Life Plans
I’m thinking about what my life plans are. What is it I want for myself, and more importantly, how do I plan on achieving it? Of course, like everyone else, I can easily come up with a list of goals, but I don’t have a list of formative goals, ones that I can look at and say, these *must* be accomplished in order for my life to be satisfactory, as opposed to ones that I simply want to meet.
Actually, I can say that even though I don’t know the entire list of my formative goals, I’ve already missed one: attending a reputable school (esp. CalTech) for my undergraduate education. That might seem like a shallow goal, but I still think it was reasonable, considering what my motives were: first, it is indisputably true that attending say CalTech would ease my way into a reputable grad school, and second, I think that places like CalTech would be more conducive to my meeting similar minded people who could help me in my career and academic goals. So definitely, one of my new formative goals is to attend a reputable grad school, for much the same reasons. To that end, I *need* to start the application process this summer!
Another goal on my list is to get into shape. Not only because I’ll look and feel better, as the cliche goes, but also because the process will necessarily strengthen my self-control, and break my bad eating habits.
The only other goal I can think of is to fall deeply into love, and spend the rest of my life so. This is one goal that I don’t think can be worked towards– or at least, meeting the right person can’t be worked towards. That is pure chance. But I can work on making myself a more desirable person, physically and mentally. That is a task that I will enjoy, and am beginning in earnest today.
Possibly relevant posts:
- is there something [besides the obvious] wrong with me? (8/1/2001)
- On UCB (5/21/2004)
- The one-month gap (7/27/2006)