{"id":31683,"date":"2006-04-03T11:17:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T11:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/04\/03\/what-seventh-grade-students-want-to-be-when-they-grow-up\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T11:17:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T11:17:04","slug":"what-seventh-grade-students-want-to-be-when-they-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060403-04\/?p=31683","title":{"rendered":"What seventh-grade students want to be when they grow up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another episode in the sporadic series on the wisdom of seventh graders: The topic this time is &#8220;What do you want to be when you grow up?&#8221; The students really enjoyed this topic because, as one young man put it, &#8220;I could write a book about myself!&#8221; Here are what some students had to say. Spelling mistakes are intact, but ellipses are editorial. (I have provided tooltips to assist non-native English speakers. Actually, even native English speakers may have trouble with some of the spelling errors&#8230;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The best job in the world would be a dog consultant. <\/li>\n<li>I also watch the history channel     because you can never know too much about history. <\/li>\n<li>My talent would be having good     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"slang: charisma, luck\">     mojo<\/span>. <\/li>\n<li>In science I am achieving an easy     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"the highest mark\">     A<\/span>, and hardly     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"trying very hard\">     giving it my all<\/span>. <\/li>\n<li>I like to blow up stuff. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"Counseling\">Couciling<\/span>     teens is a low stress job, and you get paid a lot of money. <\/li>\n<li>I am very interested in rockets and their     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"propulsion\">purpltion<\/span>     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"systems\">sistims<\/span>. <\/li>\n<li>Also my dad does not believe I will be able to become a dentist     so my goal is to prove him wrong and become a dentist. <\/li>\n<li>I want to be a     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title='architecture (should be \"architect\")'>arcetecture<\/span>. <\/li>\n<li>Theories can turn into     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title='\"facts\", but \"farts\" changes the meaning'>     farts<\/span>     by proving it. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been called short and weird,     but no one has ever called me chicken.     In fact, if I were a chicken every chicken would call me     &#8220;<span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"chicken noise\">backa<\/span>&#8221; or     &#8220;<span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"chicken noise\">cluck-chirp<\/span>&#8220;. <\/li>\n<li>(From a male student)     Also another reason good pay is important is because     if I get married and have kids&#8230; I want to buy them nice things.     For example, a wedding ring, dress, food&#8230; an alarm system&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>There is no better job     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"than\">then<\/span>     getting paid to argue. <\/li>\n<li>(About being a doctor)     You get to help them by saving their life     or getting a lego out of their throat and are rewarded with joy.         <\/li>\n<li>I would slide down the helicopter ropes and     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"slang: barge in\">     bust in<\/span>     to save the day. <\/li>\n<li>Creating is creativity. <\/li>\n<li>There is     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title='\"no\", but \"now\" changes the meaning'>     now<\/span>     whining or crying in 5th grade. <\/li>\n<li>I have     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title='grammar: should be \"gone\"'>     went<\/span> to every     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"Husky, the local college team\">     Huskie<\/span> home game in the past 5 years. <\/li>\n<li>I wanted to be a writer, but writing this paper makes me think I shouldn&#8217;t. <\/li>\n<li>I will understand that no matter the child,     the punishment will fit the crime.  No student will be left behind. <\/li>\n<li>I have the natural ability to become frustrated. <\/li>\n<li>I will have a sufficient retirement if I don&#8217;t go bankrupt. <\/li>\n<li>(About being an architect)     Make everything extremely simple&#8230;     architects have to deal with the     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"puny\">     puenie<\/span> minded construction worker around them. <\/li>\n<li>My ways of teaching will make life and school a lot easier,     I will clearly write my name on the whiteboard,     in purple ink and I will have a neon green poster board     with the rules written on it. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Bonus misspellings:     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"emotional\">     omocinal<\/span>,     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"nurture\">     nurcher<\/span>,     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"passion\">     pation<\/span>,     <span style=\"cursor: default;border-bottom: dotted .75pt red\" title=\"masseuse\">     mussuse<\/span>.\n (And I thought I didn&#8217;t have to say this, but apparently I do: These are just the funny-bad sentences. There were of course plenty of well-written essays, but they&#8217;re not as funny.)<\/p>\n<p> Bonus explanation: In <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/12\/06\/500514.aspx\"> the previous series of essays on humanity&#8217;s greatest invention or discovery<\/a>, one of the responses was &#8220;marrying a princess&#8221;. I had to ask my friend for an explanation of that one. &#8220;Well, one student decided to ignore the assigned topic and instead wrote a fairy tale about a beautiful princess who gets married.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another episode in the sporadic series on the wisdom of seventh graders: The topic this time is &#8220;What do you want to be when you grow up?&#8221; The students really enjoyed this topic because, as one young man put it, &#8220;I could write a book about myself!&#8221; Here are what some students had to say. 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