Things I want to do before I die. Please let me know if you have any recommendation.
Progress as of Oct 23, 2026: 4/60 done, 2 ongoing.
- ✗ Learn Mandarin
- ✗ Live in another country
- ✗ Start a nonprofit organization
- ✗ Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier conference
- ✗ Teach a graduate-level course
- ✗ Start a company
- ✗ Author a patent
- ✗ Design and publish a game
- ✗ Fall in love
- ✗ Build a home (a simple one, but it’s mine)
- ✗ Have a salad from my garden
- ✗ Become a parent
- ✗ Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
- ✗ Take a hot-air balloon ride
- ✗ Be in a submarine
- ✗ Swim a mile
- ✗ Run a half marathon
- ✗ Scuba dive
- ✗ Learn to ski
- ✗ Surf in Hawaii
- ✗ Fly an airplane
- ✗ Learn to drive a car
- ✗ Get a PhD (in CS, Neuroscience, or Psychology)
- ✗ Body transformation
- ✗ Publish a Python package
- ✗ Start a scholarship to support brave young kids
- ✗ Volunteer 1000 hours to help to the elderlies
- ✗ Start a research lab
- ✓ Take a walk in the rain
- ✗ Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
- ✓ Ask a stranger out (she said no)
- ✗ Sleep in a castle
- ✗ Sleep outside on the beach, under the sky
- ✗ Go on an African safari
- ✓ Camp in a desert
- ✗ See auroras
- ✗ Learn to salsa
- ✗ Learn to play a music instrument (tried 1x)
- ✗ Zero gravity
- ✓ Do stand-up
- ✗ Travel Southeast Asia
- ✗ Spend at least a month in Western Africa
- ✗ Sail around the Caribbean
- ✗ Eat sushi in Japan
- ✗ See Kashmir
- ✗ Stay with an Amazonian tribe
- ✗ Visit Vatican
- ✗ Visit 100 countries (0% done)
- ✗ Go to South Pole or North Pole
- ✗ Climb Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
- ✗ Climb Great wall, China
- ✗ Carnival in Brazil
- ✗ Watch a Broadway show in New York
- ✗ Watch bullfight in Spain
- ✗ Visit Googleplex
- ✗ Speak at TED
- ✗ See a comet
- ✗ Have my own ice cream flavor
- ~ Be awesome
- ~ Be kind