As some of you probably know, Mark Watson has just set up a Ten Year Self-Improvement Challenge through his blogs. I posted my goals on that blog (I’m one of the many 17 year old Stephs) but now I’ve thought about them a bit more I’ve made some additions/changes.
My long-term goals are quite predictable really:
- Be a (fucking awesome) doctor. I want to be able to know exactly what I’m talking about, and be able to just do it.
- Linked to that, I want to be more outgoing. I always try to put off phone calls, or get someone else to do it. By the 4th March 2020, I won’t have to do that. And I’m going to be less scared about going up to new people, especially boys.
- I want to actually cope with being independent too, although I’m managing to ease myself into that quite well with my gap year so I don’t think I’ll struggle as much as some people might.
- Finally, I want to think of other people a bit more and get better at taking their beliefs (and advice!) into consideration. I’m not exactly ego-centric, but I do have a habit of thinking I’m right when I’m often not.
More short-term things include:
- Find some more money for my gap year (and petrol, and the fringe, and everything else I have to pay for).
- Get my gap year website up and running and learn how to add in blogs and photo albums for me and Gemma.
- Get into uni (I realise the first goal is completely screwed if this doesn’t happen).
- Learn to drive, including steering properly.
I’ve already had quite a bit of progress on these. The website’s starting to come together, and I did a big sort out on Saturday of the little bits that had gone a bit wrong while making it, and I have pretty good ideas of how to do the blogs and photo albums. I got a car on Saturday too (it’s a silver Toyota Aygo 
) so that’s coming along too, although steering might take a bit longer. Although, I think I am getting better. I just want my car to come so I can practice more!
Money-wise, I have a job now at the local science centre, so I get to be a geek, make volcanoes and stuff and make money. Brilliant.
The uni stuff isn’t going as well though. On Thursday (the day TYSIC officially started incidentally) I got rejected from Edinburgh uni for medicine. I’ve moaned about it enough online already though so I won’t go into it. I was sad though, we’ll leave it at that.
