Bucket List

Things I want to do before I die

Things I want to do before I die. Please let me know if you have any recommendations. Thanks to Chip Huyen for inspiring me to write this bucket list.
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  1. ✓ See the aurora borealis
  2. ✗ Write a book
  3. ✓ Live in another country
  4. ✓ Learn Chinese
  5. ✗ Start a nonprofit organization
  6. ✗ Pick up a hitch-hiker
  7. ✗ Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
  8. ✓ Perfect my guacamole recipe
  9. ✓ Get published in Towards Data Science on Medium
  10. ✓ Build an iOS app
  11. ✗ Ride the gondala in Telluride
  12. ✓ Apply to Y Combinator
  13. ✓ Run a half marathon
  14. ✓ Run a marathon
  15. ✗ Learn how to play guitar
  16. ✗ Visit the red dunes of Sossusvlei, Namibia
  17. ✓ Go to the top of the Burj Khalifa
  18. ✓ Climb the Great Wall of China
  19. ✗ See the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
  20. ✓ Build my own music recommendation system using Spotify's API
  21. ✓ Dine at a Michelin star restaurant
  22. ✗ See the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland
  23. ✓ Eat a warm stroopwafel in Amsterdam
  24. ✗ Give a TED talk
  25. ✓ See a comet
  26. ✓ Eat sushi for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Japan
  27. ✗ Visit Kashmir
  28. ✗ Get published at NeurIPS
  29. ✗ Develop a (non-addictive) video game
  30. ✓ Do a cross-country road trip
  31. ✗ Re-build a burned bridge, making it stronger than before
  32. ✓ Immerse myself in the chaos of Shibuya Crossing
  33. ✗ Do a 24-hour fast
  34. ✓ Go on an African safari
  35. ✗ Build a brick oven
  36. ✓ Bathe in the Ganges river
  37. ✗ Create my own ML-based personality test
  38. ✗ Go on a silent retreat
  39. ✓ Visit Macchu Pichu in Peru
  40. ✗ Attend the Olympic games
  41. ✓ Ask a stranger out (went well!)
  42. ✗ Do a head-stand on a paddle board
  43. ✓ Fall in love
  44. ✓ Publish a Python package
  45. ✓ Teach a data science course
  46. ✓ Thank someone for changing my life
  47. ✗ Take a Master Class
  48. ✗ Get a PhD
  49. ✗ Experience zero gravity
  50. ✓ Have an authentic bowl of phở in Vietnam
  51. ✗ Bake Challah bread
  52. ✓ Rock out to Mumford and Sons in concert
  53. ✗ Go to Tomorrowland (EDM festival) in Belgium
  54. ✗ Help someone land their dream job
  55. ✓ Meet LeBron James
  56. ✗ Make a crossword puzzle
  57. ✗ Pull an all-nighter in a basketball court, balling with my bros
  58. ✗ Make a podcast
  59. ✗ Get my entire genome sequenced
  60. ✓ Hang out under an arch at Arches National Park
  61. ✓ Attend a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado
  62. ✗ Go to the Super Bowl
  63. ✗ Attend the Dunk / 3PT contest at All STar Weekend
  64. ✓ Do an international solo trip
  65. ✗ Fast for 24 hours
  66. ✗ Become an AirBnB host