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Post by Rubberneck on Feb 7, 2005 21:54:54 GMT -5
being a college student means making decisions that will usually have great effect on your future, so i've been thinking about what i want to do with my life lately and it just made me curious about the rest of you.
what are you doing right now in your life as far as preperation for the future (working, school, already have a career, etc)? what are you planning on doing for a career if you have not already established one? how is it that you justify devoting your life to this discipline? etc etc etc rant blah...
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Post by Evycakes on Feb 8, 2005 1:02:13 GMT -5
right now i am awaiting an acceptance letter to BCIT where i will taking Broadcasting
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Post by motherprussia on Feb 8, 2005 3:26:50 GMT -5
i try not to think about these things, but i tell inquisitive family members that i'll be a prof...english prof with a concentration on modern writing...
always thought there should be a class on "great books written in the last ten years" and i wouldn't include the da vinci code
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Post by tremulant on Feb 8, 2005 17:15:16 GMT -5
Although pursuing a career is skateboarding is my dream...with skateboarding progressing so rapidly, it's insane, it's impossible to go anywhere with it. I've travelled alot since I graduated 2 years ago, and I think it's time to go to university. What will I study?...I haven't decided yet. What should I go for???#nosmileys
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Post by CoKeS on Feb 8, 2005 18:58:23 GMT -5
Right now im going to school at Baruch which is in NYC and im studying journalism, which really isnt working out at this school because they're all about business and offer shit classes, so next year im transferring to Hunter College which is also in the city. and after college I plan on traveling and basically living a bohemian lifestyle for a little while. France and Iceland are first on my list...
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Post by Rubberneck on Feb 8, 2005 21:35:19 GMT -5
i'm a freshman at purdue university in good ole' Indiana. i came here undecided in my major, but the more contimplation i put into the idea, i think i want to go into environmental sciences. so i am in the midst of talking with indiana university about transferring for their school of environmental and public affairs back home in bloomington.
everyone is talking about the present/immediate future, but what do you want to get out of life? what do you want to do years down the road?
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Post by motherprussia on Feb 8, 2005 21:37:53 GMT -5
i'd like to write at least one fucking novel...complete one...and be moderately happy with it...
i'm also looking forward to recording with my band, which is scheduled to happen in less than two weeks...how exciting...
basically, i want to be my name on things i create/help create, if that makes any sense
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Post by CoKeS on Feb 8, 2005 23:04:05 GMT -5
selfish prick hehe
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Post by motherprussia on Feb 9, 2005 0:58:19 GMT -5
damn straight
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Post by Rubberneck on Feb 9, 2005 3:11:31 GMT -5
you make it sound as if you have attempted to write a novel before...run us through some concepts you've created for plots and whatnot. i've had a few ideas as of late for writing, but i don't think i have the patience and attention span that is necessary to keep a level of detail consistent throughout a whole book, so i'm thinking about starting this summer on a series of short stories.
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Post by motherprussia on Feb 9, 2005 3:52:06 GMT -5
oh, at least a half dozen attempts...and by now, i'm thinking that it's something that i'll have to do later in life for two reasons: 1. i don't have the discipline right now 2. i'll have more to say later on
my most recent attempt that got up to 30 000 words was about a bi-sexual guy in a midwest college town...yeah, not about me at all...
another one was a book about nothing, kinda like seinfeld, but the comparisons end there...it's called the world of harold and his lovely wife...there's about 50 000 words there, but i think it's shit and there's the last 10 000 words that i don't want to write...hard to explain really...
i started writing one about a terrorist attack on chicago and having the buildings crumble to the ground...then sept 11 happened...that was some freaky shit...i didn't continue that mainly because no one would believe that i wrote it because sept 11...
another one was about two "bad guys"/petty thefts who go around sneaking into houses and how they broke into a cop's house and stole some things that meant a lot to the cop, the cop freaks out, goes to chase down the "bad guys" who really aren't that bad and you realize the cop has some real issues...
my first attempt ever was about a kid in a wheel chair...it was silly but yeah, whatever...
i used to be able to write about anything, just using my imagination, then i got it drilled into my head that you need to write about "what you know" and since then it's been harder and harder for me to write because everything i write seems insignificant and lacking any real meaning...at least with poetry, i can complete thoughts, whether the poems are successful or not...
