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Save lives? Or make truffles? Choosing a career is tough, but personality tests can help you figure it out
Skeptical about the results?
Some critics of personality-type inventories say that a career center is the only place where the results have any relevancy, and they criticize the tests for having over-simplified labels, which will only tell people what they should already know. David S. Holmes, KU professor of psychology, says that because nonprofessionals developed the Myers-
Briggs Type Inventory, its results can be unreliable and it should only be used for research.
"I can tell more about you after talking with you for ten minutes than taking the Myers-Briggs." Holmes says.
Solutions to some problems may seem obvious, such as ditching a nudist roommate. But personality test assessments can also offer help for the trickier college problems.
Put yourself to the test
Facebook applications like "Which Sex and the City Character Are You?" may not offer the thorough personality assessment you're looking for. Here's where to find some of the more reliable results mentioned in the article.
Myers-Briggs Type Inventory
* Go online to www.humanmetrics.com for a free but simplified version.
- Go online to www.myersbriggs.org to get information about the real thing.
- Check out Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates, which includes a self-exam and background information.
- Make an appointment with your friendly neighborhood psychotherapist (aka CAPS at Watkins).
- Go online to www.kucareerhawk.com.
- Click on "Online Tools," and then click on the "FOCUS-2" icon.
- Complete the registration using an e-mail address.
- Click on the "Personality Assessment" under the "Self Assessment" heading.
- Use access code: jayhawk and status: KU Student.
Do What You Are
- Call the University Career Center at (785) 864-3624 and make an appointment with a career counselor
Movie Review: Righteous Kill
- Bring $15 to pay for the assessment
Righteous Kill is one of those films that leaves you wondering "Why did this ever get made into a movie?"
The movie stars Al Pacino as Rooster and Robert De Niro as Turk, who play hardened New York City cops who are investigating a series of killings. It is a very predicable venture. one in which loyalties are questioned, friendships are tested, and no one really knows what's really going on. The movie attempts to twist and turn from the beginning but only manages to create wildly underdeveloped characters, a slew of bad tough-guy lines and possibly the worst plot plague I've ever seen in film.
The "twist" ending is visible within the first half hour. Watching these two great actors unable to get any authenticity from such a sub-par script is agonizing. The supporting cast is solid with John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg and Brian Dennehy. But even they can't inject life into this hollow corpse of a movie. 50 Cent plays an inner-city drug dealer and sadly is the most authentic of all the actors. The moment I knew this movie was going to be terrible is when we met Rob Dyrdek of Rob & Big fame as the skateboarding pimp, Rambo.
Miller Davis
Both Pacino and De Niro need to review their acting choices more thoroughly and not just jump at any movie that gives them a glimpse of their former hard-ass personas that we all know and love. I liked this movie better the first time it was made, when it was called Heat.
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