101 in 1001: The List

Start Date: 01 July 2018
End Date: 28 March 2021

Planning

1. Make a full transfer plan, including volunteering, campus tours, and standardised tests
2. Make a rough timeline of observance implementation (with intermediary steps)
3. Make a rough overall educational plan, including necessary “extras” (volunteering, research, etc.)
4. Make a detailed schedule for each term
   • Summer 2018
   • Fall 2018
   • Spring 2019
   • Summer 2019
   • Fall 2019
   • Winter  2020
   • Spring 2020
   • Fall 2020
   • Winter 2021
   • Spring 2021
5. Make a rough financial plan

Educational

6. Earn and maintain a 3.75 GPA by the end of Fall 2019
   • Current GPA: 3.5
7. Transfer to UCSC or Stanford (unlikely) for Fall 2020
8. Earn and maintain a 3.8 GPA by the end of Winter 2021
9. Get a minimum 520 MCAT
10. Somehow manage to do all this while observing all holidays

Health/Fitness

11. Lose 40 pounds by April 2019
    • Sub-goal 1: Lose 15 pounds by the end of summer 2018
12. Increase fruit and veg intake to recommended daily amounts by January 2019
    • Sub-goal 1: eat 1 serving of fruit/veg a day for a month
13. Increase water intake to recommended daily amounts by January 2019
    • Sub-goal 1: drink 16 oz water/day for a month (tea doesn’t count)
14. Get to ~15% body fat
15. Get in 15k steps per day (excluding shabbat/holidays)
    • Sub-goal 1: get in 5000 steps/day for a month
16. Get 7+ hours of sleep every night
    • Sub-goal 1: Be in bed, with the light off, without tech between 2200 and 0600 every night for a month
17. Meditate 5 min/day for a month
18. Get full learning disability assesment
19. Strength train 3 times a week for a year
    • Sub-goal 1: pick a strength training routine
20. Run 3 times a week for a year
    • Sub-goal 1: plan a ~5k running route

Observance

21. Settle on level of kashrut observance by January 2020
    • Sub-goal 1: don’t eat meat and dairy in the same meal for a month
22. Settle on level of shabbat observance by January 2020
    • Sub-goal 1: have shabbat dinner ever week for a month
23. Private
24. Private
    • Sub-goal 1: [goal] for one month
25. Learn Hebrew
    • Sub-goal 1: get through Hebrew primer
    • Sub-goal 2: study Hebrew 30 min/day for a month
26. Keep up with the Torah cycle in 5779
27. Kept open for future planning
28. Kept open for future planning
29. Kept open for future planning
30. Kept open for future planning

Cooking

31. Reduce eating out to once per week
    • Sub-goal 1: make dinner at home once a week for a month
32. Come up with challah recipe modification to replace sugar with honey
33. Find a way to recreate Tía Josefina’s Mexican food
    • Mexican rice
    • Pinto beans
    • Enchiladas
    • Chicken tamales
    • Sweet corn tamales
    • Bimuelos
    • Flour tortillas
    • More to be added as I think of them
34. Bake cupcakes/muffins once a month
    • June: triple chocolate experiment
      • Chocolate orange
      • Mint chocolate
      • Strawberry/Raspberry chocoalte
35. Experiment with school lunch options
36. Get a dehydrator and come up with dehydrated meals for travel/camping
37. Find the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe
38. Get my stand mixer fixed
39. Make ice cream from scratch
40. Finally figure out the perfect sugar/tea bag/steeping ratio for sweet tea
    • Get a glass dispenser for sweet tea

Appearance/Fashion/Clothing

41. Dye my hair rainbow for Pride month at least once
    • Find someone who can handle dying my hair without destroying it
42. Transition school wardrobe away from t-shirts and jeans
    • Possible exceptions for lab days
43. Start process for getting teeth fixed
44. Figure out and follow through with a skincare routine
45. Private

Hobbies

46. Finish brush lettering book
47. Finish Spencerian penmanship series
48. Paint 5 watercolours I actually like
49. Knit a sweater
    1. Sub-goal 1: unravel the sweater from 5+ years ago that almost certainly doesn’t fit anymore
50. Start and finish Project 365
51. Start and finish a Project Life book
52. Read 100 books in one year
53. Read all the books I own, but haven’t read
54. Write a novel
55. Reach 100 generations on Sim family
    • Reach 10 generations on a Sim family

Administrative

56. Renew my passport
57. Replace my ID
58. Get my driver’s license
59. Apply for a GPA renewal
60. Catch up on correspondance

Household

61. Make a chore schedule
62. Keep to chore schedule
    • Keep to chore schedule for 1 month
63. Finish refinishing bookcase
64. Buy bookshelves/cube organisers for craft area
65. Get rid of DVDs/videos/books that haven’t been unpacked in two years
66. Earthquake-ready bookshelves
67. Refinish entryway drawers
68. Order and put up more patio umbrellas
69. Clean up paint spill on patio
70. Organise pantry
71. Put together earthquake kit
72. Get spare tire and jack for car
73. Put together emergency kit for car
74. Organise clothes
75. Finally put up artwork

Adventures

76. Hike the PCT
77. Visit China
78. Visit Japan
79. Go to every Disney park in Asia
80. Hike to the top of Mount Whitney

History/Current Events

81. Get an Ancestry DNA test done
82. Get a 23 and Me test done
83. Put together a family tree
84. Read the newspaper at least weekly during the school term
85. Read the newspaper daily during summer

Planning/Journaling

86. Keep up with bullet journal
87. Post to bullet journal Instagram at least once a month
88. Find a weekly layout that works for me
89. Decide whether or not to keep up daily layouts
90. Attempt and decide whether or not to keep the following journals
    • Networking log
    • Non-fiction reading notes
    • Personal journal
    • Torah study notes
    • 101 in 1001 notes

Purchases

91. Break down and buy a new laptop
92. Decide what phone to get when the current one dies
93. Get a tablet for school
94. Decide whether or not to also get a convertible
95. Decide whether or not to break down and get a DSLR

Final Five

96. Take a photo every time a goal is accomplished (if possible)
97. Update list at least once a month
98. Post for each item completion
99. Put photos and summaries/print outs into 101 in 1001 scrapbook/Project Life book
100. Put completed scrapbook into time capsule until end of another 1001 days

Last One

101. Make a new 101 in 1001 list