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Topic #21: What’s the single most important thing you accomplished in 2010? And how do you plan to top it in 2011 (perhaps by completing your blogging challenge!)

I think that the single most important thing I accomplished in 2010, although its preparation spanned over many years, is getting into a sufficiently successful university. Although not as high-ranked of a university as I was hoping for, it is still of an acceptable level from my viewpoints.

Of course, getting into university did not just happen in 2010. All throughout my four years of high school, I have always had the thoughts of preparing for university in the back of my mind. Although I wasn’t exactly a top student grade-wise, I still got good-enough grades to get me into the university that I’m in now. I participated in enough extracurriculars and achieved high-enough positions in these activities to receive recognition for my work.

The main reason I thought this was still something that applied under an important thing I did in 2010 is because I did all of my application work in 2010. I looked through the Common Application used by many universities across the nation before 2010, but it was in 2010 that I actually started filling them out and writing the essays. And of course, it was in 2010 when I actually submitted them and got the responses from the universities I applied to.

I think this is the single most important thing I did in 2010 because of how important university will be to me in the future. It’s necessary to have a degree at a credible college or university to even get a job these days, let alone get one that pays well and will allow me to live a better life in the future. Not only that, in addition to a degree, hopefully I’ll get useful, applicable information that I can use later on in my life to be adept and capable at a wider range of tasks.

I don’t think I’ll be able to top the act of getting into university in 2011, seeing as these massive turning points of my life only come along once every handful of years. However, I can contribute to a future turning point in my life by performing well in my classes at university. I guess completing my blogging challenge will also be an important accomplishment, as it’ll help me develop writing skills (seeing as these prompts require more than just the comical writing I normally do) and get me used to following a daily schedule.

UPDATE: I got a handful of people asking me what university I go to, and I realized that I forgot to include it in my blog post, so I decided to edit this post and add it in. As of right now, I go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and am studying to get a Bachelor of Science degree.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 8

Number of times I did my own laundry: 0