Faced with dozens, even hundreds, of choices every day, anyone can get flustered once in awhile.

But for some, making up one's mind is no small task.

Some Harvard student say decision-making is a chore. They have the same decisions to make as the rest of us, but for them making a choice is just a little harder.

A routine trip to the supermarket becomes a Homeric journey. And choosing a course can resemble a Herculean feat.

For suffers of indecisiveness, even the most routine situation can present a baffling conundrum.

John A. Bresman '95-'96 may well be the poster-boy of indecision.

His condition has even brought him a bit of fame.

During his sophomore year, the Quincy House resident was invited by the Freshman Dean's Office to make an official presentation about how he can never make up his mind at a gathering during parent's weekend.

"My role was to be the comic relief," Bresman says of his experience on the panel. "[I told] how I talked to different professors, the assistant dean of students..., the special concentrations office."

Bresman, a first semester senior, told the audience about his struggle to declare a major (he currently has switched five different times).

Now, Bresman says he has wound up in the government department "by default." He is still approached by undergraduates who remember from the panel.

"Along the way, my various electives have worked to fit the government requirement," says Bresman, whose majors have included history of science, social studies, biological anthropology and biology.

Bresman says his inability to choose a major stems, in large part, from his interest in several different courses.

Indeed, while many undergraduates with wide-ranging interests might shop as many as 10 or even 15 courses, Bresman routinely samples up to 36 courses at the start of one semester.

And he enrolls in at least 10 of them well after the end of shopping week.