PREMISE: The more you learn, the more you can learn. The more you learn, the more ideas, concepts, reference points, raw information, and collated data you will have at your command. As a consequence, constant, active learning throughout one's life allows one to view situations from new perspectives, to use new frameworks for thinking, and to apply oneself in a number of different ways. Simply put, knowledge, or "crystallized intelligence" as it is known in psychology, is massively, woefully underrated. He with the most knowledge wields the most advantage over the comparatively ignorant, especially in today's age of ubiquitous Internet access and deluge of output (for good or for ill) from academia. In the modern era, replete with information overload via the Internet, ignorance, as with weakness, is a choice. "Project: Fantastic" is my answer in the negative.

GOALS: To expand my knowledge to the point where I could hold a meaningful conversation with Mr. Fantastic, Tony Stark, or other fictional super-geniuses. To command, at barest minimum, a basic working knowledge of scientific fields and practical skills as varied and as deeply as possible.