100 days of improvement

medical engineering, 18 dedicating the last 100 days until my bday to improve my life

[100daysofimprovement]

100 days of becoming the best version of myself

... until my 19th birthday

hi! my name is mica.

I'm starting my second semster as a medical engineer april and want to become a bioastronautic scientist at ESA. i want to speak 10 languages fluently by the time i am 28. i want to get accepted into MIT/Havard's MEMP bioastronautics programm. i want to teach myself how to code and take extra courses on aerospace engineering and neuroscience in my free time, because i can. i want to by fit and confident.

this is me getting my shit together to finally become the version of myself that i want to be - hot, fit, smart, and disgustingly ambitious and successful.

if something sounds impossible? I'm doing it.

my goals for the next 100 days

have 20kg of muscle mass and 21% body fat

work out 45 min 6 times per week

one 20 min mobility workout per week

meditate 5 min daily

stretch 10 min daily

run a 5k in 30 minutes

break phone addiction (<2h on my phone on average)

overcome binge eating

join my university's racing club

sleep >7h daily

read 10 pages every day

study at least 1 hour per day for uni

start going to therapy

feel better, emotionally and physically

I'm doing this for myself, to keep myself accountable. i have a dream, a vision, and i owe it to myself to see how far i can go if i don't give up and just put in the work.

100 days of self-improvement - let's go!

[100daysofimprovement]

okay, let's do this one more time.

hi! yes yes, i know what you're about to say. "mica, where have you been? you said you'd update!" and im terribly sorry, but life has been kicking me in the ass. repeatedly. seriously, i think I need 3 months of therapy just to process this past week.

but, spring is slowly but surely coming and march is right around the corner. I realized im closer to my 19th birthday than my 18th birthday (and seriously, what??? that's genuinely so crazy wtf). and I've decided that since my life has honestly been pretty shitty these past few months, that i would change something

my life can only become better if I put in the work. so, here we go again.

100 days of fixing my life, starting now

and hopefully, by the end, I will be happier, healthier, and feeling more alive than ever

[mindfulstudyquest]

gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

[body5000]

Sleep well, study well, stretch, exercise, cook good food, read a book, make art

I was feeling overwhelmed by all the things I want to do but all written out it seems so simple

[1938rebecca]

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in-depth self care assessment

what to do when you've had a bad day

gentle ways to get back on track

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emotions & actions

[100daysofimprovement]

hi everyone.

i haven't posted in so long but to be honest I can't even feel sorry about it, because the last months have been absolute shit. I'm feeling depressed and have anxiety attacks more times than I do not. yesterday I had such a bad panic attack that came out of no where that I thought I was suffocating. Im dissociated 80 percent of the time, which is only vaguely better than crying every day over nothing like i did in november and december.

i don't really know why my mental health has gotten so bad lately, but it has, and most days its a chore to simply get out of bed. I don't want to feel like this anymore, i want to live a life that I love and enjoy, where I don't feel anxious 30 seconds after waking up.

my finals start in February and I haven't really studied at all, and I'm not going to make any promises saying that I'll update daily or even weekly, but i will try to post some morr again. simply to keep me accountable.

thanks for everyone who believes in me <3

[thezenangel]

[bodhi-devotee]

don’t wait until you don’t feel like crap. do it feeling shitty, do it scared, do it tired, just do it. the perfect conditions will never provide themselves to you, you have to grab the conditions youre in and make it work. anything worth being proud of won’t come easily, and i think you can build a practice worth being proud of

[100daysofimprovement]

OCTOBER 21st 2025 | DAY 29/100

went on a run this morning, therfore starting the 9 week plan to reach 5k by the end of the year. I'm very excited!!

went to uni and attended three lectures

had to take a nap during one of my breaks because i was literally falling asslep during class

went to my unis immatriculation party? event? thingy? which was boring, but i got a minature duck which made everything okay again

networked with a lot of people, also my university's car racing team again

went to the supermarket with my parents and bought dinner, which consists of grilled cheese, chicken nuggets and tortellini

bought a mango and got to hold it on my lap all the way home, which made me very happy :D (the bar for a good day was low, okay?)

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OCTOBER 19th 2025 | DAY 27/100

went to a pumpkin field with my parents and we picked some pumpkins to carve on Halloween

we also went to a corn maze and successful found our way out again, while also picking some corn to feed to the birds at home

baked pizza with my parents which was super tasty and also watched an episode of the horror series we are currently obsessed with

made a plan to start running and be able to run 5k by the end of the year. agshwh I'm excited and nervos

technically unproductive but super chill and fun day with my parents! I set my phone to black and white this evening because I'm getting fed up with the amount of time I spent on my phone

[100daysofimprovement]

OCTOBER 18th 2025 | DAY 26/100

didn't do much besides working a 9 hour shift. my boss made a mean comment about the croissant I brought to work and I felt insecure about myself for the whole day afterwards. also really made me realize that I've been slacking on my workout routine and have put on a lot of weight

(note - that's not a bad thing and I know my weight doesn't say anything about my worth and there are countless people with a higher fat percentage than me who are very pretty but it's still something I'm insecure about)

[100daysofimprovement]

it's not impossible. it's not too difficult. it's not going to ruin your dream.

it's just new. give yourself time and keep going.

