College Students! discussion

I was looking around the group, and I haven't really seen a thread like this, so I thought I should start one. I was wondering who your role models are. Who do you look up to in your life? Who do you want to be like "when you grow up?" Are they someone you're related to, like your parents or siblings, or just someone you know, like a friend or classmate? Are they maybe a great teacher who changed your life, or a famous person whose life has inspired you to go out and do something? How have they affected you, and what would you say to them if you could?

My role models are pretty varied. First is obviously my mom, just because she was always a great mom and she always made us feel loved. She also instilled in me a love of reading and of learning. She made sure that I cared about school, but also about learning and reading for fun, and that's something that I really love to this day, and something I'm really thankful for.

Then there are some of my teachers who have helped me choose my career path, which is teaching. The main one of those is my high school band director, who came to our terrible band program and worked really hard to build it up to something more respectable. He really cared about his students and it really changed our school experience.

And then there are the more interesting ones. I really look up to Carl Sagan, for just being an amazing scientist, and for trying to bring the scientific knowledge and, more importantly, the scientific way of thinking, and make it more accessible to the public. He tried to show people the wonders of the natural world, of the cosmos and the atom, and how science isn't just some cold boring processes, but a quest to discover and explore the amazing intricacies of nature. He's a great man. In that same way, I respect people like him, especially Stephen Hawking, who manages to be an incredible scientist despite his handicaps.

I also really admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She wrote the book Infidel, and helped Theo van Gohg make the movie Submission, for which he was assassinated. she is an incredibly strong woman who came out of a terrible adolescence to fight for a cause she believes in. She is so strong, and really just an inspirational person.

Anyway, enough about me, what about you? Who do you admire?

My role model is definitely my mother. As most in the group know, I lost my mother 3 years ago to brain cancer. We didn't always get along during my teen years but I respected the hell out of my mom and looked up to her. She and my dad divorced when I was young and my mom really raised us by herself. I mean, we did see my dad alot but we lived primarily with my mom. Through the years she worked hard and kept getting promoted and making the life changes she wanted so that we could have a better life. She was always well liked and worked so hard and did everything with such integrity and excelled at everything she did. She instilled morals into us and taught us how to be respectful women. Even after she got diagnosed with cancer, she still managed to get her MBA while being very sick. She worked hard and accepted it all gracefully. I could only hope to be like her as a women and a mother. Don't get me wrong, she had her faults, but she really is an inspiration to me and my ultimate role model.

My aunt is my role model. She has gone through alot in her life and has bounced back. She is such a kind and loving person.

Anna, that reminds me of a T-Shirt I saw once, it said "Women who behave rarely make history" or something along those lines.

.... Anna I get the feeling you're not a big fan of U.S. government leaders.
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