by Jenny Rough

Monday, January 11, 2010

My Sunny Personality

Here's one of the many things I love about writing: I love being at a random event and meeting a random person and learning a random fact and thinking, I HAVE to write about that. That's what happened last summer when I learned of a new website that matches students with colleges based on their personalities (sort of like e-Harmony, but for universities). Turns out there's a whole slew of websites out there that can help students find a good match, so I wrote an article about it for The Washington Post's Express, out today. During my research, I pretended like I was in my junior year of high school and filled out the questionnaire as honestly as I could (based on what I could remember about that time in my life). According to the match, I should've gone to school in . . . drum roll please . . . California.

6 Comments:

Blogger kario said...

Ahh, perfect! I love it.

7:28 PM

 
Blogger Susan Johnston said...

Jenny, congrats on the article and happy New Year! I'm not at all surprised to hear that you were matched with colleges in CA.

9:23 AM

 
Blogger Carrie Wilson Link said...

I love that phenomenon, too! And thanks for this site information, unbelievably enough, Woohoo will be a junior next year!

9:26 PM

 
Blogger fullsoulahead.com said...

Who would have ever thunk it?

11:01 PM

 
Blogger Jessica said...

I love that feeling too. That moment when you realise something amazing/random/ridiculous has just happened, and then the split second afterwards when you realise you can capture it. "Wait, I'm a writer. This is my job!"

I had a moment like that just the other day. I was driving through an up market suburb with manicured lawns etc. when a lady came power-walking around the corner pushing the wire frame of a bassinet pram. In the pram were agapanthus plants, flowing in the breeze. Random? Yes. Writing fodder? Absolutely!

4:33 AM

 
Blogger Lisa Romeo said...

I've put this right into the file I'm building for my son, who's a sophomore in high school right now, and knows nothing other than what college football teams he likes!

And yes, those random moments are fabulous - those times when you think to yourself, "Did I hear that right? Say that again!"

Always love catching up with your articles and writing life!

1:46 PM

 

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