<p>you’re writing page 217 of 300.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>you can frame it as your current autobiography (up to age 17, 18, whatever you are) and discuss something you’ve already done.</p></li>
<li><p>you can frame it as your autobiography when you’re an old, greying man or woman, and discuss something that you hope to achieve (and preferably that would be something your education at penn would help with)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>either is perfectly acceptable.</p>