Goals

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So, what does everyone here want to accomplish? I was taking a walk just now and thought of making a short list of a few of my tangible semi-long term goals, and imagined then that it would make for a good thread topic. So, for me:</p>

<p>Physical Goals
Complete a Triple Crown
Compete in and do well in a Triathlon and a 100K
Finish a race longer than a 100k
Explore 6 continents extensively on foot, and visit the 7th (Antarctica) by whatever means possible, maybe do the 7 summits
Follow in the footsteps of Basho
Travel everywhere (were I to list out everything I wanted to see, I'd break the character limit -- suffice to say, I intend to spend a few years after I graduate college vagabonding across the globe)
Become proficient at parkour
Master a pragmatic self-defence oriented fighting style (Krav Maga, Sambo, MCMAP, Pankration, etc; maybe balance it out with a bit more of Muay Thai or whatever)
Free climb a 5.10 with ease
Learn to skydive, hangglide, paraglide, sailplane (ie learn to pilot a small, recreational, motorized aircraft), hot air ballon, and surf
Achieve immortality (not transhumanist waffle, not figuratively, but actually. If not this, then at least break 100)</p>

<p>Intellectual Goals
Build a functional computer from scratch (as in, actually from scratch -- not from assembling pre-made parts)
Make my own fusor
Learn five languages to fluency (halfway there! Still have yet to perfect my Spanish and learn German and either Chinese or Japanese)
Earn a doctorate in biology
Perform groundbreaking biological research
Discover new species
Get published in a scientific journal (a placeholder for the above 2 -- this will ensure that I will have done *something *of merit [I don't actually care so much about getting published, truth be told])
Write an interesting book (currently thinking of something easy, like a travelogue for the scientifically inclined)
Destroy my current convictions</p>

<p>Emotional Goals
Build and maintain intimate, lifelong relationships with friends
Find a long-term romantic partner willing to pursue all the above with me, whose very presence brings joy to my... limbic system (the heart pumps blood!)</p>

<p>Ok, well, that's all I want to think of for now, but I certainly have a huge number more. Keep your responses firmly grounded, if you may, in the concrete -- no putting "learn new things" or "live in the moment" (and yes, I broke this rule once or twice. No cookies for me). I'm interested in seeing what people on here want to do.</p>

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<p>Break into the top 10 of my class
Be editor-in-chief of the school paper (Came VERY close to getting it this year…didn’t get it due to politics, and I’m OK with that)
Be considered a “good” drum major (I know this is vague, but it will be measured but I’ll measure it pretty much on whether people say I’m a good performer…)
Get a terminal degree. Not sure what field, but I’d like that.
Score 2100 on the SAT</p>

<p>That’s all I can think of right now. I feel very unambitious compared to you, but I am. I promise.</p>

<p>I think the destroy my convictions one is very interesting</p>

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<ul>
<li>finish my finals</li>
<li>beat zeb at go</li>
<li>understand all my classes</li>
<li>find good friends</li>
<li>learn how to give tours of campus properly :3</li>
<li>volunteer on a crisis hotline</li>
<li>make 2000 posts on college confidential</li>
</ul>

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<ul>
<li><p>Get a full ride to the University of Washington/Illinois</p></li>
<li><p>Go to S. Africa</p></li>
<li><p>Get fired from my job in the next month</p></li>
<li><p>Come up with a clever way to lure freshman into Fashion Club this year</p></li>
<li><p>To go all of 2009 without Fast Food (successful so far)</p></li>
</ul>

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<p>Moodrets, you’re amazing.</p>

<p>Anyway, here we go:</p>

<p>-Get a job that involves doing what I love while still helping people
-Travel to Tuscany
-Stay with the man I love forever
-Have kids
-Be a good mom
-Die happy</p>

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<ul>
<li>Save another person’s life. (I don’t know how)</li>
<li>I want my name to be remembered, and in a good way. (What can I say, I’m egotistical. I hope I can find my name in a textbook 300 years from now.)</li>
</ul>

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<p>I have some. </p>

<p>I’d love to get a doctorate in English, and get an MFA for writing from the University of Iowa. </p>

<p>During the time getting that, I’d like to get my teaching certificate and teach. Maybe come back to my current high school. I’ve seen some things I’d like to at least attempt to change. </p>

<p>If I decide English doesn’t work for me, I want to go to Bard COnservatory in Music, with my double major in English. </p>

<p>With both of those I hope to organize a young youth orchestra in my area. There’s the ones that start for kids in sixth grade, but I’m thinking more fourth grade.</p>

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<p>-write a book and get it published before I’m 25
-Get a 2250+ on the SAT
-get a 4.0 UW junior year
-get into a good college where my parents only have to pay $10-15k a year
-be happy
-travel the world, especially Europe
-relocate to Europe
-buy a castle
-get a Phd in a subject I love, and get a job I look forward to every day</p>

