Goodbye, 2011

2011 NYR'
1. Be Me.
2. Be sincere, be real. With my faith, with my parents, with my friends, with strangers.
3. Find a passion
4. Find a group.
5. Reserve judgment, be humbled
6. Love my family better
7. Be a better brother (not just biological)
8. Get good grades, Learn two more programming languages.
9. Exercise, be healthy
10. Budget better

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1. Who knows what that really is, but I'm definitely coming closer to it. The other day when I went to my roommate's birthday party and all the fraternity guys from Elder last year were there, I could just tell that it wasn't going to be my cup of tea. But it was definitely my roommates. That type of stuff...just isn't me. That said, I really should learn how to communicate better with those guys. Not really sure how, but these are probably the same type of people I'll be working with in the future, and I live in America, so I really should improve that. That said, there is something to be said about my Asian heritage.......so idk.

But overall, yes to this.

2. This is very vague. But my gut feeling says ...kinda. 2011 was a decent year for faith I guess, and I only say that because I never have consistent years. Everythings up and down. Given, there is SO much room for improvement (bigest understatement I've ever written), it wasn't bad. And for the place I was in when I was writing my 2011 NYR, and I'm much farther down then before.

Parents I need to work on. Yeah, again, there is much to improve, but I feel like I intentionally tried to spend more time with them. Whenever I hear John Mayer's song "Stop This Train" I think of my parents...sigh.

Friends. Yes and no. This selective friendship stuff I need to work on. There's just not enough time in life to befriend and invest in everyone. Then there are other people that I just don't click well with, and other people who just annoy me. Sigh...So this one is probably a no.

Strangers...if strangers means freshmen, then yes. I love the Class of 2015.

3. Find a Passion. Longboarding? Definitely the closest thing I got. Sigh...
Nope.

4. Find a group.
Eh sorta. Nothing like WCEC back home, but I know people now and I have my friends. So I guess the answer is no, but I'm okay with it.

5. Reserve judgment, be humbled.
Sigh, no. I still have much to work on. Reserve judgment? Man I hold on to these grudges...

6. Love my family better
I really do think I did this, just witnessed by my actions during Winter Break, I spent like 2/3 of the time with family, which is much more than I ever do normally. Sad I guess, but yeah I think I'm getting better about that. It's sad because (hopefully) I'll be doing something this summer, so really there's not much time left that I will be spending at home anymore.

7. Be a better brother.
yes.

8. Get good grades, learn to programming languages.
3.8, and Python, and Meta...lol. It counts I guess. I thought I said "learn two languages." Then I could count 中文。

9. Exercise, be healthy.
Rofl, this always happens on and off, not even worth it putting it as a NYR.

10. Budget better
Eh, idk. I got a job. I guess that's budgeting better. You can't have a budget if you only have money going out and no money going in.

Goodbye 2011, you were good to me in weird ways. Getting to know Jeff a lot more, Dan a lot more. Kev, John, and Ron much more. And getting to know the frosh has been awesome.

I am no longer a teen.