Assignment #18 - Irene Kim - Bucket Lists

High School Bucket List:
- Get my driver's permit (yes, I'm 17)
- Finish piano festivals with KMTA
- All the academic stuff (GPA, improve ACT score, pass AP exams?)
- Reconnect with old friends & make new friends
- Make a snowman that looks like Olaf
- Clean the house using Marie Kondo's method

College Bucket List:
- GET A DOG (or goldfish at least)
- Be good friends with my dormmate (hopefully!)
- Study abroad in Europe or Korea
- Go to a concert and don't die
- Learn guitar

Life Bucket List:
- Have a family, adopt a pet
- Have a stable job that I enjoy
- Be vocal/active about issues you care about
- Travel to all 50 states
- Own a lot of socks and be proud of it
- Get a grand piano & practice it every day
- Have no (or little) regrets about my life choices overall
- Have no regrets about my parents' & my relationship

The most important item on my high school bucket list is (I hate to say it) but the academic stuff. For the sake of applying to college, I would like to improve my ACT score and pass my AP exams, but I really don't think that will be the case. I'll try to, but if it doesn't happen, that's okay! I just hope I can look back at high school later and see it as a generally good time in my life.

For college, obviously schoolwork and friends would be the top priority, but the items I listed are mostly just random. Out of those, it would be studying abroad in Europe or Korea. If an exchange program allows me to study in or just travel to Korea, that would be amazing. Since my whole extended family lives there, we don't get to see them often, so getting to see them and experience the culture while studying there would be pretty great!

For life in general, I really don't know. All of my answers have been somewhat generic (aaaa sorry!) but I think it's most important that I end up with no regrets. I would hate to be sitting on my deathbed and regretting every decision I've ever made! I am naturally not a risk-taker, but I hope to start stepping out of my comfort zone, so that I don't regret not taking chances after they pass. Whether this ends up being with a family or being single with a bunch of dogs, or in a big city or still in Lexington, I have no clue. Whatever happens, I hope I took some risks and can say that I have no regrets in the end!