- Finish strong with good grades in my last semester at Cornell
- Stay in touch with friends from Cornell after graduation
- Develop some sort of running schedule
- Stand at the edge of at least three different oceans within the year
- Get a better idea of the grad school opportunities that align with my interests
- Improve my ability to actually get out of bed in the morning
- Do crossword puzzles more often
- Refresh my knowledge of Flash
- Improve my video editing skills
- Pull no all-nighters
- Find a mid-weight jacket that I like and that isn't a North Face fleece or a peacoat.
- Go to a Major League Baseball game (for the first time in a while)
- Visit two states that I've never been to.
- Experience sunlight at midnight for the first time in my life
- Develop a better understanding of the costs and benefits related to specific organic foods
- Subscribe to blogs / newsletters from potential employers
- Learn more about internet strategy for non-profits
- Go to a churrascaria in the US
- Watch at least ten movies that were nominated for (or won) the Academy Award for best foreign language film
- Meet up with my cousins in Norway this summer
- Write postcards to friends from the places I visit
- Try to actually keep up with current 30 Rock episodes
- Back up important files (mostly photos) more often
- Start communicating with more people via Skype
- Visit and/or move to San Francisco
- Visit and/or move to Washington D.C
- Attend the Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference for the third year in a row; look for similar opportunities elsewhere
- Go dog sledding
- Take some film photos in addition to my digital ones
- See at least one of my favorite DJs perform
- Finally visit Cornell Career Services to see if they can provide any help in my job search
- Read about news in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries through local news sites rather than English language sources
- Upload more photos to Flickr from my pre-Flickr years
- Make an effort to reduce general clutter at my desk and overall living spaces
- Go to the Moosewood Restaurant at least once before graduation
- Fly on at least five airlines I've never flown on (extra points for OneWorld carriers).
- Start cooking more and eating out less
- Discard half-hearted collections of things that I've attempted to start over the years.
- Start a collection of small pieces of art from places I travel
- Sell a photo through Getty Images
- Seek out interesting parts of Cornell campus life to photograph during my last semester
- Improve my photo upload turn-around time
- Visit Morgan in Montréal one last time before graduation
- Go kayaking on Cayuga Lake
- Start playing tennis routinely again
- Try at least one new exotic fruit and one new exotic vegetable
- Improve my tolerance to spicy foods
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Visit a city in Canada that I haven't been to (Toronto? Vancouver?).
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- Start taking photos more frequently (with help of mobile phone)
- Set aside some time every day/week for leisure reading
- Prepare a meal using only ingredients from the Ithaca Farmer's Market.
- Teach myself how to sew
- Find ways to maintain my Spanish and Portuguese skills after graduation
- Subscribe to three new magazines
- Significantly reduce the amount of non-essential junk that I own
- Return to Chile and visit as many people as possible
- Get at least one photo printed on aluminum
- Work at Cornell Reunion 2010
- Find a job
- Visit extended family in Finland
- Go on at least one more Daily Sun sports photography road trip (hopefully to Harvard for hockey)
- Find and pursue and avenue by which I can remain connected to Cornell as an alumnus
- Gain a better understanding of microfinance
- Create a customized personal blog after my tenure as a "Life on the Hill" blogger comes to an end
- Go on a Finger Lakes wine tour
- Go to a concert in Barton Hall
- Go to more talks and lectures during spring semester
- Take more photos of the people I meet
- Develop a feasible turnover strategy for the IARD blog
- Make a photo book of my Cornell experience
- Create photo books of my trips to India and Portugal
- Learn more about off-camera lighting
- Learn some basic words and phrases in a new language
- Read one news article in Portuguese every day
- Read one news article in Spanish every day
- Get a negative/slide scanner and start digitizing
- Make my bed every day
- Integrate more fresh produce into my diet
- Gain a greater appreciation for and knowledge of wine and beer
- Get a photo sales system up and running at the Daily Sun before I graduate
- Learn the basic differences between Portguese Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese before going to Lisbon in March
- Watch at least one movie every two weeks
- Effectively train the next generation of senior photographers for the Daily Sun
- Print out a bunch of photos of friends and family
- Take a collection of self-portraits throughout the year, especially when traveling
- Take more portraits of friends
- Create a personal website...finally
- Develop a basic knowledge of CSS
- Set aside time each week to read
- Make meaningful connections with professors during my last semester at Cornell
- Learn one new Portuguese word per day
- Learn one new Spanish word per day
- Buy something on eBay
- Sell something on eBay
- Write to my Chilean host mother more often
- Visit a museum in New York that I've never been to.
- Prepare at least one Chilean dish
- Keep in touch with more friends from high school
- Improve my knowledge of personal finance
- Read a book in Portuguese, cover to cover
- Read a book in Spanish, cover to cover
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