[100daysofimprovement]

OCTOBER 16th 2025 | DAY 24/100

studied some spanish vocab on brainscape on my way to uni and to work

missed my first lecture cause i thought the lecture was cancled but it was not and i almost cried

went to my training module for technical mechanics, quickly solved the problems (they were basically just mathematics and not kinematics) and then tried to teach myself the things that were thought in the lecture that i missed

had a lecture on advanced mathematics and actually understood the topic

had some time to kill before going to work, so I reviewed some of the things we learned on monday in advanced maths

worked for 6 hours, which was a bit boring, but when i didn't have customers i reviewed the things i didn't understand from technical mechanics and solved some simple exercises

had a fluent conversation with spanish family at work and helped them choose the products they wanted!! I'm so proud of myself. they even said my spanish was great

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OCTOBER 15th 2025 | DAY 23/100

wanted to wake up at 6.00 AM to study math and did, then realized that if i didn't sleep at least a bit longer i wouldn't survive the day and stayed in bed until 7.30 AM

drove to uni and didn't have motivation but wanted to do something productive so i read fanfiction in spanish. yes, this counts as studying

had a lecture on experimental physics which was actually pretty understandable and interesting

had lunch with a friend and chatted a bit <3

attended my second lecture on manufacturing process. I'm telling you, i didn't understand anything, but at least the prof is funny

went home and wanted to study math but ended up being on insta for 2 hours

had my first medival swordfighting class! which is still find wild. it was very interesting and engaging but i already new some movements because i used to do martial arts when i was younger

came back home, drank some tea and studied math for 2 hours to make up for not studying previously

started reading a book on technical mechanics because that's the lecture i had most problems with (discounting manufacturing)

I'm so fucking sleepy guys. this isn't normal anymore. I'm seriously contemplating just gulping down a monster every morning because i am barely functional, i need to fight to stay awake

[100daysofimprovement]

i just met somebody who has the exact life that i want to have and something in me just clicked.

my dream isn't insane or "out-there". it's not even that extraordinary, actually. I'm not special for dreaming and having goals and imagining how great I'll feel when I accomplish them and then doing nothing for three days. you aren't either.

you shouldn't put your dreams on a pedestal and make it seem like this "great, crazy, basically impossible" thing. cause in the end, that's what will make you never achieve your goal.

yeah, your dream is cool. your dream is sort of incredible and it would be great to achieve it. but it's not extraordinary.

in fact, it's ordinary. it's possible. hell, it's even likely if you do the right things and make the right choices.

a dream is a blueprint. and you can stare at it all you want and say to yourself "I'm so amazing for having created this blueprint" or "well, good job creating the blueprint!" and not actually do anything with it. a blueprint is only useful to write down your thoughts and seeing what you need to build the machine.

a dream is the blueprint to building your dream.

but you do actually need to get up and build the fucking machine. to drop the metaphor, what I'm talking about is that you need to realize that your dream isn't actually worth anything... if you don't act on it.

and that's what i meant with "your dreams are ordinary". they need to become daily life. your dream is possible, hell, inevitable, because doing the things you need to do to achieve your dream aren't insane. they are just actions you take in your daily life. that doesn’t take the magic away - it just makes it real.

your dream is now. acting on your dream is now. building yourself, growing, doing, putting in the goddamn work - thats all there is.

there is nothing wrong with dreaming. fuck, you should dream. you can't effectively build the machine without the blueprint. but you need to decide...

do you want to be a person who only dreams?

or one who builds?

[100daysofimprovement]

OCTOBER 14th 2025 | DAY 22/100

woke up at 7.30 AM and had a nice cozy breakfast before going to uni

attended a lecture on theory of design and machine elements, which was a bit boring but alright

completed an online test i need to pass to be accepted for my math final with a group of friends i made at uni. i scored 44/47 points :>

attended another lecture about technical mechanics, but ended up teaching myself the topics because the prof didn't explain it well

had some free time, so i studied and reviewed some anatomy before my anatomy lesson, because i had already taught myself the topics we were going to talk about some months ago. so basically i just took some notes and reviewed things

had a super chill anatomy and physiology lecture and the prof even brought a skeleton! it was super fun and interesting and chill because i already knew everything thanks to reviewing the topics beforehand

very productive day, though i woke up feeling super tired and my belly has been hurting for 5 days. i will try to wake up earlier tomorrow to work out a bit - that's something I've been slacking on

[100daysofimprovement]

OCTOBER 12th 2025 | DAY 20/100

i had a sleepover yesterday and stayed awake until 6.00 AM because i couldn't fall asleep (probably the energy i drank. yikes). woke up at 10.00 AM but my fitness watch said i only slept one hour. didn't feel tired but it's probably gonna show up tomorrow

basically just hung out some more with some friends. we started a new series which was super cool and also had some pillow and tickle fights. i lost dramatically xd

drank a tea to help me fall asleep

didn't do much more actually, spent some time with my parents and thats all

technically unproductive but very nice and relaxing day. especially because tomorrow my lectures will start!!