What seventh-grade students want to be when they grow up
Another episode in the
sporadic series on the wisdom of seventh graders:
The topic this time is
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
The students really enjoyed this topic because,
as one young man put it,
"I could write a book about myself!"
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...)
- The best job in the world would be a dog consultant.
- I also watch the history channel
because you can never know too much about history.
- My talent would be having good
mojo.
- In science I am achieving an easy
A, and hardly
giving it my all.
- I like to blow up stuff.
- Couciling
teens is a low stress job, and you get paid a lot of money.
- I am very interested in rockets and their
purpltion
sistims.
- 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.
- I want to be a
arcetecture.
- Theories can turn into
farts
by proving it.
- I'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
"backa" or
"cluck-chirp".
- (From a male student)
Also another reason good pay is important is because
if I get married and have kids... I want to buy them nice things.
For example, a wedding ring, dress, food... an alarm system...
- There is no better job
then
getting paid to argue.
- (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.
- I would slide down the helicopter ropes and
bust in
to save the day.
- Creating is creativity.
- There is
now
whining or crying in 5th grade.
- I have
went to every
Huskie home game in the past 5 years.
- I wanted to be a writer, but writing this paper makes me think I shouldn't.
- I will understand that no matter the child,
the punishment will fit the crime. No student will be left behind.
- I have the natural ability to become frustrated.
- I will have a sufficient retirement if I don't go bankrupt.
- (About being an architect)
Make everything extremely simple...
architects have to deal with the
puenie minded construction worker around them.
- 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.
Bonus misspellings:
omocinal,
nurcher,
pation,
mussuse.
(And I thought I didn'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're not as funny.)
Bonus explanation:
In
the previous series of essays on
humanity's greatest invention or discovery,
one of the responses was "marrying a princess".
I had to ask my friend for an explanation of that one.
"Well, one student decided to ignore the assigned topic and instead
wrote a fairy tale about a beautiful princess who gets married."
