<p>What do you do you hope for? What are your goals in life? What do you want to be when you grow up?</p>
<p>I just want to get a sense of the diversity of people.</p>
<p>I want to be a medical researcher and do something awesome for society. I’m just not really sure what yet though. :P</p>
<p>Haha this is a good post, considering how many of the schools essays are about this.<br>
I would like to study cognitive science and dispel the Chinese room argument once and for all! I’d also like to be fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean (personal goal) and help adopted kids from China become more comfortable with who they are.
Um…I don’t really think my goals are that impressive - they don’t really include saving humanity and they really should.</p>
<p>I want to take over the world.</p>
<p>What is the Chinese room argument? 
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<p>i wanna get into a prep school 
… for now</p>
<p>@pulsar - It’s this philosophy of mind argument that supports that syntax is not sufficient for semantics…you can look it up. </p>
<p>@heps1996 and SuperMarioBros - AGREED. too bad prep schools won’t take that for an answer. :(</p>
<p>I’ve gone through so many phases over the last few years. I want to experience spiritual enlightenment, write a novel that will capture a new vein of human experience, help orphans in China, impact society and culture so much I will be remembered forever…</p>
<p>The truth? Now I just want to be happy in life.
Sometimes, it’s all that’s important.</p>
<p>I want to become a chemist for Bayer, and discover a cure for AIDS.
Or, design some awesome Volkswagens.
Yeah, I also want to enrich the minds of youth by becoming a Dean at Waldsee, and instilling an interest in German in kids that has been shown to me there.</p>
<p>Complicated answers here! Haha this was exactly what I wanted to hear. Keep it up!</p>
<p>@beatlesforever- I did not get that… It’s too sophisticated for my mind… No, just kidding.</p>
<p>Yes supermariobros, I’m sure everybody on this forum wants to get into a prep school. I know I do. But I agree with intrinsically the most. I want to be happy in life. More than that though, I want to make others happy. That’s me. I’m keeping it simple for now. :]</p>
<p>But still…
Raise your hand if you want to do something amazing for this society/be remembered throughout the world! <em>raise hand</em></p>
<p><em>raise hand</em> :D</p>
<p><em>Raises hand</em></p>
<p>Nah, I would prefer that society does something amazing for ME. 
jkjk <em>raises hand</em></p>
<p>My ideal career hasn’t been invented yet…</p>
<p>To become a successful entrepreneur and/or businessperson in my chosen field. </p>
<p><em>Raises hand like the obnoxious kid who even the teacher finds annoying</em></p>
<p><em>raises hand</em></p>
<p>You can’t be compassionate unless you’re truly happy. Though sometimes it’s tough to be.</p>
<p>Even those who sacrificed the most for society were still happy people who instilled hope in others.</p>
<p><em>raises hand</em></p>
<p>Ehh, guess I’m more on the non-traditional side but…I’m going to write/direct/and produce feature films 
I live to tell stories</p>
<p><em>shyly keeps hand down</em>
I want to join the CIA which sadly means that most of the work I do will not go down in the history books and I won’t be able to take credit but that’s fine with me because I just want to help the people who can’t help themselves that is really my dream job and I also would like to write a teen fiction novel somewhere along the way
I’m happy that everyone wants to do different things and it’s not like at my school where everyone either says “who cares” or “a doctor cause my parents are forcing me to” plus what you guys said about being happy with life is something I completely agree with</p>
<p>My goals are to major in English, then become a writer.</p>
<p>My goal? Pretty far fetch but I really want to work for NASA.</p>
<p>In a perfect world, I would be a teacher or a librarian and a sometimes activist, but because I’m logical I guess that I should be a lawyer.</p>