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In the past week, two separate people in my life who spend a generous of time with me have independently come to the same conclusion about me, and have told me that what I do is I "figure things out." I wasn't going to post this the first time I heard it because I didn't understand it, and though I still may not, I'm just intrigued by either the remarkable coincidence or the potential insight as to what other people see in me.

I certainly don't figure everything out, seeing as I am no academic genius and actually struggling a lot with classes and grades. They might be implying that I figure out other people or ideas. I'd like to think that I figure people out pretty easily, but having no basis for comparison outside my own head this might not be right. I don't consider myself the best communicator, and don't often express what I'm thinking about unless I feel that it's important or relevant enough to whoever it is I am speaking to, as not to bore them or burden them with pointless shit.

One of the people who came to the conclusion of 'figuring out' has a nickname for me, and that is "The Funnel." This friend talks extensively about ideas and people and the world, and throughout our friendship I've gathered that information and consolidated it into a couple sentences to summarize his point, earning my title of The Funnel. But this doesn't explain how one of my supervisors at work has come to the same conclusion; I'm not too good at my job, though I have learned a lot, and in IT I am just as good as any other student employee at "figuring out" a tech issue that I've never been confronted with.

It must come from somewhere else, but I don't know where