<p>Astronomer or Astrophysicist :)</p>
<p>Foreign Service Officer (Diplomat) or something else in the world of Political Science.</p>
<p>Biochemist or material scientist, I want to do research on bio-materials.
I can’t decide now whether I want to stay in academia or do some more practical work like biochemical/material engineering. I will figure that out in college.</p>
<p>I also have some unrealistic dreams:
- Writing novels
-Exploring the connections between two languages, like Chinese and English
-Learning Middle Eastern languages, like Persian, Arabic
-Traveling around the world and making money from it by writing fantastic blogs, books or stuff like that</p>
<p>I always used to want to be a sports journalist, but my interest is waning and the job market isn’t great (like nearly every major).</p>
<p>Now I am thinking about an International Studies/Relations degree, maybe something like foreign policy analysis. I really have no idea though.</p>
<p>I was shooting for veterinary medicine, but now I’m not sure anymore. This is like my fifth time questioning what I really want to do in life. I like keeping it real, and honestly I don’t think I’m going to get into veterinary school. I suck at math, I suck at science, I’m terrible at analyzing things, I’m a walking jinx and I don’t think I can hold anyone’s life in my hands. Based on my characteristics, a career that would fit me it pretty slim to none. Also, I still haven’t found what I’m good at yet, so there’s a potential problem. </p>
<p>Through high school, I have narrowed down my list to either becoming a forensic scientist or a medical researcher (and search for the cure for the common cold perhaps?)</p>
<p>I’m most interested in becoming an aerospace engineer and working for NASA/designing rockets/jet propulsion etc. But I also love physics so if I one day decide to get a physics PhD There is that option as well.</p>
<p>I have wanted to be an orthodontist for a while, but wanted to be a teacher when I was little. I am now considering becoming a radiation oncologist after my mom was diagnosed with cancer. </p>
<p>I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I was four. Now I’m and have narrowed it down to being an anesthesiologist or psychiatrist.</p>
<p>I wish I knew. I would love to just go into Philosophy, or History or English Lit. but that won’t get me very far financially. I might go into International Business or follow my dad’s footsteps and go into Computer Science. I just don’t know anymore </p>
<p>Happy. 
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<p>Which hopefully I will be after becoming either an optometrist or orthodontist. </p>
<p>Enviromental Engineering</p>
<p>Up until recently, I wanted to go in to theoretical particle physics. After taking AP physics, however, I’ve discovered that my true passion lies not with physics, but with literature (talk about extreme changes). I also find statistics fascinating, and I will probably end up going into that field because of the much better job prospects. However, if I could make a living off of being a Shakespeare scholar, reading books and writing analytical papers, I would most definitely so that (I most positively do not want to teach/lecture).</p>
<p>Unfortunately, when I was applying to schools, all of my safeties ended up being tech schools (WPI, RIT, RPI, etc.) because I was thinking I wanted to major in physics at that point. I wish that there was not as much intense pressure to decide who we are and who we want to be, at least at this age (hypocritical of my to be responding to this thread, I know). There are most definitely students who know for sure what they want and have know since they were three years old, but I think that the constant question of “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is surprisingly harmful. Maybe it’s just because I am attending a relatively competitive private high school, but I think that there’s this notion that we have to decide exactly what we want to do in our lives by the time we apply to college. When you constantly change what you want to do, at least at my school there is this judgement that occurs where other students kind of subconsciously (on not so subconsciously) think less of you; they think that you’re unstable and going to end up working at McDonald’s for the rest of your life (okay, slight exaggeration, but you get the point). Again, I’m not sure if this is just my school or American high schools in general, but I think SOMEONE has to do a better job of explaining to kids that it’s okay to not know what they want to do for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>And there’s my classically long and wordy response to a simple question. :)</p>
<p>I really wanted to be a Marine Biologist when I was younger, then chef, then animator, then book editor, then mechanical engineer, then material scientist, now back to book editor/publisher. Yeah, I have changed a lot, in many different fields. I love marine life, the ocean, books, food, and so much more. I am seriously leaning towards Literature/Journalism as well as Marketing with a possible minor in engineering. Yeah, it’s a big load. I am narrowing it down, though. I have 3 years until college, which leaves me with plenty of time to decide. However, I love the thought of editing or publishing book as a job and reading books before they are ever on the shelf. Plus, I get paid to read books; its a bookworm’s dream.</p>
<p>i want to stock the produce area of my local supermarket WITH PRODUCES :D</p>
<p>I really want to study microbiology and maybe go into research :)</p>
<p>I’m interested in evolutionary biology, genetics, & the world’s problems/environmental science… not sure where that will lead me… :-? </p>
<p>I want to be either my life long dream of POTUS or a new career which I just made up called Interpretive Rocket Science. </p>
<p>I really want to study microbiology and maybe go into research :)</p>
<p>I would love to be an novelist, or maybe write for the New Yorker or the New York Times. I agree, though, that there is such an intense pressure to pick a career path from a young age. My sister, for instance, wanted to be an anthropologist for all of high school after reading a book on the ‘discovery of fire’, and made it very clear on her college applications. Now she’s been majoring in neuroscience for three years since taking her first college science class, and she loves it. Thank goodness she went to a school with great science programs </p>