<p>So, tell me your life plans. Do you plan to graduate and get a job right away? In what? Do you plan to travel? Fight in the military? Live in the wilderness by yourself? Become a wrestler? Own an egg factory? Do you plan to get married? With another man? Another woman? A man and a woman and a dog? Do you plan to become famous or infamous or just another boring joe? It's up to you, and I can make your biggest wishes come true. For I am Santa's brother. He may give you gifts on your wishlist but I give you wishes from your giftlist. Let me know.</p>
<p>Phase 1: Collect underpants.</p>
<p>Phase 2: ?</p>
<p>Phase 3: PROFIT.</p>
<p>I am going to finish my BA in poli sci and then go straight to law school, become a civil rights or disabilities attorney, and work for a non-profit. I hope to serve people with learning disabilities and my hope is to start a national organization for americans with dyscalculia.</p>
<p>BUT, if I am able to get a job with a livable wage straight after graduation (in poli sci… haha) then I will put off law school til I am in my 30’s or 40’s to lessen the chances of me working 15 hour days when I have small children. Since I plan to get married within two or three years of finishing undergrad, it would suit my mommying instincts to wait until the kids are older to start law. But I have quite a bit of student debt, so “livable” wages may not be feasible until after I go to law school and get on income contingent repayment until my balance is forgiven for public services. </p>
<p>I also want two dalmatians, a pit bull, a golden retriever, and my bf INSISTS we get a cat and a turtle. And I want like 5 kids, and a house, and a yard, with a garden.</p>
<p>If I get BF, one kid, one dog, and a rented house I’ll be content, though. As long as we can afford to pay our bills I can live.</p>
<p>Hey Santa’s brother… I want to win the lottery.</p>
<p>Make it so.</p>
<p>Oh, man, make my wishes come true!!</p>
<p>I want to finish undergrad first off, so I’ll be out when I’m 20. Then I want to head on to grad school (not sure about a break between them, but it wouldn’t be long) and get my Ph.D. Not entirely sure where I’d want to research, but I’m thinking of Centers for Disease Control or National Institutes of Health. My overall goal is to get into AIDS research. Then I’ll cure it and win lots of awards and recognition and all that jazz… as if.</p>
<p>On the personal side: I’d like to meet a nice girl by the time I leave college and hopefully stick with her for life. We’ll become old and kooky together and be an adorable old couple. And we’ll have lots of pets: cats, dogs, lizards, ferrets, whatever. Possibly adopt a kid at some point, but I’m not sure about that.</p>
<p>Oooooooh I want a ferret.</p>
<p>Academic-- I wanna land a reasearch position next quarter. Pump up my GPA to insanely high levels so I get into the honors society! Kill the GRE and go to MIT for grad school in Engr’ing hopefully with an AWESOME scholarship </p>
<p>Personal–Find a superlative girlfriend (in every aspect), land stable job, grow tall, and most importantly, be happy in life!</p>
<p>2012 - Graduate with an ASN, pass NCLEX-RN, spend summer working at a camp or abroad.</p>
<p>2013 - Graduate with a BSN and work in a hospital for a couple of years.</p>
<p>2015 (or somewhere around then) - Get a job as a nurse in a developing country, Haiti if possible depending on the situation.</p>
<p>Get married and have children by 2020.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Finish my degree in philosophy</p></li>
<li><p>Go to a top law school</p></li>
<li><p>Practice civil rights law and maybe work at the ACLU (Live comfortably; <em>Maybe</em> get married)</p></li>
<li><p>Get a PhD in philosophy</p></li>
<li><p>Teach philosophy, write books, advance anarchism, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Die an atheist. No changing my mind last minute because I’m scared.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>^ wow.</p>
<p>what do you expect to gain from two degrees in philosophy and a law degree when you’re so closeminded about being an atheist and an anarchist? not only will you be learning about deism and religious philosophers, but you’ll also be a lawyer in the system that you apparently hate so much to be an anarchist.</p>
