SgtShaftoe




I'm doing 36 things
 

SgtShaftoe's Life List

  1. 1. learn poi
    3 entries
    177 people
  2. 2. learn to ride a unicycle
    1 cheer
    258 people
  3. 3. Learn to juggle four balls
    25 people
  4. 4. learn to trackstand
    5 people
  5. 5. grow a bonsai
    21 people
  6. 6. thru-hike the Appalachian Trail
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    147 people
  7. 7. hike the appalachian trail
    1,644 people
  8. 8. Get my Master's Degree
    1,071 people
  9. 9. Read more books
    10,975 people
  10. 10. Learn to play the drums
    1,936 people
  11. 11. walk a tightrope
    7 people
  12. 12. walk on stilts
    44 people
  13. 13. run a marathon
    10,411 people
  14. 14. complete a triathlon
    670 people
  15. 15. finish my thesis
    487 people
  16. 16. Master Vi
    9 people
  17. 17. learn how to use git
    5 people
  18. 18. Learn to play the banjo
    1 cheer
    429 people
  19. 19. consume less
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    165 people
  20. 20. improve my juggling
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    58 people
  21. 21. make a website
    2 cheers
    697 people
  22. 22. write a whole story
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. get a saxophone
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    5 people
  24. 24. learn Tai Chi
    2 cheers
    1,115 people
  25. 25. play more chess
    2 cheers
    132 people
  26. 26. Learn to play go
    1 entry
    151 people
  27. 27. Get my Master's
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    632 people
  28. 28. master emacs
    23 people
  29. 29. hang glide
    679 people
  30. 30. visit New Zealand
    1 cheer
    1,408 people
  31. 31. Visit Australia
    1 cheer
    2,452 people
  32. 32. Take up the saxophone again
    2 cheers
    6 people
  33. 33. legitimately own every album I listen to
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  34. 34. bust a phat rap
    1 cheer
    1 person
  35. 35. finish a creative project that I've started
    1 entry
    1 person
  36. 36. learn django
    59 people

How I did it
How to learn how to drive stick-shift
It took me
1 day
It made me
feel retro


How to lose 50 pounds
It took me
4 months
It made me


How to do 100 pushups
It took me
3 months
It made me
stronger


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write a whole story (read all 2 entries…)
Untitled 4 months ago

My past attempts at completing this goal by fleshing out one of my many ideas have failed due to lack of time. Since I’ll be graduating within the next month or so, I hope to dedicate some time to this. At the very least, I want to just finish one so that I never have to look back and wonder if I could have produced anything decent once I set my mind to it.



Get my Master's (read all 2 entries…)
Only my thesis to go 4 months ago

I’ve finished all of my coursework & my oral comprehensive exams – now I only have my thesis to go. I have about 1/2 of it drafted, working on drafting the rest this week, and then I have about a month to go through revisions with my advisors. I can’t wait to finally be finished…



thru-hike the Appalachian Trail
Increasing mental commitment 5 months ago

This is something I’ve wanted to do since my days as an avid backpacker in Boy Scouts, and something rekindled my interest a few months ago – I can’t even remember what. At first, I tried to gauge the interest levels of my friends, and when I couldn’t seem to get any interested in the idea at all, I let the idea lie dormant for a while. Recently, though, it’s come back to the forefront of my mind, and I’ve decided that if I want to do it, I should do it regardless of whether or not I can get a friend to go with me. The time I have after I finish my Master’s is going to be the best opportunity I’ll have to go, and if my desire remains, I’ll really regret not doing it. Once I’m finished with my thesis, I’m going to be taking a number of prep hikes to test out gear, and make sure that it’s something that I really want to do. But beyond that, it seems like mental commitment is the most important contributor towards successfully finishing, and I know from past experience that that won’t be a problem for me.



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