want to be a whole semester behind every other freshman at Michigan State, if anything I would want to be ahead. It was obvious to me that I needed to be at some school during the fall if I didn’t want to get behind.
Since I wanted to go to Michigan State in the spring and not get behind in my classes, the only other option I really had was going to community college for a semester. I thought I could just go to Schoolcraft and take a few classes. The benefit is that it would be cheaper than going to Michigan State in the fall; I would be saving money. On the other hand, I didn’t want to go to a school that almost everyone made fun of in high school; I wanted to go to a school nearly everyone would know, for example Michigan State . At that point, I didn’t know what to do till my friend Caroline, who also only got into Michigan State for the spring, told me what she was doing. I found out she was going to the University of Michigan Dearborn for the first semester, which helped with my decision tremendously. I applied to U of M Dearborn the same day she told me and later got in. This school was nearly perfect because U of M is well known, I would be saving money, I wouldn’t be behind in classes, and most importantly I would end up going to Michigan State. The only cost would be continuing to live with my parents for another semester, but I knew that this school was the best fit I could find for the fall semester. I ended up registering for my classes and going to the University of Michigan Dearborn for the fall.
At first, I was extremely upset; I didn’t into the only school I wanted to go to
for all four years. As I was feeling all these different emotions from angry to sad, I still had to start thinking about what my plan was going to be. I didn’t want to live with my parents for another semester when everyone else is moving in. I started thinking about just going to Grand Valley for all four years, which was the only other school I applied to. I already had toured the campus and it was nice, but I wanted to go to a big ten school and live on a huge campus; Grand valley didn’t have those things I wanted, so I realized I shouldn’t go there. My difficult decision continued as I had to find a different solution to my problem.
Then I thought about staying home first semester, instead of going to school, and working. The benefit of this would be saving up lots of money and I would also be able to go to Michigan State in the spring. The problem I had with this is that I didn’t want to be behind in school; I didn’t want to be a whole semester behind every other freshman at Michigan State, if anything I would want to be ahead. It was obvious to me that I needed to be at some school during the fall if I didn’t want to get behind.
Since I wanted to go to Michigan State in the spring and not get behind in my classes, the only other option I really had was going to community college for a semester. I thought I could just go to Schoolcraft and take a few classes. The benefit is that it would be cheaper than going to Michigan State in the fall; I would be saving money. On the other hand, I didn’t want to go to a school that almost everyone made fun of in high school; I wanted to go to a school nearly everyone would know, for example Michigan State . At that point, I didn’t know what to do till my friend Caroline, who also only got into Michigan State for the spring, told me what she was doing. I found out she was going to the University of Michigan Dearborn for the first semester, which helped with my decision tremendously. I applied to U of M Dearborn the same day she told me and later got in. This school was nearly perfect because U of M is well known, I would be saving money, I wouldn’t be behind in classes, and most importantly I would end up going to Michigan State. The only cost would be continuing to live with my parents for another semester, but I knew that this school was the best fit I could find for the fall semester. I ended up registering for my classes and going to the University of Michigan Dearborn for the fall.