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Interesting people I know all agree that their 17-year-old self couldn't know what their 25 or 30 year-old self wanted.

Absolutely true. I just mentioned to my little brother yesterday:

"If 27 year old me had stepped out of a portal to 1999 and said 'Patrick, stop fooling around and study that freaking subjunctive case in Spanish, you'll have to explain how it works to someone in ten years in Japanese', I would have told him to take his crazy shapeshifting Terminator self back through the portal."

For the record, I'm doing what I hoped to be doing when I was 17. ;)

As am I. Are we really that rare?

I treated college as the end. What to do after that became a bridge I'd cross when I got there.