During our Sophomore year, my friends and I decided to accomplish 101 things the book 101 Things You Should Do Before You Graduate by David Bordon and Tom Winters suggest.
Here is the status of the list so far and some stories to share along the way:
1.) Make exercise a habit
2.) Laugh a lot!
3.) Tell a teacher, "Thanks-you made me think!"
4.) Slow dance with someone special under the stars.
5.) Quit skulking and start talking.
6.) Welcome mornings!
7.) Hand over the soda! 8 months of hard work!
8.) Nibble on something new! Thai food!
9.) Save your breath
10.) Take a hot-air balloon ride- These suckers are over a 100 dollars, don't think this is going to happen.
11.) Two-words" Flashlight tag
12.) Tutor Someone
13.) Go cosmic bowling.
14.) Make a friend outside of school. Can anyone say Washington?
15.) Eat ice cream for breakfast.
16.) Try another hair color-for a day. Yeah I tried multiple: red, dark brown, attempted blonde...
17.) Look in the mirror and say "Hello, masterpiece!"
18.) Fill some one's room with balloons.
19.) Write a mission statement for your life: My mission is to cherish and build relationships
that show love through actions and words by providing transformational
opportunities and experiences.
20.) Plant a flower for those who come later
21.) Plan a monthly friend outing: seriously, I have never had trouble with this!
22.) Wear your pajamas all day long!
23.) Give it up the home team: Love AU softball!
24.) Pictures, pictures, pictures!
25.) Conduct a clothing inventory: Can you say every month?
26.) Eat something besides chips.
27.) Go on a blind date with no expectations: This was so much fun. 18 blind dates filled with dinner and bowling. Couldn't have asked for a more fun time and I go to go out with the guy who I thought was so cute freshman year!
28.) Take command of the stage-even if it's just to move scenery: Encore baby! Come back in two weeks to hear more about this event!
29.) Treat yourself to a graduation vacation: England baby!
30.) Take Advantage of extra credit: You know it!
31.) Make self-defense your first defense: I say one class counts!
32.) Shun Procrastination: I am usually great at this year, but I will be honest that Senior year has been the hardest to do this.
33.) Travel Light: Getting better and better each time I go somewhere
34.) Get serious about prayer
35.) Embrace diversity
36.) Read your bible cover to cover
37.) Find out where the jobs are
38.) Develop your gifts and talents: can anyone say guitar?
39.) Subscribe to a professional magazine
40.) Walk to class a different way...and see what you have been missing.
41.) Listen to the voice of experience
42.) Create a basic budget
43.) Share your faith
44.) Embrace self-rule
45.) Try every flavor of jelly beans-and share!
46.) Prepare to celebrate
47.) Learn the basics of cooking!
48.) Look into the cost of liberty
49.) See the ordinary as extraordinary
50.) Practice random acts of kindness
51.) Journal your way through Senior Year: this journal we are talking about is what I call my blog.
52.) Identify and target three potential employers: this is kind of on the back burner for now.
53.) Begin to think of time as an investment capital
54.) Verbalize your dreams
55.) Know thyself!
56.) Put in your full eight hours of sleep-at least once!
57.) Update your address book
58.) Read for fun!
59.) Try your hand at school politics: two weeks of senator, that's as long as I could make it
60.) Re-create yourself: can you say shopping?
61.) Volunteer to babysit
62.) Attend a resume-writing seminar
63.) Open a savings account
64.) Make a deal to work for nothing!
65.) Stay up all night-to talk!
66.) Tell your parents, "Thanks, and I love you!"
67.) Start your own library.
68.) Set a date for a rendezvous.
69.)Go out on a limb
70.) Become a filmmaker
71.)Manage credit cards wisely! Don't have any!
72.)Try your hand at journalism.
73.)Go on a missions trip
74.) Accentuate the positive. I tend to be more negative
75.) Rent the classics
76.) Have an all chocolate day!
77.) Practice people watching
78.) "Hey, everybody let's have a picnic!"
79.) Become a patron of goodwill
80.) Pamper yourself
81.) Become a secret admirer
82.) Be a person of your word.
83.) Take a pass on alcohol, drugs, and sex.
84.) Find your voice
85.) Feed the hungry
86.) Wherever you are-be all there
87.) Be on the lookout for an epiphany!
88.) Invite your friends to a late-night snack buffet
89.) Become the answer to some one's prayer
90.) Enter a writing contest
91.) Save your memories in a scrapbook
92.) Enjoy someone else's music
93.) Go to church with a friend
94.) Ready, set, play cards! This was super easy to accomplish!
95.) Get up in time to see the sun rise!
96.) Take a crash course in manners
97.) Wear what feels good!
98.)Consider life on the outside
99.) Howl at the moon!
100.) Discover the arts!
101.) Become a treasure hunter
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