Cheryl Einhorn, an expert on how to make decisions, introduced us to the AREA method. The AREA method is supposed to be objective and allows you to consider your own biases when making decisions, including decisions such as in relationships and career paths. She worked as a journalist, and after realizing the power of her words to potentially destroy people’s entire careers, she needed a way for her to ensure she was being objective about what she was writing. And thus, the AREA method was born.

However, at this point you might be wondering, what is this AREA method. Sounds interesting and useful, especially for all the life changing decisions we have to make as college students. To tell you the truth, even after the presentation, I didn’t really get the the whole thing besides what the AREA method is supposed to do. You have to read her book to find out how to actually use the AREA method. She did explain in general what each of the letters entailed, with different processes in each, but you are better off just reading her book.

Even though after the end of the presentation I was still confused, and it seemed to me that others were too, it make me happy to know that there is a way to make decisions in a way besides reflecting on the jumbled and tangled mess that is my mind to find an answer.