Inspired by Chip Huyen’s List 100. Life’s short - here’s what I want to do with it.

1. Trek the Himalayas
2. Hot air balloon in Cappadocia
3. Broadway show in New York
4. See the Big Five on an African safari
5. Visit the Pyramids of Giza
6. Get scuba certified
7. Learn skiing (first runs at Summit at Snoqualmie, WA) and snowboarding (fell a lot at Sierra at Tahoe, CA)
8. Get a pilot’s license
9. Visit Eiffel Tower (ICCV’23 brought me to Paris)
10. Cherry blossoms in Japan
11. Fall foliage in Vermont / Maine
12. Visit the North Pole
13. Visit the South Pole
14. Stay in a tree house
15. Watch Aurora with someone I love (went for red rocks, got northern lights — Arches National Park)
16. Experience zero gravity
17. Attend a football game in Europe
18. Solo backpacking in another country (wandered through Heidelberg, Germany)
19. Foreign internship (summer in Singapore during undergrad)
20. Attend a Coldplay concert
21. Hike Amazon rainforest
22. Skii in Switzerland
23. Hike Grand Canyon
24. Sky diving
25. Bungee Jumping (160m drop in Pokhara, Nepal)
26. Write a biography
27. Publish in a top-tier conference (ECCV’20, virtual but still counts)
28. Omakase in Tokyo
29. Authentic pizza in Naples
30. Oktoberfest in Munich
31. Watch a show at Sydney Opera House
32. Learn to play an instrument
33. Read 1000 books
34. Visit all continents (3 / 10)
35. Cruise on the Nile
36. Route 66 East to West Coast (Pittsburgh to San Francisco, 8 days on the road)
37. Visit all US states
38. Visit all Indian states
39. Dine in the sky on Burj Khalifa
40. Cave kayaking
41. Hike Machu Picchu
42. Climb Mount Fuji
43. Paragliding
44. Buy a Tesla (a dumb childhood dream)
45. Walk the Great Wall of China
46. Sunset at Taj Mahal
47. Attend a traditional tea ceremony
48. Watch magic in Vegas (David Copperfield — some of us never stopped believing in magic)
49. Stay in an overwater bungalow
50. Go dog sledding in Lapland
51. Go whale watching (spotted humpbacks at Channel Islands NP, CA)
52. Party at Rio carnival
53. Float in the Dead Sea
54. Swim in the Great Barrier Reef
55. Attend a rave (Hocus Pocus, Miami — now I get it)
56. Give a TED talk
57. Desert safari in Dubai
58. Explore the caves in Vietnam
59. Visit Banff National Park
60. Guest lecture at a university
61. Visit 20 national parks in the US (15 / 20)
62. Go on a solo hike
63. Go shark cage diving
64. Wine at Napa Valley (Castello di Amorosa — turns out I’m a wine person now)
65. Visit 10+ ski resorts (3 / 10)
66. Visit a tulip farm (endless colors at Roozengaarde, WA)
67. Tour the Colosseum
68. Tour the Louvre museum
69. Michelin star date
70. Psychedlic or mind expanding retreats
71. Try sandboarding
72. Sleep on the beach under the stars
73. Author a patent
74. Camp under the stars in a desert
75. See a comet with the naked eye
76. Watch a meteor shower (Geminids on a freezing night near Pittsburgh)
77. Run a marathon
78. Watch a rocket launch in person
79. Stargazing in Hawaii
80. Watch a football game in Spain
81. Get featured in a news channel or newspaper
82. Have a centibillionaire come see your work (Jeff Bezos — can’t say more)
83. See Earth from space
84. Northern Lights in Alaska
85. Meet Elon Musk
86. Meet Demis Hassabis
87. Party in Ibiza
88. Watch a volcano in Guatemala
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