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<p>Academic goals:
-getting an award in Intel/Siemens next year
-understanding topics in all my classes, getting straight A’s
-2300+
-36
-getting a full scholarship and acceptance to a top-tier school next year
-not procrastinating, finding a joy in learning
-remain rank 1</p>

<p>Other goals:
-be fluent in Chinese and some other language
-drive across the United States
-get 2K posts on CC
-go on facebook less
-go on computer only when necessary
-read more books
-be able to plan successfully ahead of time, and knowing exactly what I want in life
-learn how to be happy in life, learn how to adapt to situations
-learn how to make friends with everyone
-find a passion I can enjoy and succeed at
-succeed in college, after, and later life
-continue to exercise, and always stay healthy
-train my brain mentally
-learn how to lucid dream
-learn how to count cards
-learn how to solve the Rubik’s cube in less than 30 seconds
-get physically stronger
-learn how to resist any temptation
-learn how to be respected and admired by everyone</p>

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<p>Oh, I’d also like to read somewhere around 10,000 books over the course of the remainder of this century (not as a goal in and of itself, but rather because it’s a nice round number (says I, the ten-fingered), and I like to read).</p>

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<p>These are short term goals pretty much.</p>

<p>Physical

  • Straddle Splits
  • 6 o’clock ponchee maybe
  • Perform en pointe
  • Run more often
  • Bike more often
  • Buy tennis shoes I actually like</p>

<p>Intellectual

  • Learn enough ASL to have a great convo with my cousin about things other than food
  • Become fluent in French
  • Learn enough Russian to read Woe from Wit
  • Break into Top 10 at school (3 places to go I think)
  • Regain all my lost Latin skizills + more</p>

<p>Misc

  • Stop using the computer so much
  • Read over 40 books a year
  • Be healthy, happy, wealthy, and wise XD</p>

<p>Ahh, that’s good enough</p>

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<p>make up a word that gets into the major dictionaries.</p>

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<p>Get enough scholarships for college</p>

<p>be able to speak japanese fluently</p>

<p>get a high paying job in the history field (muesum or something)</p>

<p>loose weight</p>

<p>go to japan (though i’m really getting sick of planes :P)</p>

<p>Try authintic ramen</p>

<p>get good grades in college (enough to graduate with honors)</p>

<p>learn martial arts</p>

<p>learn how to draw better</p>

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<p>You’re kind of fascinating, Moodrets.</p>

<p>Anyway, like you, I’ll try to attack the gist of what I want to do:</p>

<p>Long-term

  • Research and implement qualitative solutions for peaceful conflict resolution and human rights issues (globally)
  • Target minority underachievement with groundbreaking education and social reform
  • Earn a Ph.D (in government? neuroscience? creative writing?! Who knows)
  • Travel everywhere
  • Understand theism / religious fundamentalism
  • Create a pioneering documentary that orients around some specific human rights problem
  • Become fluent in multiple languages
  • Find solutions for female infanticide, particularly in India
  • Adopt a child from a foreign country
  • Write books that mean something
  • Script a movie</p>

<p>Short-term

  • Complete a number of writing projects, including a novel, a screenplay, and several short stories
  • Achieve full academic potential (whatever that means)
  • Curb my CC addiction
  • Learn how to mod gaming software
  • Stop putting things off
  • Think before I say things that are potentially important
  • Understand and actually maybe glean something new from my classes
  • Be nicer to my friends
  • Get into a college that I like
  • Figure out how to constructively deal with things
  • Understand my family (this is possibly a long-term goal, actually)
  • Gain self-confidence</p>

<p>And some other random stuff.</p>

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<p>-Own a house
-Become a millionaire by age 30.
-Invest invest invest
-Open an Italian restaurant.
-Own a Porsche.
-Start swimming laps during the summer.
-Run five miles a week.
-Get cosmetic surgeries (facial and breast).
-Travel to Europe.
-Have a lasting intimate relationship
-Become an adult emotionally and mentally.
-Learn Russian.
-Travel to most of the major cities in the US.
-Have children.
-Start a webcam business
-Learn Spanish
-Read more books
-Be more comfortable with the fact that I’m dumb and won’t change.</p>

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<p>I want to build a time machine. No joke.</p>

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<p>tomjonesistheman:</p>

<p>-get 2K posts on CC
-go on computer only when necessary</p>

<p>Uh, that’s a bit of a contradiction. hahaha</p>

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<p>Vehicle - Cosmetic surgery = huge turn-off.</p>

<p>Boob jobs are terrible and facials make you look fake.</p>

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<p>going on CC is necessary…</p>

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<ul>
<li>Be happily married for life</li>
<li>Find the cheat code for real life analogous to klapaucious and !;!;!;!;!;</li>
</ul>