http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/ :life is literature Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-80213 Shadiah Harvey Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:18:11 +0000 http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-80213 It's alittle funny how the post college student doesn't want to become a teacher. I remmber when I wanted to become a actress. Thing about that was; I couldn't act.Now I just want to be an educator. It’s alittle funny how the post college student doesn’t want to become a teacher. I remmber when I wanted to become a actress. Thing about that was; I couldn’t act.Now I just want to be an educator.

]]> http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-66949 Amanda Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:54:11 +0000 http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-66949 No, it turns out my understanding of science (and sciencey things like human anatomy and physiology) is just as shoddy as my grasp on long division. No, it turns out my understanding of science (and sciencey things like human anatomy and physiology) is just as shoddy as my grasp on long division.

]]> http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-66948 katherine Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:51:44 +0000 http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-66948 So...did it? So…did it?

]]> http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-65307 Amanda Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:39:03 +0000 http://www.400words.com/2008/10/31/things-i-wanted-to-be/#comment-65307 I remembering proudly announcing that I was going to become a Chartered Accountant, just like my Granddad. Everyone snickered and asked the ten-year-old me how I intended to reconcile my dreadful math skills with the demands of the job. Pfff, I assured them, once I was grown up, I would just know math, it would just happen. How else to explain why I sucked eggs at long division and wrestled with geometry, despite trying my very best? Ah-ha, I presumed, you get tall, you get body hair, you get to know math. It happens between being young and being old, like nature taking its course. I remembering proudly announcing that I was going to become a Chartered Accountant, just like my Granddad. Everyone snickered and asked the ten-year-old me how I intended to reconcile my dreadful math skills with the demands of the job. Pfff, I assured them, once I was grown up, I would just know math, it would just happen. How else to explain why I sucked eggs at long division and wrestled with geometry, despite trying my very best? Ah-ha, I presumed, you get tall, you get body hair, you get to know math. It happens between being young and being old, like nature taking its course.

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