<p>Since many of the CCers on here are very driven & motivated....I was just curious as to what's really behind it (besides getting into a good college lol).</p>
<p>So, my question to you guys is...what do you want to be when you get older? And, do you have any dreams to fulfill that might make a change in the world??!</p>
<p>For me, I just want to go to a decent undergrad & major in Econ w/ a minor in Political Science. Then, I'd love to go to an ivy league grad/law school probably somewhere like Columbia.</p>
<p>Dreams- to work at IBM, World Bank,the U.N. (uncles works there), a NGO, law firm or a state dept. in the d.c. area.</p>
<p>I know it sounds stupid & cliche but when I start making a good income I would love to start up a charity or donate large sums of it to poor, undeveloped countries--for the betterment of the developing nations and helping children and elders acquire the basic neccessities of life, that we take it for granted, and perhaps try to help out back home where my parents are from. Oh yeah, and lastly, help support my parents :)</p>
<p>Go to a great school, with a degree in something. After that, find a guy and get married. If I can, head a charity like (RED) or ONE, maybe even be an ambassador to a country in Africa for the UN.</p>
<p>I would love to make a difference, impact the world in some big way, get into future world history textbooks, etc., but so would a lot of other people.</p>
<p>I have no idea how I’d do it, but at the moment I’m really looking into going into international security or something of the like.</p>
<p>I really do want to change the world in some way.
I want to go to a well-respected non-ivy undergrad, go for a big name Med School, get an exclusive residecy/fellowship in nephrology/internal medicine and aid in the research for an artificial kidney.</p>
<p>My brother had a kidney stone once, and he basically had to deliver a baby without an epidural (That stone was HUGE). That got me interested in nephrology. It would be naive of me to think that I could single-handedly develop a artificial kidney, but I’d definitely like to contribute to it’s growing research:)</p>
<p>It’s funny that you would mention that, because my dreamy revisions of changing the world have changed so many times lol. For now, though, I think I would just like to first go to a superb undergrad school, follow it up with a billion (useful would be nice) degrees, and possibly start up an organization or something to do things I’ve cared about since I was a little kid.</p>
<p>Like: 1) Persuade world to limit children produced daily, 2) Bring back animals in danger of disappearing, 3) lessen people’s instinctive and mainly stupid phobias toward things, 4) educate everyone somehow, etc.</p>
<p>Or maybe I’ll just get a ridiculously high-paying job in some random field and retire by being a professional concert pianist (which I would never be quite good enough to make my living on). LOL</p>
<p>I would like to work on public policy issues in Haiti, in addition to mediating some of the larger, more political problems currently existing between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.</p>
<p>My goal isn’t to be in a textbook, though that would be nice. I would prefer to be remembered in the hearts of a few than renowned in the short-lived collective memory.</p>
<p>Cheap school -> CS/math or accounting degree</p>
<p>From there, I see two desirable scenarios:</p>
<p>A. Quickly transition to a management position and become the eccentric boss who works constantly and breaks lamps when angry.</p>
<p>B. Spend the rest of my life as a corporate drone earning a very comfortable living and leaving the office with time to enjoy my other interests.</p>
<p>It’d be cool to be a biochemistry PhD earning a Nobel for work on protein folding, a famous mathematician, or a college dropout lording over the World Series of Poker. However, these are unlikely paths and I prefer to maximize my expected happiness.</p>
<p>Pretty sure I can accomplish eventually:
This is totally cliche, but write a book. Not necessarily a novel or anything to be published, just anything that will get all that stuff swirling around my mind outside of me and down on print that will last longer than I will.
Paint something I’ll actually be extremely proud of.
Love my job, whatever it is (which I don’t know yet).
Visit museums. Eat strange food. Not necessarily travel, but if I do it’s definitely going to be a cultural experience (i.e. not a cruise ship or something corny like that).</p>
<p>Not sure if possible or that I’ll even get to try:
Earn enough income to adopt a child that ordinarily may have had a warped life, and raise him/her.
Start a successful business, even if it’s on a website.</p>
<p>I don’t think most people who have ended up changing the world actually planned to from the start (keyword most). If I can not be a burden to those around me and produce art that lasts longer than I do, I’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I want to go to a nice college, and a better college for graduate school, then get a decent, nice paying job doing something I enjoy (it’s possible), then find a woman I love and make cute babies with her, and have a family and a super duper large nice house.</p>
<p>I want to go to a decent college (hopefully an Ivy, but I’m not banking on it) and double major in Political Science and Economics. Then, I want to get a job in International Affairs, eventually settle in D.C., get married, have kids, and retire comfortably.</p>
<p>But I’m young, so all of that will change. As they say, life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. ;)</p>
<p>I would like to slowly consolidate power, build connections in school, and then work my way to becoming dictator of a country, preferably the United States.</p>
<p>I would like the ability to affect good in the world that going into politics would give, but would also be happy with a job that takes me all around the world, or as a prominent Federal judge.</p>
<p>Go to a college I love, join the PeaceCorps, get my JD/PhD. Become a professor or lawyer. Travel often. Attain fluency in French, Russian, Arabic, and German. Become an accomplished novelist (98 pages into my first). I want to marry and have kids. Living comfortably would be a nice bonus.</p>
<p>Mm, I’m not exactly sure what I want to do after college yet :P. I definitely want to accomplish something with my life, not money-wise, but more that there will be people who will be glad to have known me… I want to be able to leave behind something to the world that will be memorable or will improve people’s lives in some way.</p>
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