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Goals from past years: then and now
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Sep 25 17:36 UTC 1994 |
Going through my dad's filing cabinet yesterday, looking for
something completely different, I came across a letter from my sixth grade
teacher. "Dear parents," it said, "On the second to last day of school
the kids wrote some of their goals, predictions, and hopes for the future.
We sealed them and agreed that they would not be opened until they were
in grade twelve. Could you please put the attached goals away where they
may be found years from today." I had a vague recolection of the
assignment, but I really couldn't remember what I had written. Since I am
now in twelfth grade, I decided then was as good a time as any to open it,
and it was a bit of a surprize. My goals were to be like Dave (my teacher
at the time) except not teach, to be awesome, to get a PhD in mowing lawns
(just kidding), and to program computers.
This reminded me of how much I had changed since then, and yet
that there was some stuff that was the same. Having not teaching in my
first goal now seems strange, since teaching is waht I want to spend my
life doing, but there are certainly some things that Dave did that I would
do with my classes. Being awesome was sort of a collective goal of my
friends at that age, and isn't really something that matters to me too
much now. I do still mow the lawn when it needs it, but that one was so
obviously a bad joke that I won't go into analizing it. Then there is
programming computers. I had just started playing around with basic on my
Atari 800 XL at that point, and was having lots of fun with it. While
I've never gotten into any sort of advanced programming, making computers
do things is still something I enjoy doing.
What were your goals when you were younger? How closely have you
followed them? Does it now seem strange that you would ever want to do
any of those things? Are there any goals you had then that you absolutely
detest now? What do you think your former goals say about you now?
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eeyore
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response 1 of 104:
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Sep 26 02:56 UTC 1994 |
wow, the first!
actually, for many years, ive wanted to be a landscape architect. i don't
know why, but i'm sure that it has a lot to do with the fact that i love
plants.
as for my goals, many of them were trivial. there was a group of us who
all swore to get laid on our 16th birthday. (none of us did). somehow, i
never really made a lot of major goals. all of the ones seem, at least
now, small, trivial, and insignificant. i did, of course, say that i am
going to make a differance in this world. hopefully, that will be a goal
that i will be able to keep in later years.
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dang
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response 2 of 104:
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Sep 26 18:39 UTC 1994 |
Gee, I never had the goal to get laid on my 16th birthday. :) Seriously,
ever since third grade when I had an awesome teacher who's hobby was
science, I have wanted to be a scientist. Just the vague "scientist", but
I was interested in lasers, and many other things, all of which have
turned out to be physics. So, ever since third grade, I've wanted to be a
physicist. And, I still do. Miracles do happen.
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facelift
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response 3 of 104:
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Sep 26 23:51 UTC 1994 |
Well, oddly enough, when I was young I wanted to be a rock star. But I always
imagined myself as a Van Halen-esque rock start instead of the Black Flag,
pist & broke, punk rocker I've become. Strange how musical tastes change. I
figure I won't be into this kind of music much longer.
I also wanted to be a basketball player when I was younger, but I soon
learned that I'd be lucky if I made the average male height. Scrapped that.
My goal now is to do something in the field of psychology, but not long
ago, I had no idea what psychology was.
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eeyore
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response 4 of 104:
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Sep 27 02:32 UTC 1994 |
you can be whatever you want to be. if you do not know what it is, read...
find...research....you can find it thorough very simple every day objects
and ideas...
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anne
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Sep 27 18:01 UTC 1994 |
What were my goals? At one point I wanted to be an OBGYN, but ?I got over it
when I found out how long I would be in school- studying a science of all s.
That just isn't me. So then I decided to be a psychologist, and this lasted
until last term, when I decided that I didn't want to do that either. Now I
want to be a book editor, and eventually publish my own books. Although, I've
always wanted to write, and publish, my own books.
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eeyore
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response 6 of 104:
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Sep 28 13:23 UTC 1994 |
i've always wanted to be a landscape architect, with brief interludes
of art history, and archeology....
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facelift
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response 7 of 104:
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Sep 28 20:03 UTC 1994 |
What's an obgyn?
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eeyore
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response 8 of 104:
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Sep 29 14:51 UTC 1994 |
obstitrician/gynocologist.
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anne
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response 9 of 104:
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Oct 1 03:22 UTC 1994 |
yep
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eeyore
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response 10 of 104:
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Oct 2 15:12 UTC 1994 |
nope, never had a yen t be one'a dem....
of course, i refuse to be somehting that i won't go to anyway...
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anne
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response 11 of 104:
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Oct 2 17:01 UTC 1994 |
Well, I thought it would be cool to work with babies, that and I would prefer
to go to a female obgyn- I thought others might too. Male doctors- nope
just won't go to a male doctor... not for that stuff.
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facelift
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response 12 of 104:
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Oct 2 20:51 UTC 1994 |
I thought an obgyn was a thing from Dungeons & Dragons.
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gerund
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response 13 of 104:
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Oct 3 01:35 UTC 1994 |
You never know.
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eeyore
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response 14 of 104:
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Oct 3 13:35 UTC 1994 |
yeah, male obygyns just aren't cool. it's bad enough that i'm supposedto have
a female digging up there, but a male...no thanx!
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anne
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response 15 of 104:
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Oct 4 16:57 UTC 1994 |
emotion seconded! (or was I the first to state it... <grin>)
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eeyore
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response 16 of 104:
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Oct 4 18:21 UTC 1994 |
who knows....
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dang
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response 17 of 104:
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Oct 5 17:21 UTC 1994 |
The Shadow knows!
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anne
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response 18 of 104:
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Oct 5 17:46 UTC 1994 |
yes, but will the shadow tell?
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dang
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response 19 of 104:
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Oct 6 19:57 UTC 1994 |
Of course not! That would spoil the suspense.
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eeyore
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response 20 of 104:
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Oct 6 22:40 UTC 1994 |
daniel.......
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anne
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response 21 of 104:
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Oct 7 02:52 UTC 1994 |
<anne laughs>
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flem
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response 22 of 104:
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Oct 9 21:44 UTC 1994 |
<flem wonders if he should mention that his dad is an ob/gyn>
The only definite goal I can think of is that I will, at some point in my
life, learn to play jazz well on at least one instrument. There are vague
others, but.
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anne
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response 23 of 104:
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Oct 10 23:26 UTC 1994 |
flem- go ahead, mention it- but I won't go to him... <grin>
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eeyore
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response 24 of 104:
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Oct 11 16:25 UTC 1994 |
hate to break it to ya, but i won't either....
:)
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