I’ve visited:
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont (I think), Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey (I think), North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, California, and Maryland
I don’t count stopping at an airport as visited…
So I’ve visited 12-14 of them, 24%-28%. I have a ways to go.
ThurgoodScarlet's Life List
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1. Get into college
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2. Visit all seven continents
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3. Visit all seven countries in Diplomacy
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4. Read 100 books by July 25th, 2010
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5. Attain a high enough level of cooking proficiency that I don't need to use a cookbook and can improvise difficult meals
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6. Learn at least one foreign language
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7. Learn a programming language
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8. Be able to do 100 pushups in a row
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9. Visit all 50 States
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10. Watch the entire Ring of the Nibelungen
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11. Build a diamagnetic levitation system
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12. Make images of all my childhood computer games
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13. Write the six community service journal entries I need to graduate
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14. Learn how to blow glass
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15. Reach both geographic poles
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16. See the Northern Lights
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17. Become a turnip lord
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18. Become comfortable driving places I haven't been to
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19. Learn how to draw with accuracy
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20. Learn to play a musical instrument
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21. Own and operate a tank or battleship
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22. Acquire a collection of quality pop-up books
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23. Understand quantum physics
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24. Organize my Legos
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25. evaluate all the sandwiches at Dover Deli
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26. Learn Perfect Pitch
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27. Learn how to crack a safe and pick a lock by hand
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28. Build a Tesla coil
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29. Acquire an invisibilty cloak
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30. Get laser eye surgery
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31. Make a list of classic movies and watch them all
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32. Make a list of classic books and read them all
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33. Make a sincere effort to recycle everything I use
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34. See 25 plays or musicals
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35. Learn to dance
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36. See five museums and five zoos or aquariums.
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37. Build a sandcastle at least as tall as I am
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38. Own a really powerful computer
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39. Grow a vegetable, herb, and fruit garden
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40. Experience apparent weightlessness
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41. Have as a pet an animal larger than myself
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42. Learn how to whistle
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43. Start a dream journal and write in it once a day
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How I did it: Looking at the symbols on the page, then using my brain to translate the symbols into recognizable objects or ideas, then arranging them into a coherent whole. Read how I did it…
I have no idea what would be good to learn. Some ones I’ve heard of:
Java
Python -I’ve tried this and failed at it :)
Ruby
C++
Perl
So I’m not going to attempt this until I get to college, but some potential candidates would be:
Italian -This would be fun to learn, and not hugely difficult as I’ve already taken classes in Spanish and Latin
Arabic -Would be very cool to know, especially the writing
Chinese -Incredibly useful, but incredibly difficult. I would learn Mandarin, not Cantonese
Japanese -Same as Chinese, but slightly easier and perhaps more interesting. Less people speak it though
German -I just think this would be so fun to speak
Spanish -By far the most common language on the list, and probably the most useful, but I’ve already tried it and didn’t like it.
Russian -A lot of people speak it, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff written in it.
Hindi -Another big language, but I don’t know enough about it yet.
