<p>I don’t intend to be filthy rich – I intend to be a dirt-poor physics or mathematics (pendulum-ing between them) graduate student at a tech-y university (or at Oxford. On a Rhodes. Shut up.). And I want to work with CERN. 
(So, physics then. :p)</p>
<p>Although pretty much everyone I know tells me I ought to consider Law, I’m not really interested. (My physics teacher successfully talked me out of engineering, though. I’m honestly a better fit for theoretical science.)</p>
<p>I’m almost sure I want to do law. I can’t see myself doing anything else, as of now. :)</p>
<p>Not that it matters really. We’re all going to change immensely over the next few years. :)</p>
<p>I just might join you in the physics dept. Noldo. Not so much the math though, I’m in awe of Mathematicians and their ilk…</p>
<p>I want to get filthy rich because of the power that’s associated with money. I actually want power, money is the surest way of getting it. <em>Grins Sinisterly</em></p>
<p>I don’t want to be dirt-poor either. I just want to be satisfied!</p>
<p>True story: when I was younger, I wanted nothing to do with this science lark (apart from wanting to go to MIT, but my brain was/is weirdly dissociative); I wanted to be a concert violinist. Good thing that one died. My violin-playing is rather atrocious (admittedly because I haven’t properly practiced in six years, but there you go). </p>
<p>I love math, have I mentioned? 
(Er, I love it enough to be reading it right now, and ‘doing math’ was on my EC list. I could probably place out of freshman year math at college, I’m not exaggerating.) </p>
<p>Money doesn’t matter all that much to me. If I have enough to indulge myself in books and more books, I’m happy. :p</p>
<p>I’ve been to the MIT and Harvard campuses as well. They didn’t really impress me much…they’re a bit too small and littered with dull, grey buildings. Although, there was a terrific wind tunnel on the MIT campus. Our guide told us that some enterprising MIT students had designed a way to play tetris on a 10-storey building by turning the lights in specific rooms on and off to form patterns. That is just really cool. 
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<p>Bunch of heartless materialists, aren’t we Lakshya? ;)</p>
<p>(Lest we appear callous, this is all sufficiently tongue in cheek. So there! :))</p>
<p>I don’t like power, it makes me nervous, I’m scared it’ll make me a bad person.</p>
<p>Tetris on buildings. AWESOME. (Damn it. I’m not supposed to like MIT.)</p>
<p>@Shrivats: Yep. And I’m not ashamed to say it. ;)</p>
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<p>No, it’ll make you able to do the things you want to do. I’m morally inept. I don’t understand good or bad. But being able to do what you want sounds good to me.</p>
<p>Begone thou S;</p>
<p>re: money; I’ll be satisfied with financial security so I can work for the UN or some manner of worldwide NGO without worry. :)</p>
<p>Darn you fuzzy, you’re not supposed to tell us these things about MIT! I’m reconciled, dammit! </p>
<p>Somehow, after the two great decisions this morn, it doesn’t really seem real that I’m going to receive 6 tonight :p</p>
<p>Heavens, we have a whole lot of politically-inclined people around here, don’t we? (Law is sort of political by proxy. Er, don’t look at me like that!)</p>
<p>Me, I want a Physics Nobel. (Okay, yes, fine, I’m exaggerating insanely – nowhere near bright enough or dedicated enough for that. But really, I just want to get my foot in the door re. research, and see where it goes from there.)</p>
<p>I’d like financial security, too. Enough to buy books, and go on vacation!</p>
<p>Pffft, who needs holidays when you have books?</p>
<p>Of course I’m politically inclined. I got accepted to Oberlin, didn’t I? Oberlin is one of the most politically active colleges in the country (and godless and individualistic. AND BEST)</p>
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<p>mmm… sounds good :D</p>
<p>Shri declares that he wants a Physics Nobel too! (maybe a shared one?)
(The ideal compromise isn’t it? Everlasting fame, a million $, and the fact that you’ve actually done something.)</p>
<p>I like holidays. And people. And books. And music, but who buys music?</p>
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<p>Anyone else planning to work on a campaign at some point in their lives?</p>