Before the 2010s ended, the Clarion asked students, ‘What are your hopes for the next decade?’
Derek Blow, photography 20 years old
Next 10 years, hopefully I’ll be a successful photographer by then, and be at Sports Center, because I want to do Sports Photography and it’s always been a dream of mine. Because I love sports, and I’m really interested in that. I actually do want to do all aspects of photography. Like landscapes, sports, whether it’s portraits I just want to be top-notch. That’s one of my goals. I want to travel a lot, take gorgeous photos. and hopefully I can be financially stable by then, and have a family, you know. We have too many gun violence, you know. I hope less shootings happen ‘cause it sucks what those families have to go through, just it really sucks. I hope we get less forest fires. I hope our planet stays healthy. As individuals we should try to prevent that from happening.
Ryan Baffoni, history, 20
My hopes for the next 10 years is that people will start to take climate change seriously because even though we don’t see it, it’s all around us. With all them carbon dioxide in the air and the melting of the glaciers, I really hope that people do take the time to try to fix this because this is our future, and if we don’t change it, we could we’ll see a lot more problems in the future.
(I hope) that people will put aside their differences, and that we can all cooperate as one so we can build a better future.
To graduate college and get a job and start a family.
I’m thinking maybe teaching because I want to be able to teach the children the future what exactly we have planned or what has happened in the past so that way they learn about what we did and they can either use those ideas for the future or to try to, try to avoid our past mistakes.
Right now my major is biology but I do want to do environmental science, so for the next decade I’m hoping that we do a lot more advancements in like the environment, creating new biofuels, new alternative energy . So that’s the kind of stuff I’m interested in, hoping that we reach for in 2020.
As a society, like, cutting back on fossil fuels like recyclable, reusable materials.
Gabriel Chacon business 18
To get a higher rank in my work, to get a better job, a better-paying job and to graduate from college. ‘Cause 10 years is a long time from now. So, I’ll at least get my Associate’s or Bachelor’s from then. And move on to a 4-year somewhere else that’s better than a community college
Thyra Tran, biology, 19 years old.
Right now my major is biology but I do want to do environmental science, so for the next decade I’m hoping that we do a lot more advancements in like the environment, creating new biofuels, new alternative energy . So that’s the kind of stuff I’m interested in, hoping that we reach for in 2020.
As a society, like, cutting back on fossil fuels like recyclable, reusable materials.
