- Climbed a mountain.
- Got a tattoo.
- Saw a meteor shower.
- Baked a cake entirely from scratch.
- Learned to read Latin.
- Made a quilt.
- Saw Mt. Fuji.
- Went to a sumo match.
- Got lost in a foreign city (with no knowledge of the language and without a smartphone).
- Navigated a foreign city (with no knowledge of the language and without a smartphone).
- Drank butterbeer.
- Caught fireflies.
- Eaten blueberries right off the bush.
- Caught a fish.
- Rode an elephant.
- Rode a train.
- Rode a bullet train.
- Visited Times Square at night.
- Saw New York City from the top of the Empire State Building at night.
- Walked across the Great Lawn in Central Park.
- Rode a New York subway.
- Saw the Statue of Liberty.
- Found the sea lions in California.
- Saw the pandas at the San Diego Zoo.
- Ate an Owakudani black egg in Hakone.
- Adopted a puppy from the Humane Society.
- Visited the Southermost Point of the continental U.S.
- Bought Mackinac fudge on Mackinac Island.
- Got a pedicure.
- Skipped class.
- Changed the genetics of bacteria to make it glow in the dark.
- Learned to knit.
- Waited in line at midnight for the release of a new Harry Potter book.
- Petted a stingray.
- Bottlefed a baby goat.
- Got a standing ovation.
- Watched the sunrise over the Atlantic.
- Watched the sunset over the Pacific.
- Managed a charity drag show.
- Graduated college.
- Got accepted to graduate school.
- Drank from the Fountain of Youth.
- Had my palm read by an impossibly old man in Key West.
- Snorkeled in the Dry Tortugas.
- Auditioned for and performed in the Vagina Monologues.
- Been in the eye of a cyclone.

