First-Year Student Journals : Robert : Profile

Profile

Hometown: Austin, Texas

High school: Dripping Springs High School

Facts about your family: 1 sibling, female, 16 years old. 2 parents: 1 male, 1 female, ages 46; female employed as teacher for Dripping Springs Independent School District, male employed as Systems Analyst for City of Austin Purchasing Department.

Why did you choose to attend The University of Texas at Austin?
Great academic reputation, competitive tuition.

What is your major?
Philosophy and Classics, possibly Anthropology as well.

What do you want to do when you graduate from the university?
I want to go into the military, to learn the trade of mechanic for four years, as well as to accrue money for graduate school of some sort. My decision on the military is only in part financial, but the other part was made clear to me by the reading of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, in that only those who know trades are able to be independent of regional and economic concerns, hence the idea to be a mechanic. I hope to put myself through graduate school of some sort by supporting myself with my trade as well as the GI Bill. What I study there could be anything, but the current idea is to do either Philosophy, Law or a joint program in the two. This could lead me to be a politician, a judge, a lawyer, a writer, a law professor or a philosophy professor. The real point of the above is simply to limit myself as little as possible while still specializing through undergraduate and graduate degrees.

If you had to choose one thing about yourself to share with the university's Web audience, what would it be?
My main objective in life is for people to be able to read a potential biography of me and laugh out loud at the situations presented and the objectives achieved.



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	Profile Hometown: Austin, Texas High school: Dripping Springs High School Facts about your family: 1 sibling, female, 16 years old. 2 parents: 1 male, 1 female, ages 46; female employed as teacher for Dripping Springs Independent School District, male employed as Systems Analyst for City of Austin Purchasing Department. Why did you choose to attend The University of Texas at Austin? Great academic reputation, competitive tuition. What is your major? Philosophy and Classics, possibly Anthropology as well. What do you want to do when you graduate from the university? I want to go into the military, to learn the trade of mechanic for four years, as well as to accrue money for graduate school of some sort. My decision on the military is only in part financial, but the other part was made clear to me by the reading of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, in that only those who know trades are able to be independent of regional and economic concerns, hence the idea to be a mechanic. I hope to put myself through graduate school of some sort by supporting myself with my trade as well as the GI Bill. What I study there could be anything, but the current idea is to do either Philosophy, Law or a joint program in the two. This could lead me to be a politician, a judge, a lawyer, a writer, a law professor or a philosophy professor. The real point of the above is simply to limit myself as little as possible while still specializing through undergraduate and graduate degrees. If you had to choose one thing about yourself to share with the university's Web audience, what would it be? My main objective in life is for people to be able to read a potential biography of me and laugh out loud at the situations presented and the objectives achieved.