Saturday, January 26, 2013

Crazy Bucket List

High School Bucket List:

  • send something to space
  • win a volleyball tournament 
  • star in a minor film as an extra
  • make riding horses a hobby
  • actually have a good audition for clarinet
College Bucket List:
  • participate in Survivor
  • travel around the world
  • study in another country
  • build a model rocket from scratch
  • don't go into debt
Life Bucket List:
  • live a full life
  • go skydiving
  • live in the mountains
  • live on the beach
  • discover gold
  • watch the entire Harry Potter Movie series in one week
  • many other things

The Top Items on my Crazy Bucket List:
Because the inevitable looming high school graduation creeping ever closer, the number one item on my crazy bucket list is to send something to space. A little explanation for this crazy out-of-this-world idea? There is a chance that as my mentoring project I could maybe possibly work in a space systems laboratory at UK. In this lab they work on cube labs (little cubes that contain one science experiment that get sent up to the space station) and satellites and many many other very interesting projects run by the college students. Ever since I was really young, I have wanted to become an astronaut of some sort or another (a long time ago it was a dentist in outer space). Since then, practically growing up in my mom's and my dad's labs has kindled my interest in the Hubble Space Telescope (which my mom worked on a part of when she was just out of college) and other mechanical systems including airplanes and even flying cars. This might be pretty geeky(?), but it just seems like fulfilling a dream just like a young athlete does playing their sport. 

For ever exciting college quickly approaching, the top item on my crazy bucket list is to participate in the show Survivor.... Yes that is my top item. It may sound a bit, well, crazy, but for me it isn't. I've been a huge fan of survivor forever... like I've been watching since the third or fourth season came out every and every season since. Some of the contestants are college aged and it seem to be about the right age to be on that show, to outwit, outplay, and outlast the other contestants. I feel that I am good at trickery and scheming. Both needed traits for Survivor!

My absolutely top top item on my crazy long bucket list to do before I die is to live a full life. I'm not sure if this counts, but right now, that's my top priority. On my death bed, I want to feel like I have made a lasting positive impact on someone's life-in my family or outside of my family. Maybe in the coming years I will think of something better like flying to paradise in my house lifted by balloons or saving the world by creating a life on mars... but until then, this is my greatest top item on my crazy bucket list. 


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