<p>I gotta admit, I have some kinda frivolous goals of my own that don't necessarily hurt anybody but sound really snobbish.</p>
<p>For one, I have an irrational fear of growing up to be unknown. Even if I get personal fulfillment out of whatever I work on, I feel like I NEED to make a contribution people will remember me for.</p>
<p>Plus, I don't want to stay in the U.S.A. very long after college. Our education, healthcare, and civil liberties (among other things) are clearly going down the drain. If I'm going to have a family, I'd rather start it somewhere like Sweden or Spain.</p>
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<p>Definitely with you there. That's why I somewhat 'crave' fame and being remembered, lol.</p>
<p>hm i have no idea what i want to do in the future
why not just live in the present! =P</p>
<p>idk I'd like to go to a good college....spend those four years just having fun and learning about things that interest me.
if I could do anything I'd like to be a successful fashion designer.
but since theres about a .0002 chance of that happening, idk. It'd be nice to work with design at some point. I'd also love to just be able to do historical research forever.... haha or work at an art gallery or something. I'd like to have enough money to be able to contribute to some sort of cause or at least spend some of my time doing volunteer work. </p>
<p>I definitely want to live in a city. </p>
<p>oh and I want to marry a british guy who sings and/or plays soccer. or just one thats really hot. preferably alex turner or jonathan rhys meyers.
If I had to settle for an american though, adam brody is my current fav.</p>
<p>I want to be the person who saves the world. There are too many humans, and the population will only increase for the next several decades. To exist sustainably, each of us would have to adopt a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. If you examine the population of the earth and a carbon footprint calculator, there are only so many acres to provide for so many people.</p>
<p>I want to be the person who starts the war, causes the famine, engineers the plague, masterminds the "disaster" that gives the human race a second shot at existing. Failing that, I'll become President of the US, and detonate a quantity of nuclear weapons with enough force to simulate a comet strike, flinging enough earth into the atmosphere to eradicate all higher life within months.</p>
<p>A lot more useful than "environmental research." I'm not the sort to prolong the inevitable. I much prefer to meet it head on.</p>
<p>"For one, I have an irrational fear of growing up to be unknown. Even if I get personal fulfillment out of whatever I work on, I feel like I NEED to make a contribution people will remember me for."</p>
<p>AMEN! i especially felt that way when I was younger cuz i saw a cartoon (jimmy neutron i think) that said something about being dust in the wind. I DON"T WANT TO BE DUST IN THE WIND! i would prefer to be remembered like somewhere in a textbook, i don't have to be a household name or anything, but it'd be nice to be remembered for your achievements/existence</p>
<p>Get into UF, get into med school, complete internship and residency and become an Obstetrician, get married sometime in there, have four kids two years apart each in my 30s, live in classic suburbia in a big nice brick or half brick house with a hugeee backyard, get out of all med school debt and everything, help my parents out and buy them houses near me (one each..). I also am going to own a million pets. I want a ball python, many shelter dogs and one Papillon, many shelter cats, turtles, a big fish tank, and maybe a rabbit or two.
:) sounds good to me!</p>
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that such a vast majority of our generation is preoccupied with the yuppie mentality of the 1980's -- go to an ivy, get a good job, nice house, nice car, big family, the whole nine yards, with "helping people" as a byproduct of their career. our generation can't keep going after that kind of life and expect the real problems i mentioned in my last post to be either solved automatically or removed from them. the lack of empathy just astonishes me.
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Hah, that's basically what I want to do. Although nice car isn't one of my specific goals, but I figure I'll get one anyway. Honestly I don't think I'd be good at solving most of the world's problems at all, therefore I shall make my money with what I hope to do which is bring new life into this world, and donate a good amount of $ to charities and different organizations to help the worlds problems and let those people work it out. I may not be directly helping starving people in other nations, but I'll be helping 'new' people and their parents, and the ones I love. I guess I'm one of those preoccupied with the yuppie mentality of the 80s.
Btw this wasn't to anyone in particular, just me rambling some more :)</p>
<p>Go to a good school for International Relations, International Finance, or a foreign language, get a successful job doing something I love, live in a big urban setting, or just outside a city.</p>
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<p>Thank goodness I don't care at all about society then! Like Faulkner said, I decline to accept the end of man. He will persevere and he will rise to meet the challenge and remain triumphant through his achievements. I don't care much for welfare, since that takes all the free will from charity, but if it's by my choice, I'm willing. Haha. I suppose I do feel a bit defensive with my ideal career, since it is mine. I hear all those stories about poverty-stricken children rising to achievement and recognition, and I can't help but want to make it a little easier for them. For them and the others who had the talent, but weren't lucky enough to make that ascension.</p>
<p>@kwu</p>
<p>I know! I hate to think of all those potentially brilliant minds, ready to strive higher and work harder, going to waste.</p>
<p>I want to marry my boyfriend and have a bunch of kids, both bio and adopted. I want to raise them in the Western Washington area, where I have lived my whole life, and teach high school band. I want to belong to a good, solid church and have the opportunity to go on lots of missions trips and take my kids because I feel it's an important experience for them to have.</p>
<p>On that note, I really wouldn't mind just going into missions full-time if that's what we end up feeling we should do, too. It just all depends.</p>
<p>bandnerd88, i agree wholeheartedly. with population growth the way it is, we've gotta spread the gospel of Islam as quickly as possible!</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>and trust me melancholydane, we as a species are obviously screwing up, but we shouldn't just taking the quick and easy way out like we have been for centuries. we're going to have a rude awakening whether we like it or not, so you'd be a lazy fool to assume we don't have the resources to dramatically soften the impact for millions of trapped people.</p>
<p>Go to New York. Marry Christian Slater. Die.</p>
<p>Oh, wait. I'm getting my life confused with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's again. Whoops.</p>
<p>Actually I want to go to college, major in international relations with a minor in French (or a double major) at a UC or some other good school, then go to graduate school abroad (Sciences Po? I think so), meet and marry some gorgeous guy and work for the UN or enter the foreign service, have 2 beautiful children and live happily ever after.</p>
<p>Get my undergrad in bio form UF,go to UF's med school,do my residency in peds in NY and fellowship iin neonatology.get married sometime during all of this.have my first kid about my last year of my fellow. Work in the NICU have an understanding husband and awesome competive swimming children(like their mom hehe) and drive around in my navigator,live in a big house,grow old with my man and never get sued for malpractice lmao.....sounds like a good life to me</p>
<p>-Get my degree in either English education or business...haven't decided.
-Marry that "special someone" and have a small family.
-Live in a nice house in the country.<br>
-Be happy and all that good stuff...</p>
<p>i would love to get accepted into either stanford/columbia (more stanford XD) to major in English, a Communications minor.
Get some rich people connections (it's amazing how pre-college life could actually influence the rest of it) and publish a book which becomes the next harry potter without selling out
become famous, marry someone extremely good looking, TALL (because i lack that and if i ever have kids i wouldn't want a guy to be short. no, no. that's cruel enough for a girl :P), preferably asian and very very sweet :)
have a nice life in california. vacation to europe every year, visit friends from around the world, etc.
and of course help the deprived living in africa. not being sarcastic.. i haven't kept up with sudan's genocides lately but im guessing they won't disappear and heal completely in the next 20 years so that's my cause, for sure. 6th grade project to write up everything about sudan that could be written up in a nice 2 page essay. as well as cook a meal. the method of picking countries was random, and i got africa every single time. the recipes and CIA World Factbook stuff is embedded in my head</p>
<p>or i could just live off my parents' money. but that's too stereotypically "rich kid" for me.</p>