<p>Mine is to have a goal someday...</p>
<p>you? :D</p>
<p>Find to a college that meets this criteria: </p>
<p>-an endowment of over $500,000 per student
-a beautiful campus, nice dormrooms, temperate weather
-nice part of country
-amazing sociology or actuarial sciences program
-bike riding common
-near mountains or good hiking trails
-lots of free study abroad programs to the Northwest Territories of Canada
-parties but not too much drinking</p>
<p>But my more short term goal is to go to the U of MN PSEO for 11th and 12th grade.</p>
<p>And my other short term goal is to finish reading and taking notes for chapters 3, 4, and 5 in my geography text.</p>
<p>be valedictorian
go to harvard
go to John Hopkins medical school
become a distinguished neurosurgeon.
enjoy life...</p>
<p>Get a FUN, high-paying job
Make a nice family
Retain all mental acuity through old age</p>
<p>Publish something.
Learn two or three more languages.
Have my work shown in a gallery.
Bike across the country, or at least across several states (I'm not trying to fit in--I was raised by cycling nerds).
Live in a tiny log cabin in the Canadian Rockies.</p>
<p>1) get drunk
2) get laid
3) write a roguelike game
3.5) learn to program better
4) not fail my classes
5) discover the meaning of life
6) ascend all conducts on nethack.alt.org
7) have close friends who don't always want to talk to me
8) get a new bike
9) break a world record
10) be an interesting person.</p>
<p>Do something really stupid.</p>
<p>To get rich then blow my entire fortune on an edible gold leaf-covered gourmet ice cream sundae. With caviar in it.</p>
<p>On second thought, that's really nasty.</p>
<p>1) Become a test pilot
2) Be the first person on Mars
3) Buy my own Yatch.
4) Lots of other things.</p>
<p>1) To learn something about something. :D</p>
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7) have close friends who don't always want to talk to me
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<p>intriguing...</p>
<p>I'm not referring to you, silly. :p
(I'm referring to the girl who always insists on doing problem sets with me and makes me spend days on problem sets that should have taken two hours because we always get distracted and talk way too much. But otherwise, she's an awesome person and we spend large chunks of time together. Mostly doing problem sets. Or kinda doing problem sets.)</p>
<p>1) Get Ph.D. from Princeton
2) Write book on how to win at flip cup
3) Write book on how to win at beer pong
4) Win Fields Medal
5) Buy the Yankees</p>
<ol>
<li>Join the Army, Airforce, or Navy</li>
<li>Go to Harvard Law School</li>
<li>Get a Job</li>
<li>Marry</li>
<li>Have kids</li>
<li>Get them into college</li>
<li>Retire</li>
<li>Die</li>
</ol>
<p>Fight and beat up Chuck Norris.</p>
<p>dank08, the title says goal, not fantasy.</p>
<p>This means it has to be achievable.</p>
<p>1) get into Cornell or another of my top choices, then defer for 1-2 years so I can
2) get a job in professional dance company
3) go back to college, enjoy it and get a degree
4) get a really interesting and practical job
5) become multilingual
6) leave the world better than when I entered it</p>
<p>become head band director at my old HS (Forest Park HS, Forest Park GA)
go to japan and china</p>
<p>Ditto Kaznack:
Get a FUN, high-paying job
Have a nice family
Retain all mental acuity through old age</p>
<p>Also:
Travel to Tanzania and learn Swahili
Go to college :)
Have a pool in backyard</p>
<p>Above all:
Be happy.</p>
<p>Goals:</p>
<ul>
<li>Marry the love of my life.</li>
<li>Be blessed with loads of children. </li>
<li>Have a happy family.</li>
<li>Be really wealthy.</li>
<li>Really influential.</li>
<li>Give back to my parents for all they did for me. =)</li>
<li>Make family proud.</li>
<li>Enter politics.</li>
<li>Establish new family "dynasty" of our great nation (i.e. the Kennedys)</li>
</ul>
<p>ABOVE ALL, BE HAPPY! =)</p>