Wake Forest Magazine, June 2009 - Past Issues - Wake Forest ...

If there really are two kinds of people in the world (beyond
the two kinds we all acknowledge: those who think there are
two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t), then,
among college students, there are those who take the bull by the horns and those who
are taken by the bull’s horns on the path the bull has been conditioned to follow.
The latter kind seems more inclined to pursue familiar career destinations by following
the well-traveled road of single major and minor. The former kind seems more
prone to bushwhacking trails to uncharted objectives by wielding multiple crossdisciplinary
majors or minors as their machetes.
Following are brief profiles of eight of those intrepid students. They may not always
be clear about where they started, have been, will go, or even wind up as they proceed
along their unorthodox and sometimes circuitous routes But then, we all know there
really are just two kinds of people in the world: those who think it’s the journey and
not the destination that counts and those who don’t.
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