The Goals of a So-called Academic Who Yearns to Be a Writer

My personal and professional goals have been converging towards a vanishing point for several years, but with my recent insights into the constraints of time and scholarship, it could be said that they have reached that point at which they are indistinguishable. It has always been my dream to become a writer, but it was that ability to express myself that brought me back from the brink. Writing is the creative outlet that keeps me from losing my sanity, and is therefore essential to my life. It had previously been my intention that I was going to use my collegiate time developing knowledge from various disciplines as research for various diffused writing projects that were the central reason for my remaining in an academic environment. Well, plans are good places to start, but are hardly final until they've been completed. As I got deeper into a study of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and most recently neuroscience, I began to understand how destructive these divisions are to a truly integrated theory of consciousness.