Goals
I've never really been much of a goal oriented person, but I've come to find out that goals are important. Life will feel pointless if you aren't working towards anything and you will have trouble finding what makes you happy. Goals also give you a way to measure your progress as you can look back on what you've accomplished. One more thing about goals is that they can help you decide if you are spending your time correctly. What I mean by that is that we can spend our time doing an infinite number of things, but it's best to spend your time working towards your goals. So, if I'm my doing homework, I know it's worth the time I'm spending because one of my goals is to get my degree. On the other side, if I spend twelve hours watching youtube, I know that's something that's hindering me reaching my goals and that maybe I should cut down on that.
That's not to say time spent doing fun, but pointless things are wasted. We all need a break sometimes. No one can spend all of their time working. However, there's a fine line between taking a break and over-indulging. Recently I've been spending most of my time doing school work and working on this website. School work isn't so fun, but I get all the work I need done on time. Making this site is a lot of fun, so I've definitely allocated more time into site work. Both work towards my goals so I'm happy with my time management right now.
The goals listed won't be in any specific order and I will mark them as complete when I finish them. I'll probably just delete them if I change my mind about a goal or fail to reach that goal. Sometimes things don't go as planned, so it's not good to dwell on the failures.
Finish This Site
My first goal is to finish the site. What I mean by that is I want to fill all the pages with a sufficient amount of content and put it on the internet. I have a basic idea of how to do it. I need to find some provider that hosts the website data and puts it up. I also need a domain to give the site an address. I think that's about it. One thing I'm not looking forward to is that I'm going to need to update all my image urls. The host is probably going to upload the images to some specific url that's different to what I have it set to right now. It's not that big of a deal, but it's just going to be a pain.
One thing that I would like to mention is that I wanted to make this site because of a certain individual who inspired me. One day I was looking up famous suicide notes for a school project and found out that someone left behind a website with stories about his life. I'll leave a link here so that you can see it too. I thought it was really cool and that I could use this to just have a record of my own life on hand. When I die, I also want to leave behind some memories of my life and I think this is a great way to do it. Also, if I have an untimely death and die in some accident, my family and friends will have something to remember me by.
Get My Bachelor's Degree
The next goal I have is to get my Bachelor's in Computer Science. I want to get a job as a software developer or anything to do with programming. Unfortunately a lot of people also want to do the same thing as me. I constantly see videos of people saying that coding jobs are harder and harder to get. I think I'll still be able to pull it off if I work hard enough. I mean, I know lots of people who are making a living with a major in History which I think is a lot harder.
So far I'm on track and I'm doing well in my classes this semester. I'm taking four classes: Computer Science, Chemistry, Calculus, and Composition. I'm just realizing now that these are all classes that start with C. Thankfully, I'm doing better than a C in all of them. Computer Science is weird because I'm doing well right now, but the final is worth more than half my grade, so am I really doing well? Chemistry is easier than I expected and I'm doing very well in that class. Composition and Calculus are about as hard as I expected. Calculus is my hardest class by far, but I'm still doing fine. One good thing for the future is that I've done every assignment in all my classes. For the longest time I've had a problem with doing homework, but I'm finally getting over it now and it's paying off.
Start a Family
At some point in my life I want to have kids and start a family. That's a big part of life that I would like to experience. Obviously that's far down the road for me because I still need to get a job and a long term relationship. Right now I'm working on getting into a relationship as my first step. Lots of people have this goal and just never do anything, but I'm different. The difference is that I am trying and failing. Recently I was rejected, but I learned a lot from it. I think that next time I'm going to pick someone who is more interested in who I am. I still think that it's better to not spend any time as friends and immediately start as dating because it gets complicated when you try and turn a friend into a girlfriend. Trust me, I've been there before.
I've been making good progress, so I'm not too worried about this goal. It's also very long term so I have plenty of time to learn. Some challenges in the future will be going on dates because I've also never done that before, so I'll probably have to get over being nervous about that. Also, I'm going to need to find time in my schedule to spend time with someone else. If I end up getting a girlfriend soon, I think I can reserve one weekend day for her every week. I probably can do more than that too, but I have to be careful with school because I absolutely have to succeed this time around.
Learn to Cook
Whenever I get a real job and I buy my own groceries with my own money and live on my own, I want to learn how to cook. I want to
learn to cook because I want to eat things that taste as good as fast food, but are healthier for you. I realize that it's a big
time sink to cook every one of your meals, but I'm ready for it 
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Not to mention that it's a good opportunity to listen to my music. I tried to learn cooking once during my time at UIUC, but I had two problems
with doing it there.
One of them was I always lived with someone else and I didn't want to be judged for my crappy cooking. It's not like any of the people I've lived with would do that, but it's about the principle. I don't like people seeing me in a moment of weakness and I don't think most people do. The other reason was that I could never decide on what I wanted to make or where to start. Next time, I think I'm going to find a cooking guide somewhere that outlines what you should learn first and work my way from there. If I can't find anything, I'll try and start with something that I like eating, like a crunchwrap.