• Learn 2 漢字 / day
  • Learn a vocabulary word / day
  • Save a dollar a day = Save $1001
  • Stretch for 10 minutes / day
  • Read the newspaper daily
  • Update blog/journal daily
  • Declare the major
  • Get and keep a high GPA. 3.8~4.0
  • Get into UCSD's biology program
  • Get on the honor roll
  • Get to know 10 professors personally
  • Have 0 absent days for a quarter
  • Find "what I want to do"
  • Arrange to study abroad
  • Study abroad
  • Read 10 Japanese books
  • Read 10 books outside of school
  • Pass the 漢字検定
  • Pass the JPLT exam
  • Take and pass the 国連英検
  • Hone my 日本語 skills
  • Learn Chinese
  • Finish the Japanese Biology book
  • Finish the Japanese Chemistry book
  • Write down 101 things I like about myself
  • Write down 101 things that make me happy
  • Write down 10 things that I don't like about myself, and identify how I can fix them
  • Write a letter to myself to open in 6 years
  • Learn a poem by heart
  • Read a religious text
  • Answer 50 questions that will free your mind
  • Say no
  • Surprise my mum with flowers
  • Cook an entire meal for my family
  • Send my grandma a letter each month
    • 9/22
  • Spend a day with my brother
  • Stay in touch with my family
  • Skype with family
  • Improve my posture
  • Take a yoga class
  • Take a dance class
  • Learn how to cook
  • Walk a half-marathon
  • Walk a marathon
  • Learn how to sew
  • Learn how to knit
  • Learn photography
  • Choreograph a dance
  • Learn how to draw
  • Get a moleskine
  • Keep a moleskine
  • Make a calendar
  • Volunteer for 101 hours
  • Donate blood
  • Grow my hair to donate it
  • Fold a thousand cranes and give it away
  • Travel to Japan and visit grandma
  • Travel to Europe
  • Take the public bus alone
  • Take the amtrack alone
  • Go people watching
  • Find a job
    • 9/17: Pines
  • Create a budget and stick to it
  • Get my driver's license
  • Organize my papers
  • Organize my room
  • Organize my computer files
  • Improve my skin condition
  • Don't complain about anything for a week
  • Don't eat out for a month (including Starbucks!)
  • No sweets for a month
  • Don't go online for a week
  • Get an internship
  • Become 20
  • Do 10 random acts of kindness
  • Watch the sunrise and sunset at the beach on the same day
  • Fall in love
  • Make a wish at 11:11 on November 11, 2011
  • Give 5 "just because" presents
  • Send 10 surprise snail mail
  • Join postcrossing
    • Sent:
      • Olga, from Russia 9/16
      • Monika, from Poland 9/16
      • Dawn, from Switzerland 9/16
      • Eret, from Estonia 9/22
      • Amber, from Canada 9/22
    • Received:
  • Visit an old teacher
  • Write 10 thank you cards
  • Leave an inspirational note inside a book for someone to find
  • Buy flowers for myself
  • Learn how to write with my left hand
  • Put change in someone's expired parking meter
  • Grow a plant
  • Spend a rainy day inside watching movies in pajamas with a cup of hot chocolate
  • Try a new dish
  • Keep a journal
  • Keep a blog
  • Go to a concert
  • See a movie in 3-D
  • Develop long lasting friendships
  • Make an acquaintance outside of school
  • Record thoughts for each finished task
  • Save $5 for each completed task and splurge total for myself
  • Donate a dollar for each task uncompleted
  • Don't be disappointed in myself for not completing all the tasks.
  • Make a new list

Not that I need a list to do some of these things, but as a reminder that college isn't just about isolated intense studying-ness(:

Start: January 1st, 2011

sep 6 2010 ∞
jan 28 2012 +