{"id":323,"date":"2014-12-18T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=323"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:57:50","slug":"humans-of-the-english-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2014\/12\/humans-of-the-english-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of the English Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

Image<\/strong>: Photo \u00a9 Flikr.com<\/a>
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Author:<\/strong> Rebecca Frey<\/p>\n

\u00a0Humans of the English Department<\/h4>\n

2014 is coming to its term and again I realize how time flies by super fast. My plan to figure out what comes next, after I leave the cosiness of UNIL, has not much evolved since the beginning of the year. So I decided to ask around and see what other \u2018humans of the English Department\u2019 have to say about their plans for that thing called \u2018Future\u2019. But I also wanted to know more about their childhood and asked a number of people two questions:<\/p>\n

MUSE: What did you want to become as a child? And now? What do you want to be now?
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Frank, 23:<\/strong> When I was a kid I wanted to be something between an astronaut and an archaeologist, maybe like an archaeologist on the moon!<\/p>\n

And now\u2026 I want to be a rock star! … I\u2019m still at university, I\u2019m allowed to dream!<\/p>\n

Chloe, 22:<\/strong> When I was about 5 I wanted to become a post office counter woman, because I loved to stamp things.<\/p>\n

Now I want to be what I am meant to be\u2026 I don\u2019t know\u2026 a singer!<\/p>\n

Raphael, 23: <\/strong>Between the age of 7 and 13 I wanted to become an actor. Now: a filmmaker.<\/p>\n

Philip, 27: <\/strong>As a child I wanted to be a football player. Now I want to become a full professor at UNIL or Harvard as second choice, (or else a go-go dancer).<\/p>\n

Constance, 26: <\/strong>I wanted to be a lot of things as a kid: a baker, a pilot, an archaeologist, an astronomer and an archer (most things that started with an a really\u2026). Now I want to be a journalist, or else a Red Cross special envoy.<\/p>\n

Florence, 28: <\/strong>I wanted to be a Disney animator after I watched the Little Mermaid. My dad showed me the making of and I got really exited about that. Now I want to be either a filmmaker or a theatre director. (MUSE: Or both at the same time?) And maybe you could also put \u2018famous\u2019 in front of that!<\/p>\n

Renaud, 27: <\/strong>When I was small I wanted to become an oceanographer\u2026 or oceanologist? Anyway\u2026 now I just want to be happy!<\/p>\n

Damien, 28: <\/strong>I always wanted to become a palaeontologist, but I didn\u2019t manage\u2026 maybe because I didn\u2019t dig deeply enough. Now I, I guess just want to be an outsider, a bit off and with a shovel in my hand\u2026<\/p>\n

Marie, 25: <\/strong>I wanted to become a fashion stylist and then an archaeologist. And now, now I just don\u2019t want to be bored.<\/p>\n

Agnieszka, 46: <\/strong>I spent my whole childhood planning to be a vet and I enrolled in university as I biology major at first. Now if I had to change jobs or could start over again I would become an investigative reporter. I think it’s a super important profession and it would be nice to feel like your work can make a difference. \u00a0With teaching it’s harder to see long term results.<\/p>\n

Valeria, 24: <\/strong>I wanted to become a fashion designer when I was a child, and now I am torn between actor and writer, or anything to do with theatre and film or publishing and writing.<\/p>\n

Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric, 22: <\/strong>I always wanted to become a rail-road engineer driving locomotives. Now I want to become Boris Vejdovsky\u2019s PhD student.<\/p>\n

Luc, 24: <\/strong>I also wanted to be a rail-road engineer but on a very precise section of line, between Porrentruy and Alle. (For your information: the distance between Porrentruy and Alle is 4.7km, it is a 5min train drive. MUSE)<\/p>\n

Now I probably want to be an inspiring French teacher somewhere abroad, starting with the US.<\/p>\n

Patricia: <\/strong>I wanted to become a veterinary surgeon when I was a child. Now I want to be a linguist at university of Lausanne.<\/p>\n

\"Merry<\/a>
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