<p>people like you give philosophy majors a bad rep.</p>
<p>“you’re so closeminded about being an atheist and an anarchist”</p>
<p>And you’re close-minded about me being a close-minded, atheist, anarchist…</p>
<p>Seriously though, its not wise to derive something so strong from a post on a message board. Especially <em>that</em> post…</p>
<p>And thanks, but I know what I’ll be learning about… and I’ll be defending civil rights (I don’t see how that contradicts my belief in anarchy)…</p>
<p>I want to work in Santa’s Toyshop</p>
<p>you said you will advance anarchism until you die as an atheist… how in ANY way is that not close minded? don’t even act like you’re not closeminded, it’s not that wise to pretend to be something you’re not ;)</p>
<p>you’re an “anarchist” but you wanna be a lawyer as a role in our government. you want to defend peoples civil rights which are protected by our… GOVERNMENT. if you can’t see the contradiction, maybe you should take more logic courses lol</p>
<p>oh these armchair philosophers really get to me.</p>
<p>by the way, you say you wanna be living comfortably. unfortunately, your law school debt combined with the low income of public defenders will ruin this dream of yours.</p>
<p>reality check?</p>
<p>I WILL develop a CURE for AIDS</p>
<p>^ wow, you need to relax and stop attacking other people’s life goals one by one and explaining how they will fail…not cool </p>
<p>anyway…I don’t have definite career plans. right now i’m double majoring chemistry/neural science. I’m interested in neurological research, so I might go into medicine or grad school for neurobiology. I’m also interested in writing, and a huge goal would be writing a science book (not research book, a more “fun” book for the average person because so many non-science people are fascinated by neuroscience but know little about it). </p>
<p>I’d like to continue living in NYC while I’m very young, and eventually move back to the coast (anywhere on the eastern seaboard) after that. I grew up by the ocean and have a hard time being land-locked.</p>
<p>Also want to make some major sailling trips. The furthest i’ve sailed by myself is Florida 
I’m sailing to Ireland this summer with my brother! 
ahh i’m nervous about that! not used to such long trips</p>
<p>Oh boy, I’m glad we have you as a new member. Okay, one by one…</p>
<p>“you said you will advance anarchism until you die as an atheist… how in ANY way is that not close minded?”</p>
<p>I am an anarchist and an atheist. Does that mean I am close-minded by definition? </p>
<p>The obvious assumption was that my beliefs will go unchanged. They very well could change, but they haven’t yet. It’s just clumsy to say “If my beliefs don’t change, I will advance anarchism, etc.” in a thread where we share our life plans (which you have yet to do).</p>
<p>“you want to defend peoples civil rights which are protected by our… GOVERNMENT”</p>
<p>Non sequitur. I believe in human rights, so I want to defend human rights.</p>
<p>“you’ll also be a lawyer in the system that you apparently hate so much to be an anarchist.”</p>
<p>See, you handed me my belief in the first place. You are criticizing a belief that <em>you</em> projected upon me.</p>
<p>“by the way, you say you wanna be living comfortably. unfortunately, your law school debt combined with the low income of public defenders will ruin this dream of yours.”</p>
<p>What lead to all the rude comments? Bad day or something? Who are all these “arm chair philosophers” that give other philosophers “bad reps”? It all seems a bit odd.</p>
<p>Edit: Was directed at “asdfgh1234”</p>
<p>Thanks Alix :)</p>
<p>Alix, I hope you intend to share stories about that Ireland trip and perhaps pictures. The ocean scares the crap out of me, although I am able to enjoy going to the beach now, I CAN’T IMAGINE sailing that far. You and your brother are lunatics and I want to hear all about it so I can live vicariously in your lunacy. :P</p>
<p>Live on a commune, become a hermit, be happy (but not necessarily in that order).</p>
<p>become the best damn male stripper central canada has ever seen</p>
<p>to arachnophobia,
i lived in a commune for a year and damn, it was tough. I admire your goals!</p>