Collegiate Race Recap and a Personality Test

My Tia is an absolute life saver, sending me Starbucks k-cups to brighten my mornings and evening homework sessions. When I asked how I would live without her, she responded with "decaffeinated". Truth. She is that special person in my life who bought me my first Starbucks drink when I was ten years old - salted caramel hot chocolate.  It was love at first sip.

 

 

As you can tell by my face, Friday's xc race was death. Reminscient of the battle scene in Narnia, the race began on a flat grassy plain that gave way to rolling, sandy hills. I covered the first half mile in 3:26 and was feeling pretty good, Bethany and Rachael were right behind me and our rivals had begun to decluster and spread out in front of us. I totally thought that the race would play out like the last one - surge up to a group of girls, stay with them, then pass them and repeat. I clocked a 7:26 for my first milesplit but wasn't too worried, I reasoned that the loose sand slowed me down a bit but that I would gain momentum as the race went on. Nope. The entire course consisted of loose sand and long hills. It was like being stuck in the Matrix, where the sand was draining my energy and fight with every stride. Bethany passed me by the 2nd mile mark, but I had zero oomph to keep up with her. I finished with a time of 24:28, 26th out of 63 girls. I guess it didnt help that I had a cold, which has only worsened since the race.

 

Warning-the following information is probably only interesting to those in my family, as is this entire blog. If you could care less about where my tuition dollars are going and my personality type, you may want to go back to lurking on your friend's profiles on Facebook.

For my Christ, Culture, and University class I took the Myers-Briggs personality test, which was so accurate that I am wondering if scientists have been stalking me since my birth and taking case notes.  The test consists of 93 questions, which ask about your tendencies/preferences in certain situations. Your answers to the questions show whether you lean toward being introverted vs extroverted, intuitive vs sensing, thinking vs feeling, and judging vs perceiving.  

I am classified as an INTJ - introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging.

According to the book, those with introverted intuition and extraverted thinking:

• "want and need challenge, and they often have a high need for achievement. They have a driving need to be competent, and they often set high standards for themselves."
• "they are always analyzing their actions with an eye to improvement"
• "self-critical"
• "an exceptionally strong need for independence"
• "will power"
• and my personal favorite - "Respect is given to others only on the basis of their competence and understanding, not on the basis of their position. When INTJs are certain of their insights, they will ignore the system and rules."
• "determined"
• "vision oriented"

I think that my family and close friends would agree that I reflect most, if not all, of the above statements. Now I understand myself better.