So these are all the things I’d like to do before I die:
- make a playlist for rainy afternoons that is long enough for me to last weeks of it
- listened to all the 1001 songs to listen to before you die, all of them in the right contexts e,g, on vinyl in the summer
- tasted and compared various recipes for Scouse
- eaten all the classic dishes of the North and Scotland
- learned to surf properly
- write a layman’s guide to particle accelerators so everyone can enjoy them too
- been an extra in a film, preferably a period drama or fantasy
- taken my Dad to see Friday Night comedy live in the studios
- seen The Killers in concert
- seen Vampire Weekend in concert
- seen Arcade Fire live in concert
- worked in Glastonbury
- typed up all of my poems and published them all somewhere
- written a complete setlist of songs from my guitar
- actually completed a patent application for at least one of my inventions
- read all of the BBC Big Read List and other classics
- spent at least a couple of days in the city of York
- lived for at least a week in Cornwall
- learned to speak some basic Irish Gaelic
- visited Kilkenny
- visited Trilee
- not visited Edinburgh Castle until my graduation day
- completed my Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award
- completed my Beaver Scout leader basic training
- read all the books on my book list ->
- watched all the cult films on my films list ->
- seen lots of different theatre plays
- written a complete play and put it into production
- written a radio musical
- written a stage/film musical (could actually adapt the radio musical)
- learned some basic beekeeping
- read all the Sandman comic books
- watched the complete boxset of M*A*S*H
- spend a longer time in Bratislava
- learn to speak more basic Czech or Slovakian
- completed my MEng degree properly
- given a TEDx or actual TED talk
- created a viral video or meme
- completed the World Solar Vehicle Challenge (as in build the vehicle, not driving it)
- been on the world’s largest zipwire
- completed writing my novel
- finished designing and building my board game Belief
- studied or worked in Antarctica
- published at least 2 scientific papers in well reputed journals
- written a letter to several of my favourite authors to see if I can get a reply
- complete the whole of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (not on a 3DS though)
- complete the whole of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (again, not on a DS)
- learn some basic taxidermy skills
- learn the whole of The Rime of The Ancient Mariner off by heart
I appreciate that all these things are subject to some sort of change (by which I really mean I’ll be always adding more things and removing them as I complete them of course) but I don’t actually care if any of the creative things are particularly unsuccessful and I have no desire to do a lot of these things professionally because, well I like engineering more and that is why I’m pursuing that as a career. These are just all the things I’d like to do on the side, even if only in an incredibly amateurish context. For example I am hoping that I’ll be able to produce my scripts for stage while I am at university and can put things into production through Bedlam Theatre, the Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s theatre.
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