Top 100

Things that are probably worth doing before I die, with a sprinkle of memorable life events.

Last updated: April 9, 2025

Total:

1. ✓ Explore Sơn Đoòng (view below Wedding Cake)
2. ✓ Explore Sơn Đoòng x2 (came back for Hang Va in 2024)
3. ✓ Swim in Ha Long Bay
4. ▢ Climb Fanxipan
5. ▢ Climb Mt. Rainier
6. ▢ Hike the Grand Canyon
7. ✓ Visit Switzerland
8. ▢ Visit 30 countries (14/30)
9. ▢ Visit North Pole or South Pole
10. ▢ See Machu Picchu
11. ▢ See the Pyramid
12. ▢ See the Petra
13. ▢ See the Alps
14. ✓ Raft in a river (Korea 2016)
15. ▢ Ski in Japan
16. ▢ Obtain open-water scuba diving license (2 dives away; favorite dive was The Fish Factory in the Maldives with my brother in 2017)
17. ✓ See aurora (through a camera lens)
18. ✓ Surf in Hawaii (make sure to take a lesson next time)
19. ✓ See an Arsenal game (Mỹ Đình, 2013)
20. ✓ Drive a long road trip (212 miles, Boston → Burlington)
21. ✓ Speak at high school graduation
22. ▢ Get into a PhD program
23. ▢ Finish the PhD
24. ✓ Publish a paper at ACL
25. ▢ Get cited by mainstream news
26. ▢ Give an academic talk
27. ▢ Publish an open-source library
28. ✓ Win a Hackathon (x2)
29. ▢ Win a boxing spar (an amateur combo snippet)
30. ✓ Fall in love
31. ▢ Win a club tennis match
32. ▢ Bench 2 plates
33. ▢ Complete a half-marathon
34. ✓ Win college rugby league (Two-time champion with the Angry Young Newts)
35. ▢ Watch Wimbledon
36. ✓ Watch a Seahawks game (Lincoln Field 2019, Levi's Stadium 2025)
37. ▢ Watch a boxing match
38. ▢ Watch a pro League game
39. ▢ Go to a Billy Joel concert
40. ▢ Learn the piano (took lessons for 2 months)
41. ▢ Take a dance class
42. ▢ Meet a top ATP tennis player (ideally Federer/Nadal/Del Potro/Cilic/Kyrgios)
43. ✓ Meet a president
44. ▢ Live by a lake or ocean
45. ▢ Buy my parents a vacation
46. ▢ Start a company
47. ▢ Cook Phở with ease
48. ✓ Achieve Diamond+ rank in TFT/League (proof)

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