I have never had much faith in personality-type tests, and the Meyers-Briggs test was no exception; although I answered the questions to the fullest of my knowledge of myself, I could help but scoff at a few of them as I scrolled down the page. Because of this, I was absolutely astonished when I looked at the results. I could not comprehend how, from answering a mere seventy-two questions, the two pages that came up made me feel as if though I was reading about myself. When I flipped to the teaching and writing styles section of the course anthology, I expected to find something wrong, something that was not true. My unrealistic sensation was instantaneously belied as I read through all the bullets and paragraphs and recalled the writing projects in my senior English class in high school, shocked at how realistically it described my writing habits.
            The test categorized me as an extroverted-intuitive-feeling-judging (ENFJ) type person, and I was surprised to discover the similarities between the characteristics described in the course anthology. In the teaching/learning styles section, I found that the bullets were consistently accurate with only a few exceptions. I also feel that in the writing section, bullets described exactly how I felt whenever I sat myself in front of a computer to start working on a paper, be it ten pages or only one. The characteristic that jumped out at me the most from the course anthology was to be found on page 135, where it states that extraverts have the tendency to “leap into writing; outline later,” as well as the need to “take breaks for outer stimulation.” This statement is qualified by the fact that I started to write this short essay at noon, and it is currently midnight.
            Another thing I found to be strangely accurate was how, on page 136 of the course anthology, it claimed that extraverts “excel at writing about experience.” Even if I wanted to believe that this clause did not apply to me, I would find through my last sentence in the second paragraph that such a belief would simply be untrue. I am curious as to how I will further develop the sense of who I am as I continue my self-study, for I am now starting to realize that perhaps I did not know myself as much as I had once thought.