Most likely to ... end up in a newspaper "yearbook" story

As it turns out, they were, in fact, 2 good 2 B 4gotten.

They became public figures, celebrities, millionaires, people you'd see on the side of a bus. That may not have been what they set out to do. Sometimes real life exceeds our dreams.

Like most of us, they all went to high school -- where they probably forgot their locker combinations, fell asleep in class once or twice or got their yearbooks signed by someone who told them, "Don't ever change!" And where, like many during this graduation season, they no doubt considered a life after high school.

What sorts of ambitions did we have in high school, when we knew so little about the world (though we thought otherwise), when we had no idea where our experiences and circumstances would take us?

What some set out to do turns out to be a pale imitation of their potential. For others, unseen curves on the road ahead led in totally different directions. For still others, their hopes are exactly what keep them moving toward that goal, not stopping until they get it.

That's how wannabe-fighter-pilots turn into actors, how a guy who figures he'll be a grocer becomes a celebrity chef instead. And why we might look back at ourselves as high-schoolers and think the very words scrawled in many a yearbook: "I didn't really know you, but you seem like a cool person!"

-- Marc Ramirez

With Jack Broom, Haley Edwards, Jolayne Houtz, Mark Rahner, Richard Seven, Pamela Sitt