Buckets and Buckets - Emily Salamanca

Welcome to your first blog prompt for 2015! Yay!

A bucket list is a list of everything you want to accomplish before you kick the bucket. That doesn't mean you can't have such a list for specific aspects of your life as well.

To begin the year, generate your own bucket lists - one for high school, one for college, and one for life. Then, write about the priority on each list.

High School 

-take all of my AP tests

-get my score up on the ACT

-get my score up on the SAT

-get all As

-take AP Euro and AP Art History next year

-control my anxiety better

-learn to drive alone

-get a summer job

-live up to my older siblings

My number one would probably be just to control my anxiety better. I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, so maybe that will help a little to know that I am a little sick. Still, I want to be able to have fun in school without worrying whether I will be able to make it through the day without crying. I'm so lame and I know that, but I just want to be able to live freely again. This connects easily with learning how to drive and graduating (which I didn't put on there, but the next question implies that I will reach that stage in life.) I think that putting things like test goals up on here is just setting yourself up for misery and failure. If you are looking for a 36 on the ACT and a 5 on all AP tests, then you are sacrificing so much time and money and emotional energy on fixated numbers. There is no way I would want to be around this kind of person. It's unhealthy.

College

-take a semester or two abroad

-take a class that I want to take and not just one that is required

-decorate my dorm

-stay in touch with high school friends

-continue working at summer camp

-get an internship

-redo my closet

My number one would be to take a semester or two abroad. I want to learn languages. I want to know other cultures. I think, as of right now, I want to go into linguistics and so I think I should be able to travel with a major in that degree. I am excited even thinking about getting away from here and wherever I choose to go.

Death

-have a family

-live in a city

-never give up my odd sense of fashion

-be happy

I think my biggest one would be to have a family. I really like the idea being like my mother. She's so sweet and caring and I admire her so much. Thus, it seems so simple now, but the happiest thing for me would be to have a loving family.