Foreword

This is an assignment that I wrote when I was in grade 12. At the time I was enrolled in a "Tertiary Awareness Program" run by Central Queensland University. This program was designed to give grade 12 students an idea of what university life was like (for a fee). I don't think I learned anything from it other than that lecturers may not have a sense of humour, which is actually not a bad thing to learn.

So myself and about 30 other students went to CQU every week to learn what CQU was like, and came back none the wiser. The co-ordinators would occasionally joke around with us and try to share gossip with us and generally seemed like very good-humoured people.

The university co-ordinators told us that we had to submit an assignment, but this assignment was optional. When we mentioned this to our teachers at school, they said they'd heard nothing from the university people to say it was optional. And being naive grade 12 students, we were sure the two parties would sort themselves out and not end up blaming everything on the students in the end.

So naturally most of us opted to not do the "optional" assignment. 3 days before end of semester, however, the teacher who was in charge of the school side of things for the program bundled us all into a classroom and told us all off for not doing the assignment. She said we had three days to write our assignments or we would all be on detention every day of next semester until we got it done. She said she was disappointed in us all, except for the three people who had handed in an assignment already.

The topic of the assignment was, put simply, "Your future career path". When they had asked us during the program how many of us knew what we wanted to do after high school, only one person put her hand up, so they knew full well that most of us wouldn't have a clue what to write.

So a friend and I were joking about what we could write in our assignments, being very pissed off at the teacher in charge and the university and assignments in general. Eventually, one of my friends decided to write about being a national terrorist for my other friend's assignment, and I decided to be a Jedi when I grew up.