101 Things
Posted in by Ellen - May 13, 2009
1. Live in a foreign country
2. Bay to Breakers DONE
3. Host a formal dinner party
4. Go Skydiving (or, safer: Indoor Skydiving)
5. Bowl over 100
6. Have at least 25 full design notebooks
7. Write a short story
8. Write a full book on the LOA experience
9. Get Stucourses officially implemented at Olin
10. Take a spontaneous, at least week-long carcation (It was only a weekend, but definitely counted)
11. Successfully plan and pull off a conference
12. Actually run Race for the Cure or any 5k
13. Keep my book log up for the entire time. And my Goodreads account.
14. Learn to play Piano
15. Return to playing clarinet and saxophone AT LEAST ONCE PER WEEK (starting August)
16. Take a sketching class
17. Take a figure drawing class
18. Take a photography (digital) class
19. Create an art portfolio
20. Create an engineering portfolio
21. Create a web2.0 app using Django
22. At least one Guerilla Art installation
23. Do Yoga at least twice/week for the entire time, Gym 5x/week (within reason)
24. Go geocaching
25. See the Aurora Borealis
26. Learn to fly airplanes
27. Have a wide repetoire of vegetarian recipes: be able to eat 3 different meals/day for an entire week.
28. Take a cooking class
29. Watch a sunrise after driving all night to get to it. Sleep on the beach afterwards.
30. Pay someone a random compliment every single day.
31. Be on the board of a nonprofit
32. Watch all of the movies on the IMDB top 50
33. Throw a completely surprise party- for no reason.
34. Walk part of the Appalachain trail. Not necessarily all.
35. Run a half-marathon. Marathon if I am feeling ambitious/think I am able.
36. Learn a form of dance: salsa, ballet, ballroom
37. Go to a wine tasting
38. Take a wine tasting course/learn to identifying different notes
39. Audition for/ be in a play
40. Take voice lessons
41. Start a book club
42. Learn to drive a stick shift
43. Go skiing/snowboarding
44. Go surfing
45. Go rock climbing
46. Get certified to Bar Tend
47. Go to a different church every Sunday for at least two months: or at least 10 churches, see what other experiences are like.
48. Be quicker to apologize when I am wrong.
49. Develop an iPhone/Android App GateHopper, PacePlayer, Random MobDev Stuff
50. Become more comfortable biking over short distances
51. Get LASIK eye surgery
52. Go to a wedding
53. Go golfing at least once/summer
54. Get a better sense of graphic design through reading books/doing. Make at least one thing that gets a “wow”
55. Drink eight cups water/day for one month straight
56. Floss every day for one month straight
57. Create a master list of every museum, aquarium, zoo I’ve been to, and keep it up to date.
58. Take reusable bags to the grocery store.
59. Blog about each task I take off this list: post this list.
60. Get in touch with Mr. Ortiz
61. Go to Big Omaha
62. Go to ALL of SXSW, not just SXSWi
63. Go to a film festival
64. Speak at a conference/be on a panel at a conference
65. Quit biting my nails.
66. Submit a postsecret
67. Learn Sign Langugae
68. Take the GREs, GMAT, or MCAT
69. Keep a plant alive for at least 6 months
70. Donate blood
71. Go vintage shopping
72. Write my future-self a letter. Don’t lose it.
73. Go to the Grand Cayon
74. Go to Yosemite
75. Go to Lake Tahoe
76. Regularly write poetry
77. Apply to a summer VC program as a partnership with 2-3 people as opposed to 6
78. Take cookies to a new neighbor
79. Buy a piece of original art
80. Stop swearing unless it’s drastically needed for emphasis/ it is the appropriate word/quoting someone else
81. Go on a trip alone: a retreat of sorts, for at least 48 hours, and don’t talk to anyone else.
82. Make thankyouagain.info a reality Eliminated Due to Lack of Interest
83. Create at least 10 distinctive playlists that have a point (3/10)
84. Write a serious essay on something trivial (gossip girl?)
85. Come up with a unique course idea and implement it. Put it on wikiversity.
86. Go to all 50 states (what I’ve already done counts)
87. Learn how to fix my car: at least simple parts of it. Learn more about how my car works.
88. Get my Series 7 Securities License
89. Continue to read an hour per day.
90. Get all of my routine check-ups on time: Dentist, Doctor, etc.
91. Go camping at least once.
92. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
93. Drink no alcohol for one month.
94. Use a pedometer, keep track of steps regularly
95. Play a game of ultimate Frisbee. Practice throwing Frisbee first.
96. Get a boating license of some variety/practice sailing.
97. Listen to only French music for a day: sing along.
98. Visit all seven continents.
99. Graduate from college / have a job or be accepted to graduate school.
100. Go three months without caffeine (soda, coffee- tea/chocolate is fine)
101. Learn to stop procrastinating! Get everything done before the deadline by at least 24 hours.
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This list concludes on Tuesday February 7th, 2012
More Ideas from after the original list:1
- Stop using the snooze button
- RUN Bay to Breakers (the whole thing)
- Live without the internet for a month
- Design and make an article of clothing
- Try being vegan for a week.
- Go kite sailing and/or parasailing
- Wear moisturizer with sunscreen everyday.