retro Goals
I like the responses I got for my "Resolutions" post yesterday. Thank you very much!
Coincidentally, yesterday after that post I downloaded a tool called "ljArchvie" which will download and archive your entire livejournal, including comments. I got it because a week or so ago I read that LiveJournal had been acquired by a Russian company, SUP, and I got to thinking what would happen if LiveJournal went away. I kinda like all the things I had written here and wanted to save them for myself.
Also, ljArchive has cool tools like being able to search your journal, and psycho-analyze it (I might post more on those findings, later...).
It also made it very easy to go back and read all of my posts, which I did. And I found that I seem to have a bit of a habit of making lists of goals. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten about most of them, until now.
First is this one, from just a couple months ago. They are actually the genesis of my "wishes" that led to my SMART goals that I posted yesterday.
The next one is this one, which I wrote during winter break in the middle of my escapade in graduate school. How'd I do? Well, I did my spring registration, and worked on my resume that I would eventually send to DAC (though I never took it to the career center). I know I eventually finished Freedom & Necessity, though I don't remember if it was then. I also "organized" all my old homeworks and notes, but that was just a couple months ago in 2007, not over winter break in '06. I got lazy and never read the Abstract Algebra chapters, and unfortunately I've yet to read either of
zephistopheles 's novels. Sorry.
Next one is a small list from the end of summer 2005. I'm happy to say that I eventually did all four of those!
Finally, there is a massive one from the beginning of summer 2005 that I had completely forgotten about, but which I think is most interesting to revisit.
I was good up to the "three months" mark, but after that my predictions started to fail:
Well that was an educational trip down memory lane!
Coincidentally, yesterday after that post I downloaded a tool called "ljArchvie" which will download and archive your entire livejournal, including comments. I got it because a week or so ago I read that LiveJournal had been acquired by a Russian company, SUP, and I got to thinking what would happen if LiveJournal went away. I kinda like all the things I had written here and wanted to save them for myself.
Also, ljArchive has cool tools like being able to search your journal, and psycho-analyze it (I might post more on those findings, later...).
It also made it very easy to go back and read all of my posts, which I did. And I found that I seem to have a bit of a habit of making lists of goals. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten about most of them, until now.
First is this one, from just a couple months ago. They are actually the genesis of my "wishes" that led to my SMART goals that I posted yesterday.
The next one is this one, which I wrote during winter break in the middle of my escapade in graduate school. How'd I do? Well, I did my spring registration, and worked on my resume that I would eventually send to DAC (though I never took it to the career center). I know I eventually finished Freedom & Necessity, though I don't remember if it was then. I also "organized" all my old homeworks and notes, but that was just a couple months ago in 2007, not over winter break in '06. I got lazy and never read the Abstract Algebra chapters, and unfortunately I've yet to read either of
zephistopheles 's novels. Sorry.
Next one is a small list from the end of summer 2005. I'm happy to say that I eventually did all four of those!
Finally, there is a massive one from the beginning of summer 2005 that I had completely forgotten about, but which I think is most interesting to revisit.
I was good up to the "three months" mark, but after that my predictions started to fail:
- Within six months (end of '05), I had figured out that grad school had been probably a mistake for me at that time.
- Within one year (middle of '06), I was done with grad school for the foreseeable future, though it had been a good year. Instead, I was starting a really good job with DAC.
- Within three years (middle of '08, which is coming up), I do have a clearer view of my life (as I laid on in my last post), and am financially independent. But my early departure from grad school compressed some of my later goals. As you can see, I was planning to be married (or close to it) to
anailia by the middle of 2010. She was having none of that waiting, however! and so we got married last April. I've started my career, but am not ready to start a family... yet (that's probably still in the "by 2010" time frame). - And getting my PhD by 2015, or be on my way to getting it... I still entertain that idea from time to time. But I think paying off my current student loans and saving for a house are more important goals right now. I'll pursue any continuing education after those are done, or at least definitely secured.
Well that was an educational trip down memory lane!