I never even imagined that one day I follow a career to become a teacher, let alone it becoming my dream in life.
Yes, I want to be a university professor. That does not exactly mean teaching but teaching is an inseparable part of being an academic.
When I was little, I always liked to be a commercial pilot. For some reason, in my naivety as a child, I thought a pilot was superior to all other professionals.
That belief probably originated because pilots were the boss of the sky. They are not, but kids don not understand the many complexities in the society. That is probably why we call them both naive and creative.
Now that I think of it, I am choosing the Academic track because of the very same reasons that the then kiddo selected Aviation. University professors have no evident boss. They are the boss of the classroom and hold a very powerful tool, namely the final exam.
But I am not going to be that kind of professor. I am choosing academia because there are possibilities to be explored. Discoveries to be made. And beliefs in the conventional wisdom that call to be refuted.
In that, I lay my heart.
