"I decided to pursue pottery, rather than painting," she said, "mainly because I wanted to create affordable and beautiful things".
As a postdoc I decided to learn Perl rather than Java or C programming languages.
Recently I decided to Google the rather unusual moniker we have given our newest park: "Art and landscape installation". Quite frankly, I had never heard those words put together in that order before, and I wondered if Burbank had actually stumbled onto something unique.
'I really love communicating with people and I really get on well and I like talking to people and that is when I decided to do medicine rather than veterinary [medicine like my father], yeah that was really the main factor' (Year 2 'white' female student).
So I decided to celebrate the spots rather than erase them".
Even in my delicate state, I decided to cycle to work, rather than get public transport.
I decided to start with some rather fundamental rules: like gravity.
I decided to focus on "healing" rather than "happiness," engaging in healing practices like journaling, walking, prayer, and meditation.
Through those activities, I learned that I enjoyed working with people, so in my senior year, I decided to pursue an MBA rather than a PhD in physics.
It was a Friday in Berlin, I was exhausted, so I decided to spend the night rather than trudge on to the next city.
Once I'd calmed down and was sure I could walk, I decided to go back upstate rather than wait for hours in an emergency room.
