#10before25

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Finish Highschool on

For many years my marks in school have not reflected my true capabilities. For those years, many things took their toll on my marks including mental illnesses, unknown dietary restrictions, and even a disorder with my uterus, endometriosis. I have hopes that since those have been identified and are getting treated that my marks will fully reflect my capabilities, and that this final semester I will be able to change my current average of 76 to one in the 80s or even higher.

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Have a Car

Whether it’s owning or leasing a car, I would like to have a car that is mine to use and care for. It would make visiting family much easier especially while in university. I don’t expect to own one for my first year in university but it would be useful for the following years, where I may not live in residence, and after I graduate.

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Get My Driver’s License

For most of my childhood I looked forward to turning 16 and finally getting my driver’s license, but after almost 2 years I still haven’t done my written examination. I would like to get my full license before I turn 25 so that I can have experience driving before I am on my own completely. I would also like it for the freedom of mobility, as of now I have many places that I want to go but haven’t gone because the transit route takes over an hour and my father, the only driver in my immediate family, is uninterested in the place and therefore him driving me would be an inconvenience. 

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Be Able to Run Up a Staircase Without Getting Winded

If you couldn’t guess from the actual goal then I don’t have the greatest stamina when it comes to stairs. I am not the least active person in the world and in all actuality I am a decently active dancer. despite this if I run up a staircase, the effort on those muscles causes me to become winded as they are not the exact same muscles that I use in most of my dance routines. I would like to be fit enough that if I am running late I can actually take the stairs to be faster when including time required to catch my breath.

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Get a Full Psychological Panel

All of my diagnosis have been from observation and many symptoms overlap. I would be interested in a full panel as my father and mother have different mental disabilities that have overlapping symptoms and I would like to know definitively what all I exactly have so that I can directly address these weaknesses so that I can reach my full potential. 

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Gain Work or Volunteer Experience in my preferred line of work

My current preferred line of work deals mostly with psychology and social work. I recognized that I may not be able to get a full time job in this field by the time I am 25 but I want to have experienced what it is like to be on the other side of that conversation than I am now so that I can be sure that this is really what I want to do for the majority of my adult life. I want to make sure that I don’t get to age 35 and realize that I hate the field and to get to the field I want that I have to go back to school.

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Work At The Same Job or Company for 1 Year

I grew up lucky enough to not have to work for my family to be financially stable in North York for 10 years and so up until now I have not had a job that I applied for and was interviewed for. I would like to have that experience before I’m 25 and even before I move out on my own. I would like to have that experience so that when I’m on my own I am full prepared for the responsibility of maintaining a household even if it is just myself and a roommate,as well as working and making money to be independent of my parents, even though I know they would not mind helping me for the first years of my adult life.

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Attend University

I am currently on path to attend university starting in the coming fall, but this goal is a more long term goal. By Attend University I mean that I would like to attend a full program of 4 years at a university. To achieve this I have only applied to courses that I know I am interested in. I also intend to visit each school I get accepted to before deciding where to study. I have decide this because I know that if i don’t like the area I live in I am not likely to want to stay or leave my home wherever that may be and that would result in me failing at my goal.