Game: 5 Things You Want to Accomplish In the Next Five Years (or more)

<p>I guess not really a game, but I thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone else has in mind. Please try and stay away from academic achievements. This is a thread about living.</p>

<p>Also, 5 is the minimum but you can include more. </p>

<p>In no particular order of significance:</p>

<ol>
<li> Learn to play guitar adequately (so I can strum sad songs when it rains)</li>
<li> Learn to cook awesome ethnic dishes</li>
<li> Skydive</li>
<li> Cross-country road trip!</li>
<li> Get a boyfriend once I get into college :P</li>
</ol>

<p>In no order:
1)Learn to play the piano
2)Travel to a different country
3)Learn another language
4)Become more familiar with different cultures
5)Finally(in the +5 year category) pursue the profession of my dreams(whatever that may be, I have yet to decide):></p>

<p>1) Quit my CC addiction
2) Eat famous food from every country
3) Watch every King of the Hill episode
4) Flip off my freshman German teacher
5) Not fail my first year of college =)</p>

<ol>
<li>Get into my dream college/do well in any college I go to</li>
<li>Learn to play piano</li>
<li>Start folding origami</li>
<li>Learn how to cook</li>
<li>Learn to love life and appreciate it more</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>Be excellent academically/ Be perfect overall.</li>
<li>Get into Harvard.</li>
<li>Don’t let parents pay a single dime when I go to college.</li>
<li>Meet SS.</li>
<li>Learn from setbacks insted of them letting me down.</li>
</ol>

<p>Can I do five more, I have a long list?</p>

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<p>OP: </p>

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<p>So, yeah… You probably can. =P </p>

<ol>
<li>Not get a single “B.”</li>
<li>Columbia.</li>
<li>Scholarships.</li>
<li>Valedictorian.</li>
<li>Fluent Spanish. </li>
</ol>

<p>I just realized how old I would be in 5 years. That’s actually quite scary.</p>

<ol>
<li>Finish high school alive and first in class.</li>
<li>Go to Yale or Oxford. Haha if I got into Oxford I might ruin the first part of number one, though. :wink: </li>
<li>Go to at least England and Spain. </li>
<li>Get Published. </li>
<li>Become fluent in Spanish.</li>
</ol>

<p>@Kiwi_Night</p>

<p>Lol - the first one (about strumming the guitar when it rains to sad songs) made me smile. I was doing the same exact thing yesterday while it was raining w/ the lights all dim – the best feeling I had in a long time. =D</p>

<p>1) Travel the world or at least Sweden (for personal reasons…lol)
2) See the aurora borealis
3) Make some sort of difference in the world - start a charity or some organization geared toward helping others
4) Hopefully find a passion that I can see in the form of a lifelong career and stick to it.
5) Make my mom’s life easier (she’s been through a lot)
6) To be perfectly human and make the most of the experiences</p>

<p>@xxrunningonempty, the Aurora Borealis is BEAUTIFUL. Though, be sure to bring a camera that works properly in cold temp, unlike me :(</p>

<p>1)Get Emma Watson’s autograph #1 priority! lol jk, but still one of my goals.
2)not fail freshman year at vandy
3)keep my scholarship
4)break 10 minutes on my 2 mile
5)learn to tap dance
6)learn to ride a bike (sad that I’m 17 and can’t ride a bike…)</p>

<p>^ Dude, I’m 17 and don’t have my driver’s license. That’s worse =(</p>

<ol>
<li>Get accepted to UNC and go there (Hopefully Morehead-Cain, but getting in would be good enough)</li>
<li>Win XC State Championship (Team)</li>
<li>Qualify for State Championships (Individually)</li>
<li>Run a Marathon (hopefully qualify for Boston eventually, but as with #1, just running one is enough)</li>
<li>Enjoy the rest of high school, then enjoy college.</li>
<li>Go to the Olympics (not compete obviously lmao, I just want to go watch it)</li>
<li>Make a difference in the world. I feel bad for copying runningonempty, but this has been my mantra for years, and I want to make it a reality.</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>Go to Stanford, major in CS</li>
<li>Go to the Olympics</li>
<li>Go to the FIFA World Cup</li>
<li>Start own computer-building sidejob business</li>
<li>Develop some neat computer applications</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>All As or higher to salvage my GPA.</li>
<li>5 in AP French and Chem</li>
<li>Fire-breathe at Burning Man, as a “teacher” this time rather than a newbie student.</li>
<li>NJ Chem League Champ</li>
<li>Get the girl.</li>
</ol>

<p>1)Graduate High School
2)Go to Yale
3)See Australia
4)Get the girl
5)Degree in Engineering</p>

<ol>
<li>Graduate high school.</li>
<li>Go to college.</li>
<li>See Moscow, Prague, Paris, Tokyo</li>
<li>Learn to play piano.</li>
<li>Get rid of anxiety.</li>
</ol>

<ul>
<li>Find a charity I really like working for</li>
<li>Become fluent in Spanish</li>
<li>Become fluent in Chinese (I was fluent and forgot it, so it’s not overkill to do it & Spanish)</li>
<li>Travel somewhere with my friends/study abroad</li>
<li>Meet lots of epic people</li>
</ul>

<p>Learn Korean
Get accepted (and graduate) from college
Get accepted into Medical school
Enjoy life and not be stressed out too much about superfluous crap
Have a fun time in college</p>

<p>+Become fluent in Swahili.
+Get accepted to my first choice college.
+Study Abroad
+Learn to play Guitar
+Run a Marathon
+Find something meaningful to do with the rest of my life.</p>

<ol>
<li>learn to live with myself-accepting all my faults for what they are
2.see a solar eclipse</li>
<li>became part of a “sisterhood” of friends (4) who I can always count on</li>
<li>get the boy</li>
<li>get into at least three of the top colleges i want</li>
<li>have one experience that makes high school worth it</li>
<li>have a life- changing experience that makes me see the world differently</li>
<li>discover the secret to greek fire</li>
<li>become happy</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>Get straight A’s for the rest of my high school career.</li>
<li>Receive my license.</li>
<li>Get into one of my top college choices, and earn great/excellent grades there.</li>
<li>Be happy for once (as in relatively stress-free).</li>
<li>Find myself. (may take more than 5 years)</li>
</ol>