It’s been forever since I’ve done one of these. I’ve also basically been studying since 7 am this morning, so I think I deserve a little break.<\/p>\n
1. What did you want to be when you grew up?<\/strong> Haha, at what point are we talking here? I went through various stages in my career ambitions. The major ones, as I recall (in some rough order) – paleontologist – marine biologist – lawyer – mathematician – psychologist – writer – journalist – linguist – chemist. There were, of course, weird one-off things, like jockey \ud83d\ude00 And in other news….<\/p>\n I need to make a list of things to do after exams:<\/p>\n Edit, sometime later: It’s been forever since I’ve done one of these. I’ve also basically been studying since 7 am this morning, so I think I deserve a little break. 1. What did you want to be when you grew up? Haha, at what point are we talking here? I went through various stages in my career ambitions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Did you follow through? If not, what happened?<\/strong> I don’t know. I haven’t thought seriously about being a paleontologist for good long time now. Ditto for marine biologist. As for the others, it was mostly either that I didn’t think I’d be much good at it or that it wasn’t really going to make me happy. Or, in the case of linguist, that I wouldn’t be able to parlay it into anything useful.
\n3. Is your life turning out the way you thought it would when you were a kid? If not, is it better or worse?<\/strong> Ah, it’s a little worse, I guess. I can’t really say much about it except that this is not what I’d expected. I don’t know where all my ambition went. I used to be so… get-up-and-go. Now I’m so … it-can-wait.
\n4. Paradoxes aside, if you could time-travel back to when you were 10 years old, what would you tell your 10-year-old self?<\/strong> Oh dear. I can’t believe that’s almost a decade ago! Um, probably not to take myself so seriously. XD I was a very serious kid in some ways. Not so much in others.
\n5. Do you think the child you were, would like the adult you’ve become?<\/strong> No, I’d hate me. I think I talk down to kids and I’m just no fun and … yeah. That, and the kid in me would totally have jumped into the Faculty of Arts feet first and taken Bio as my science requirement, forget Chem \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n
\nI realized that most of these things I need to do involve watching movies. I might as well add:<\/p>\n