<p>As we are all waiting for the decisions to come or for those accepted ED: waiting for the day of immatriculation, I just wanted to know what you guys think/hope you are doing in like 10 years.</p>
<p>Gonna start:</p>
<p>Job-wise, I hope that I will have broken into the bulge bracket ibanking. Maybe I've even attended graduate school by that time and earn big bucks. Still, I am working 90+ hours and sacrifice my body with alcohol and coffee (hopefully no other drugs). Social life - well if you consider networking a social life, yes, I'll have lots, if not - there won't be any.</p>
<p>This job dominates my private life and I certainly won't have a wife or even children. My hobbies are golf, tennis from time to time and poker. There is some time for it during the summer break, when I plan to participate in the Cannonball or a similar event with my brandnew Ferrari. My suits cost 5000$, my swiss watch 20000. I know the key words in Chinese and Arabic due to my frequent stays in Hongkong and Dubai - the fastest growing place on earth. Lufthansa and British Airways have become my home, however I still travel business class.</p>
<p>My life becomes more and more intense and the hope for an early retirement keeps me alife. I'll have 10 more years in the ibanking sector and maybe work as consultant or private investor afterwards. My mind has not yet adapted to NYC nor the dark sides (not those mentioned aboth) which come along in my job. My life passes rapidly, the years fly away. I have no soul left - not that I would have had much somewhen during my youth. It's what I've always wanted - I yearn for a beautiful, quite and peaceful residence in Kooralbyn, Queensland, Australia.</p>
<p>Who knows whether this will turn into reality, why not? IT's a bright future. :D Now tell me about you.</p>
<p>you have really thought this thing through.....wow!</p>
<p>I have a lot of plans for my future and all. I just cant seem to document it on the internet. But I give you props for thinking this through. </p>
<p>Why do you <em>desire</em> to have <em>no soul</em>?? Don't suck yourself up into work and forget the purpose of life, which is basically happiness, success, and love. This is my advice Dave.</p>
<p>There you go, the optimistic davidalex we know :D</p>
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<p>I know it's kinda irrelevant but this part reminds me of the movie "Click", don't know why :D</p>
<p>10 years from now... hmmmm???? That would make me like ~30 years old? Heehee I'd probably already have a family, cute kids, cool job, nice house blah blah... Oh, and this might sound stupid but I really want a place where I can drown myself in money like Uncle Scrooge McDuck lol...</p>
<p>Hee hee gotta go back to my RD apps though lol, I still have apps due on 1/15.</p>
<p>Me, Abhishiv Saxena, product of the finest university of world, Husband to a beautiful wife, former district collector, seated in this huge hall, portraits of Nehru and Gandhi all around me, with my head resting on my palm, waiting for being called up on the stage to be sworn in. Little had anyone expected that a 28 year old would have defeated a political mammoth with 50 years of political experience. But here I am, clad in whitest white Kurta-Payjama, repeating the oath I had a million times during Childhood. Oh! Thing turned out so fast..</p>
<p>As a child I had always dreamt of being a civil servant but thought little on what it would be like. Stupid-cum-corrupt politicians phoning you everyday, corrupt seniors forcing you to work on their directions, poor people coming to you in hope of help. Damn! I was so helpless! "If you can't beat them then join them", so here I am, addressing the these wild animals, also called journalist by some, after being sworn in, thinking on what next.</p>
<p>I want to write pages and pages of poetry and leave it upon my grave where it will discovered centuries later--and become the Catullus of my age, revealing the secrets of civilizations long past.</p>
<p>Whoa slow down yikes. Why do you want to throw yourself into such a stereotypical life like that David Alex? I mean I don't want to intrude or deflate your dreams at all, but still, you will discover at Princeton that many people here have more interests in their future than becoming rich and powerful. Greatness comes in many packages. </p>
<p>One could also say that the package laden with gold is also the heaviest one to carry.</p>
<p>Haha I really appreciate your worries about my soul and later life.</p>
<p>Now, I have to add something. What I have written was a nearly cynical and way over the top view of my future. I wanted to write something different from the stereotypical nice house, nice car, nice children stuff - guess it didn't work out ;) </p>
<p>Those who know me would rather describe me as focused than as hard-working and my party habits become more and more reknowed on here. :D Maybe I just wanted to write down this contrast between a job which you can barely break into due to the vast amount of contenders and its impact on your life. Don't worry about my optimism - I will have a bright and succesful life.</p>
<p>@ maddy: the thing with my soul is actually true. I know that you are a believer, I am not. I've encountered that life is much easier, that you are much happier if you set up your own ethics (I DO have strong ethics - but in parts they contradict our society) and arrange your life around yourself. While this might be thought to be egocentric, it gives me the power to question things and my friends don't mind.</p>
<p>Don't take me too serious; that's the worst thing you could ever do :D </p>
<p>PPS: I'm not interested in power...just money ;) We all need to find what makes us happy. I am searching for a life which pushes me to the limits at any time, because that's the only way to motivate myself. That's why I applied to Pton. Retirement is far away...</p>
<p>honestly, davidalex, I would be careful what you post, only because adcoms are known to come on these forums and its often not that hard to match CC posters to their apps. I'm not judging you, but whether you are serious about your post or not, I don't think it exemplifies what Pton is looking for in a person. As the saying goes, "to whom much is given, much is expected," - I think Pton is hoping its grads go on to make the world a better place, not just get rich...</p>
<p>If Princeton does not think that I fit their program, it's better for me not to matriculate there.</p>
<p>Let's face it: I believe that Pton fits me fantastically, just because I am a socially active, always happy and serene person (characterwise). I love Pton, but the adcoms are the ones who really know who fits. If they think that I am the wrong person - so be it. I haven't played me app the "safe" way, I was honest and put some answers down which are at the border. I certainly did not awake the impression that I am a conventional, hard-working student.</p>
<p>I'm not conventional, I don't fit into any pattern. I'm searching for the right college myself and they can help me. For me, they aren't a monster which I have to impress but a jury which judges me on a fair basis.</p>
<p>I perfectly agree with your saying, and as I wrote on my app; I desperately hope to return Pton's dedication to me as an applicant and maybe former student by breaking new ground (reworded - to lazy to quote the exact sentence). Who knows where I will be in 10 years? Nobody knows (as said I don't believe in god). Maybe I am working in a third world country; I've participated in an Africa Summit and was deeply impressed - still I cannot imagine myself working there, currently. </p>
<p>If you fear that I could "use" Pton only as steppingstone into Wall Street, you may be assured that this certainly is not the case. I don't apply to any of those other BB feeders (Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT) - Princeton fascinizes me. Part of this fascination is this commitment to the university and also its other students.</p>
<p>I am overwhelmed by the reactions this thread evokes - positively.</p>
<p>we only care about our fellow cc'ers.... :D lol;</p>
<p>Well yeah I respect your honesty about the conventional hardworking thing. Because frankly, I am also not that conventional hardworking person..lol Maybe that y princeton deferred both of us...;) lol.</p>