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Hello teamliquid, I would like to take this moment out of your days to discuss an issue that has been bugging me for quite some time. I will be starting my freshman year of college in two days, and I was wondering if any of you have shared with me something that is quite disappointing.
My failed summer goals.
The day after I graduated high school I was estatic to have all this free time to learn new things and have great experiences! Hours between teamliquid, 4chan, minecraft/trackmania, later what do I have to check off my checklist?
Unfortunately, nothing. So I would like those of you that are reading this to list your failed summer goals so that maybe one summer we can actually do some of them instead of sitting on the internet all day.
Here are mine:
Learn to juggle
Learn to play guitar
Hike a nearby mountain
Get my license
Volunteer/get a job
What are yours?
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Luckily, I've already accomplished all the dreams I've ever had as a child.
Unfortunately, I was not a very forward-thinking child.
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Over the summer, I really wanted to create a really epic piece of digital art. Unfortunately working full time means having little spare time. I also wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize. That didn't work out so well.
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This would definitely get more attention in General Chat :o
Didn't workout as much as I wanted
Didn't keep up with the news as much as I wanted
Haven't played SC2
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Get a job
Play more SC2 ladder games than UMS (Damn you Harvest Earth)
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I had one big goal, do something ! Anything ! asasdgdgad failed.
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Talking about summer goals here.. I wanted to buy a new car and also take this girl (really good friend that we are very attracted to each other with, but don't want a relationship) for a vacation somewhere. Well i haven't bought the car, fucked up pretty much everything and lost a huge amount of money. We can consider it a good summer i would say.
* i also wanted to get to B ranks on iccup and begin working out again
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I'm just going to go off of yours.
Learn to juggle
No desire
Learn to play guitar
Already been playing for 12 years
Hike a nearby mountain
Check, although not as many as I'd have liked...you still have time to go hike a mountain go do it!
Get my license
I'm 22...so check
Volunteer/get a job
Been looking for a "real" job seeing as I just finished my degree so I guess I can't check this one off yet =/
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On September 04 2010 05:04 Torture wrote:
I'm just going to go off of yours.
Learn to juggle
No desire
Learn to play guitar
Already been playing for 12 years
Hike a nearby mountain
Check, although not as many as I'd have liked...you still have time to go hike a mountain go do it!
Get my license
I'm 22...so check
Volunteer/get a job
Been looking for a "real" job seeing as I just finished my degree so I guess I can't check this one off yet =/
lololol
Learn to juggle
my schedule ? Check, kind of , but no circus skills : (
Learn to play guitar
graduating soon with a degree in the performance of it
Hike a nearby mountain
Check, though not as many on my own as I would have liked.
Get my license
I'm 21...so check
Volunteer/get a job
Playing guitar is my job : )
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Get through my SAT-prep book.
Find a mentor for a program. :'(
I STILL HAVE 3 DAYS LEFT.
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I didnt get myL for drivers licence. im 19.5 years old!
did get a job and into a good program for uni tho.
also got tanned.
didnt get laid  whole summer thats 3 years now.
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I was supposed to teach myself all of Calc 1, only got into implicit differentiation which is like 1/2 way I think. I was supposed to study for the SAT so that I could get a 2100, Hopefully I can still pull that off tho cuz the test isn't till oct 9th. Oh well... =\
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failed my road test. so yeah, i failed to get a license.
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Learn to juggle - Learned back in 7th grade, my teacher taught us, so baller
Learn to play guitar - no real desire, I used to know how to somewhat play when I was younger
Hike a nearby mountain - I did a 5day 75km hike on West Coast trail, parts of it were on mountains, it was painfully good ^_^
Get my license - I'm forcing myself to learn how to drive
Volunteer/get a job - I took summer courses and have quite a bit of money saved up from previous jobs, so I wasn't really feeling like getting a job
My other goal was to play SC2 a lot, so far I think I'm doing ok at it ^_____^
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My main goal this summer was to get a really good job, and even after only working 2 months i can pay for all of my schooling this year and rent so check check check!
my other was run a marathon and that also happened, it wasnt my first one but damn those are fun
got my class 5 this summer too, so that was awesome
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All of those goals are fairly easy to accomplish. Getting a job might be difficult in this economy (volunteering is not) and getting your license takes a while, but I bet that with dedication you could juggle 3 balls, play 3-4 chord songs on guitar (about 80% of all pop songs) and have hiked the nearest mountain within the next week, so long as you aren't desperately out of shape.
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Sighs.... what a waste of summer all of ours were... oh, speaking of which, an ideal list of summer that did NOT happen.....
To get a 6 pack, or even a 4 pack, or 2.... working out...
To get a a paid internship or even any one (got one now but also wanted summer one..)
