<ol>
<li>Get my license</li>
<li>Get a lot better at ASL</li>
<li>Get into one of my top choices where I’m happy</li>
<li>Not behave in such a way that makes my father disown me or something</li>
<li>Write a novel</li>
<li>Get an undergraduate degree</li>
<li>Be consistently happy while NOT in Maryland (Maryland makes me happy</li>
<li>Get over the wrong boy (who is not “wrong” but impossible) and into the right one, whoever he may be
9.Keep all of my promises to myself</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Get a car!</li>
<li>Graduate in the top 20% of my class</li>
<li>Get into a good college that i’ll be happy at</li>
<li>Become fluent in French</li>
<li>Improve my Russian to become fluent again</li>
<li>Travel the world</li>
<li>Still be best friends with M, E, & I.</li>
<li>Still be with my current boyfriend</li>
<li>Get into shape (lol… I like how I say that while I’m eating a cookie)</li>
<li>Study abroad</li>
<li>Not die or become terminally ill.</li>
</ol>
<p>Wow, 5 years I’ll be 21. Never really thought about that… weird.</p>
<ol>
<li>Get my license… Hopefully in the next few weeks, It’s getting downright pathetic, I’ve had my permit for almost 14 months now. I suck.</li>
<li>Go to college… probably SMCM.</li>
<li>Get paid at my job.</li>
<li>Get good grades in college.</li>
<li>Graduate and go/ get in to a good law/graduate school.</li>
<li>Become fluent in Spanish. Work on Arabic/French/Farsi/Yiddish. (od, I know)</li>
</ol>
<p>Some of these answers were very pleasantly surprising, though some of the answers were also typical “get into ____ college, and learn to have a little fun.”</p>
<p>Well, I think that’s the point of this thread. Obviously every poster on CC wants to get into some college or another, but I think a few so-called trivial goals would also brighten up your life and add some perspective. You know, life can’t always be about the Big Accomplishments. The small things can make a lot of happiness too.
So again, posters try and restrain from anything to do with college or graduate school. </p>
<p>LOL @ the poster who said “flip off my freshman German teacher” That’s quite a goal. I have at least several peers or teachers I would like to do the same to…</p>
<p>I’ve decided to add a few more:</p>
<p>6) Some day work on a movie set as an extra or an assistant
7) Seen at least half the movies on IMDB Top 250 list (as you can see I’m a movie geek)
8) live in a foreign country
9) Own a cat!</p>
<ol>
<li>expand my own community service program using student activity resources in college</li>
<li>go to Latin America to teach english just for a summer</li>
<li>design and implement a cancer intervention project in an inner city neighborhood</li>
<li>attend a Sarah Palin rally and ask her many hard questions</li>
<li>be on my way for an md AND mph</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Go skydiving</li>
<li>Get laid</li>
<li>Go skydiving while getting laid.</li>
<li>???</li>
<li>Profit.</li>
</ol>
<p>so here are my very asian goals
- usabo finals
- RSI
- intel semis at least
- MIT
- Harvard med school + residency + fellowship + job as oncologist</p>
<p>-Stop procrastinating (we’ll see how that turns out)
-Learn Chinese/Japanese and go to one of those countries
-Get into Cornell/Northwestern/JHU
-Get into med school
-Learn to ski/snowboard</p>
<ol>
<li>just pwn whatever I end up doing</li>
<li>become an expert at something</li>
<li>win on poker night (I always come in 2nd or 3rd. basically whatever it takes to get my money back).</li>
<li>get laid</li>
<li>win at poker in Vegas and get laid in the same night.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li><p>become an amazing human being (as in become social, smart, clever, witty, talented, good-looking, religious, and self-righteous all balanced) (this is probably my number one goal in life)</p></li>
<li><p>succeed in college in watever i do.</p></li>
<li><p>start my own business or organization that benefits the world and from which i can help myself and my family.</p></li>
<li><p>become built, muscular, and athletic</p></li>
<li><p>get accepted to medical school and be the happiest/most grateful person in the world.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>ahhh…i love dreaming. but dreams can come true.</p>
<ol>
<li>Go skydiving.</li>
<li>Complete my MS in aerospace engineering and BS in physics while having an awesome college experience.</li>
<li>Climb El Capitan.</li>
<li>Complete a triathlon </li>
<li>Not be in debt.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Learn Spanish and French.</li>
<li>Ski the Alps.</li>
<li>Write a book.</li>
<li>Travel around Europe. </li>
<li>Not fail…anything.</li>
</ol>
<p>BUMP 10 char</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to college (and everything it entails).</li>
<li>Learn a couple more languages.</li>
<li>Write a book or two.</li>
<li>Get into a great grad school program.</li>
<li>Visit Russia.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Go to college & grad school</li>
<li>Write a book (I did not copy this from QuasiProfound, I have been wanting to to this for a while, and have started several times)</li>
<li>Learn to juggle 5 balls (I don’t know why, but I just really love juggling)</li>
<li>Find out what I want to do with my life</li>
<li>Learn to play the piano</li>
<li>Read Ulysses, War and Peace and other really famous books that I haven’t read</li>
</ol>
<p>Ok, people, NO COLLEGES OR GRAD SCHOOL IN LISTS! That’s destroying the whole purpose of this thread.</p>
<p>Oops, sorry. I’ll change two of mine then. :)</p>
<ol>
<li>Read all the (non-academic, Kiwi!) books on my list.</li>
<li>Learn to cook the elaborate dishes.</li>
</ol>
<p>1) Get and Watch every Buffy and Angel Episode! 
2) Get a partial, but hopefully a full scholarship to a college here.
3) 33 on the ACT!!! 
4) Get into Pharmacy or Medical School depending on which I pick.
5) Get my license and not kill any mailboxes. 
6) Not die… (#1 priority right there…)
7) Become amazing at blackjack. (This could also be a backup plan if #2 doesn’t work out. :))
8) Learn how to knit again.</p>
<ol>
<li>play in the world series of poker</li>
<li>stay with my gf</li>
<li>get built, muscular, athletic</li>
<li>graduate with honors/distinction in cs (or w/e else i choose)</li>
<li>start a startup company</li>
<li>get really good at a video game (like when I was in high school)</li>
<li>learn golf/piano/guitar while I’m at stanford (pe/activity classes =])</li>
<li>after the startup get accepted to stanford or harvard business school</li>
<li>learn to surf (preferably this winter break)</li>
<li>finally find a haircut that works for me</li>
</ol>
<p>apparently ccers fail at disassociating “fun, quirky life goals” from “get into college”.</p>