What Are Your Academic Strengths?

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Pick the academic area in which you are most talented. Talented meaning, the one that is the easiest for you.

I'm good with anything involving words.

I'm crap at anything with numbers.

Wile I fancy myself a fiction writer (unpublished), it was history that I had majored in while in college, and in which I have my Bachelors degree in.

Mainly writing non-fiction about myself, and fiction.

Wish I'd done languages at University but went into law.

Anything involving electronics.

None.

Definitely math, and science involving math like chemistry. However, I'm awful at advanced chemistry because a large part of it is making connections, which I can't do. Regardless, math has never been a struggle for me. I like it because there's always a clear cut answer, and a right or wrong way to do things. It's consistent.

On the flip side, I'm terrible at subjects like English because it's so open ended.

None.

The in-between subjects, as I think of them like history, psychology and introductory biology. Anything that mainly involves regurgitating facts on multiple choice and short answer format exams. I'm thinking of all these things at high-school or undergraduate level. When I actually worked hard these were the subjects in which I could get really really high grades. They're in-between something open-ended and subjective and involving writing essays about theorists like English and Philosophy and something requiring hard technical skills and facts like math, physics or chemistry. I also did very well in Linguistics.

am academicaly challenged and have a very low level in all forms of it, though am very able in specific areas of computing when compared to the average person.
had gone to special school and special college and sucked completely at IT during both,was always crashing the computers every lesson and woud be left to own devices with the support teacher.
they sometimes had days where it woudnt be IT we did but instead gaming, and was good at that, we were allowed to play games like cannon fodder,lemmings,sensible soccer etc,have got fond memories of cannon fodder.

I had to select other as I tended to be equal across the board in the most part.

Over the years, at one level of study or another, I have studied sociology, psychology, biology, physics, geology, media studies, english language, english literature, drama, archaeology, heritage studies, environmental science/natural sciences, business admin NVQ's, typing certificates, IT skills, Maths...

I also had poetry published as teenager and was told I was a natural at horse riding as a child (and very nearly went to a newmarket riding school where they train jockey's (my dad was an ex national hunt (jump) jockey in his youth but had an accident that ended his career early on) but changed my mind at the last minute..I wanted to pursue academics instead).

Hard to pick what I was best at..grades were pretty even, mosly A grades and when I did get grades that were lower it was mostly due to circumstances or my not having done any of the work rather than lack of ability in the subject area.

I sometimes wonder if that is why people hated me and gave me such a hard time. I was good a lots of things and it pissed everybody off.

I would have been happy share my skill to help them if they had of asked though, I am not selfish with it.

Unfortunately my social issues mean I managed to achieve jack s**t with any of my ability so that should cheer people who hate me up a bit.

Writing and music.

It used to be phys, chem, and applied maths. I should say that my favourite subject was always biology, though- but I approached biology in much the same way as I approached phys, and chem: analytical and methodical. That is not to say I was cold in how I analyzed/studied living organisms, much to the contrary, I was primarily interested in nature due to my sense of wonder and fascination toward individual animals and plants as well as my desire to help protect animal rights and welfare. But the way I took in the data and facts on biological systems and organisms, was highly abstract.

Over time, mostly throughout my late teens, I neglected this talent of mine more and more, to the point where I'm heavily 'out-of-shape', so to speak. And now, I don't really have an academic skill that stands out among those of other people. Them's the breaks!

I have to analyze every cathegory of the pool.
physics, chemistry, applied math average at physics, not good at chemistry, good at algebra but not at geometry
languages, writing (fiction or non-fiction), linguistics not a good writer (except when I write about sci-fi, horror or police stories; I'm good at those), pretty good in linguistics
logic, pure math, theoretical computer science I'm ok at all of those
engineering, IT dunno, never did those
life sciences, medicine, pharmacology suck at those
political science, economics suck at those
philosophy I don't get anything of it
fine art, music, photography good at those
media, communications, journalism not my thing
performing arts: film, dance, theater maybe I could make a good film director but I could never be an actress, a dancer or work in the theater
education, psychology, sociology suck at them
anthropology, archaeology pretty good at those
business, law, international relations don't get anything of those
ethnic studies, gender studies, cultural studies not my thing
earth science, meterology, environmental studies good at those
history, geography I suck at both
decorative art, woodshop, metalshop pretty good at those

I clicked on political science and economics.

I was doing that at uni, but I only ended up doing it by accident.

It was never an actual plan of mine to go to uni.