New Year Resolutions in Fall by Richard O. '28
An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done
With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this list probably won’t get done anyways. So here are some things I wanna challenge myself with:
- Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge/Boston area
- Learn the Ukulele with my roommate
- Learn to play my brother’s violin
- Learn 3 new coding languages
- 3D print something
- Use a sewing machine for something
- Build 3 new things in the makerspaces
- Travel abroad 3 times
- Finish all my Psets at least 2-3 days before the deadline (This might be very ambitious)
- Do 50% of my Psets off campus
- Finish a whole Pset in one sitting with no breaks
- Actually learn how to spell Massachusetts without double checking myself
- Go chairing in the tunnels
- Spend a day at the Cambridge Public Library
- Spend a day at the Boston Public Library
- Visit Harvard at least twice a semester
- Get a Harvard Library Card
- Go snowboarding again
- Finish Neal Shusterman’s Scythe Trilogy
- Keep my new fish alive (upcoming blog)
- Pull an all nighter in a lecture hall
- Sleep before midnight on most days of the week
- Don’t lose any of my stylus pens, headphones, glasses, or keys
- Spend a day photographing Boston
- Ride the full length of the Red Line
- Attend all the lectures for at least one class
- Watch 5 Studio Ghibli movies
- Watch Oppenheimer
- Catch up on One Piece?
- Finish a podcast series
- Write a short story
- Take the time to learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube
- Take part in something advertised on Dormspam
- Attend a sporting event for another University
- Walk everywhere for a week instead of biking or using public transport
- Go a week without my headphones
- Go a day without using my phone, iPad, or laptop
- Watch the sun set and rise from the Green Building
- Take a day trip to New York
- Attend ring premiere and ring delivery
- Get my class ring
- Take a nap in the New House courtyard
- Take a nap by the river
- Take a nap on the Google rooftop garden
- Take a nap on Killian Court
I’ll probably add to this list as ideas come up and will let you all know which of the maybe 3 things on this list I actually accomplish by the end of the school year.