not that focusing on the majors is bad -- it's a good idea -- i just thought it worth mentioning that the word "area" conjured up high school and not majors for me.
Everyone has something valuable to give whether they are smart or not. More relevant is "Do I like this person?"
A focus on intelligence rather than "do i like them" seems like you are rigging the game in favor of your strengths. You're intelligent so that's the lens through which you view the world. A beautiful person or an exception people person might use those lens.
Again, "do i like them?" is more important than your biased lens.
So I've come around to the ruby standard that everything is true except for nil and false, e.g., the integer 0 is true, etc. At first I didn't like it but now I think it makes a lot of sense.A few things to think about --Do people rely on database fields always being nil or do you initialize new objects to something else?I find myself using the isblank? method (added to rails but is not...