Think Back to Age 8...

Sea Legs · 06-09-2009, 12:35 AM

...where did you WANT to go to college?

hadooken212 · 06-09-2009, 12:47 AM

I wanted to be a fireman

tomjonesistheman · 06-09-2009, 12:56 AM

I didn't even think about any of this. I only remember my mom always mentioning "Hah-vahd"

sqdwfe13 · 06-09-2009, 01:15 AM

I probably wanted to go to Harvard.

Junie · 06-09-2009, 01:17 AM

Princeton
(it's 30 min away)

Then I watched Legally Blonde and switched to Harvard.

Poseidenj · 06-09-2009, 01:21 AM

I didn't even know about college when I was 8.

sg12 · 06-09-2009, 01:26 AM

Stanford cuz of my friend's mom and john elway. Still do lol.

Millancad · 06-09-2009, 01:51 AM

Probably Cornell (mother's alma mater), Tuskegee (father's alma mater), or Yale (where my grandfather has said I'll go since I was born). And maybe Xavier, since it's right next to my house.
I think really, when I was 8 I was in my "when I grow up I want to be nothing" stage.

Vernalagnia · 06-09-2009, 01:54 AM

I just knew that "It's not IF you go to college, it's WHEN"

iirc around the formative years Georgia Tech or UGA looked appealing, state high profile sports schools and all.

Senior0991 · 06-09-2009, 02:04 AM

I knew of three schools: Stanford, Harvard, and Northwestern.
I definitely wanted to go to Stanford for a very long time, but I don't remember if I wanted to go there/anywhere at age 8. Probably, though.

Gryffon5147 · 06-09-2009, 02:14 AM

I wanted to drive the subway...

Rixs · 06-09-2009, 12:01 PM

MIT. That was back in the days when I want to be an astronomer and a physicist... >>

QuasiProfound · 06-09-2009, 12:10 PM

I wanted to skip college and live life with the royalties of my first novel (in progress at the time). Good times.

rodney · 06-09-2009, 12:24 PM

Daughter wanted to be Steven Spielberg at age 8............I think she still does!

yawn · 06-09-2009, 12:34 PM

I'm pretty sure I couldn't even name a single college, let know what a college was.

I didn't even learn about MIT/Johns Hopkins/UC Berkeley/Cornell until late high school, and UPenn/Colombia/etc. until AFTER high school. I still don't know anything about Brown or Dartmouth. For most of my life, the only colleges I could name were Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, and possibly UCI.