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Post by Castro on Feb 9, 2005 11:12:21 GMT -5
i would like to enter the music industry making ambient music as a solo artist - i think i could make it, but i really dont know
i would also like to write novels, and i'm writing a few as i speak. basically, if a song conjures up a strong image, i'll try and relate it to a particular novel i'm writing, and thats what i do for all the chapters. quite fun really cuz i dont know where the story will actually go
those to proffesions are my passions in life and if i dont get a career in either of them, i will still continue them as a hobby.
i'm just assuming that if i do make it, it will be after uni, so right now i'm aiming to study astronomy at uni, cuz i love learning about stars, planets etc
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Post by Rubberneck on Feb 9, 2005 17:49:06 GMT -5
one of my ideas for a short story/book, and i'm sure that this has been done before, is about the second coming of Christ...only he has already been here for decades. Christ returns to earth, but even his voice is drowned out by the greed and hatred of today's world. i picture him as one of the rambling religious freaks in New York or another large, industrial city. so i figure a protagonist crosses paths with Christ, maybe he is an ex-Christian turned atheist and is somehow convinced that this poor fool is actually the son of God...
i don't know where it would go from there, especially without sounding like Miracle on 24th street, or whatever that santa clause movie was called. i don't know what the plot would be, who other characters would be, and what kind of resolution it would have, but it wouldn't be the "man finds himself in Christ and Christ is liberated by the man's inner-goodness and goes on to fulfill his destiny in bringing evil to justice" conclusion that everyone would hope for...i dunno...i'm just doomed to never be able to write or finish an idea for that matter.
i did come up with an idea for a terrible horror movie called "Hellavator" that would kick ass...i love aweful horror movies...
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Post by tremulant on Feb 9, 2005 22:09:30 GMT -5
Hellavator...pure gold!
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Post by sez on Feb 12, 2005 7:32:05 GMT -5
I don't have a clue what I'm doing in life or where my life is going.
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Post by bittersweet on Feb 12, 2005 14:37:40 GMT -5
aspirations....Hm. I must admit, I'd also like to be a writer. But...I've always had it drilled (more like bludgeoned) into my head that this isn't practical. Screw practical. Why do something you absolutely despise for the rest of your life? And on the topic of writing things....The other day, I had a paper due that day, in fact, two hours from when I started it, and....I wrote about a superhero named Mohawk Man and his sidekick Fudge the Flying Marshmallow. You don't find out Fudge is homosexual until almost the end, when he barely escapes being turned into an ice cream sundae before he and Mohawk Man try to escape the toy boat they're on. (That just happens to be in the middle of a bath) Quite interesting. I don't think I could ever write a novel, especially with that kind of thinking. I'm sure someone's done that before.
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Post by tremulant on Feb 13, 2005 2:15:11 GMT -5
That was hilarious, do us all a favor and keep writing!
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Post by Rubberneck on Feb 13, 2005 14:17:52 GMT -5
haha...in my middle school creative writing class i wrote a story about a ninja who seeked revenge for the murder of his family by the lizard king, who was NOT jim morrison in this instance, but the leader of the reptilian clan. the only problem was that, in order to SEE the lizard king and his assailants, the ninja had to eat magic mushrooms that he found in the forest. there is no way that that story would have passed, but fortunately my teacher was a big hippy and let it slide.
...the one about the little girl who received a 3-legged midget in a box for her birthday gift, however, had to be changed to a puppy...it was lame
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Post by bittersweet on Feb 13, 2005 15:17:44 GMT -5
heeeheeeheee three legged midgett....heeeheeeheee...and yeah. anything in a story that has to be changed to a puppy to make someone else happy IS lame...[glow=red,2,300]TEXT[/glow] (sorry if this comes out all retardationed, im trying to figure out what all these...buttongiggers are...)
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Post by bittersweet on Feb 13, 2005 15:26:17 GMT -5
how do you put a pic at the end???  |
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Post by tremulant on Feb 14, 2005 11:12:58 GMT -5
bittersweet is a freakin riot!
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Post by Castro on Feb 22, 2005 11:40:35 GMT -5
i've ordered a grade 6 guitar book. i've no idea how hard it'll be but grade 5 i found fairly easy a year ago. i'm aiming to get a really high grade partly cuz it helps me in my application for uni, but also so i can flaunt it
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