To find an ideal girlfriend
To learn how to play guitar
To be e-famous
To teach Korean in a webcast (I will still but tba)
To win the lottery and be rich
To start a video games music/talk radio show in summer (delayed to fall...)
To be knowledge of using media related equipment
To learn and master any and all sorts of editing program
To learn how to make people laugh and be on a starting road of a comedian
To enjoy and have fun
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Failed to finish research project by Summer's end (have ~1.5 weeks left) >_<
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ah. Failed summer goals here too.
1) Learn some Korean. (for SC awesomeness.)
2) Get a job/get money. I want some money to spend, otherwise my summer would basically have gtone to waste.
3) Hit C on ICCUP. I basically lost my desktop on which to play, which kept giving me excuses for not laddering at all so much that I couldn't even hit C- this past season, and with school starting soon, I don't know how much time I'll have to spend playing SC.
Things I DID do.
I built a table out of MDF and Ikea legs and painted it, Thats cool
Finally probably fixed a water leak in my car. Nice to not drive a fishbowl around town.
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get good at starcraft 2 (scary)
get good at starcraft BW (to hard)
hang out with more than 1 friend (no time)
learn to skateboard (wasnt even close)
start working out (lol)
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learn to do a back tuck
get a 6 pack D:
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Work out
Learn guitar
Pass my road test (technically not my fault, just couldn't schedule one)
Review japanese before classes start again
Fix my korean sleeping schedule
Oh well, there's always next summer :/
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- fuck several girls at 1 time
-Get drunk with friends several times.. (only happened like once..)
-Work out.. Fuck that, I wanna play Starcraft
-Get adopted by fakesteve (he didn't hold true to the deal..)
I am a very lonely nerd...
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Read a book.
Not play SC.
Go outside of town.
Restart working out.
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LOL u never go outside of town? XD
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Get a girlfriend... this has been on my mind of late and its effed cause for the past two days I've been dreaming of the girls that I've had some sort of relation with in the past (one per day and they're all happy ones o.o) - its scaring me cause it must be a sign of something.
I still need to get SC2... I'll probably get this tomorrow just to play with my buddies who are leaving to other post-secondary institutions.
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On September 05 2010 06:14 exeexe wrote:
LOL u never go outside of town? XD
One of my unlisted ones was go outside of my room :/
jk, but today I just started playing around with a guitar, hopefully I can catch on and learn how to play
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job? failed.
license? failed.
gf? failed.
... summer sucked.
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get a job - failed (no time moving, visiting father in England)
get a driving lessons - still working on it not done yet but it looks nice.
get a blow job by/from? 1 brunet cop and 1 blond fire lady at the same time - totally failed - in this new village is not even one girl in my age :D
get a new bike and starting practicing even hardly than any time before - kind of failed, just going to buy one this week..... or next one :D
start learning german to pass this year in school - i didnt even see my books and i feel this year will be hard to pass in this fucking nazi language !
just 2 things went well.
1. visiting England and 1st time fly : )
2. get money by playing SC2 (get 10euros from killing my own mates on lan :D)
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get good with Japanese (lol...)
save enough for tuition (not even close...)
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Failed at completing or even starting my Brood War AI project.
But did succeed at something that might show up soon! If I'm lucky and/or people are impressed.
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I wanted to have six pack abs by the time I started college. I think I overestimated how much I could do in 4 months. I don't feel bad about it cause I did get in much better shape 
Learn guitar: Learned all the major and minor chords and 4 scales backwards and forwards. Not bad.
Learn to juggle: Fuck that.
Get a job: Impossible.
Hike a Mountain: Done.
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go to japan - check
learn for exams - on it
play lotsa poker and build bankroll - failed horribly, did play though
go out more - failed
ride bike every day - failed (not even once)
learn keyboard - failed (didnt even get a keyboard)
improve in QL - semi check
write a new game engine - failed
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i wanted to get in shape, get a tan, learn to wakeboard... i ended up working for 12 hrs a day almost the whole summer so didnt get to do any of that... maybe next summer i'll learn to wakeboard!
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On September 05 2010 06:14 exeexe wrote:
LOL u never go outside of town? XD
Just like you never go outside of D rank, yes.
Well, it kind of depends what one considers outside of town... more than 150km outside of town at least.. I guess what I really meant was "go to another country".
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"Last longer" - status undetermined.
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On September 06 2010 11:28 YPang wrote:
"Last longer" - status undetermined.
What is that supposed to mean? lol
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On September 06 2010 12:37 Loser777 wrote:What is that supposed to mean? lol
em, think sex
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get a job: got 2
get a gf : close but still no
working out: pretty happy with the results
have fun : hellll yes!
This summer was awesome!
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Start driving.
Do summer homework.
P90x
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