List 100

Things I want to do before I die. 95 so far — the goal is 100, but I'd rather grow the list deliberately than pad it. Recommendations welcome at maricatovictor [at] gmail.com.

Inspired by Chip Huyen's List 100.

Progress as of May 5, 2026: 28/95. done · partial · still ahead of me.

  1. 1. ✗ Camp
  2. 2. ✗ Read 1,000 books over my lifetime — 4/1,000 — tracked on Goodreads
  3. 3. ✗ Visit Japan in cherry blossom season
  4. 4. ✗ Learn Korean
  5. 5. ✓ Learn piano
  6. 6. ✗ Learn how to make a perfect latte
  7. 7. ✗ Skiing
  8. 8. ✗ Play an instrument in a concert
  9. 9. ✗ Spend a full month without internet or phone
  10. 10. ✓ Take a cooking class in another country
  11. 11. ✗ Take a cooking class in Asia
  12. 12. ✗ Fly an airplane
  13. 13. ✗ Skydive
  14. 14. ✗ Learn to sing
  15. 15. ✗ Take care of a plant
  16. 16. ✗ Solo travel for 30+ continuous days
  17. 17. ✗ Eat pasta in Italy
  18. 18. ✗ Understand why opposite charges attract and equal ones repel
  19. 19. ✓ Throw snow at my brother
  20. 20. ✗ Visit a 2★+ Michelin restaurant in at least 2 countries per continent
  21. 21. ✗ Volunteer
  22. 22. ✗ Publish at a top-3 conference
  23. 23. ✗ Start a startup earning +10k USD / month
  24. 24. ✗ Surf
  25. 25. ✗ Learn how to make scientific illustrations
  26. 26. ✓ Study machine learning at graduate level
  27. 27. ✗ Go on a hike with my dog
  28. 28. ✗ Watch a former student or mentee win something significant
  29. 29. ✗ Family trip with friends (my kids + theirs, eventually)
  30. 30. ✗ Read 5 books in a year
  31. 31. ✗ Take my friends abroad
  32. 32. ✗ Family trip with my brother and mom
  33. 33. ✓ Watch the sunset in Rio
  34. 34. ~ Watch 10 shows or movies that make me rethink my life — 4/10 — Chernobyl, Interstellar, Coco, Breaking Bad (Letterboxd)
  35. 35. ~ Visit at least half of Brazilian states — 5/27
  36. 36. ~ Study Medicine — started, didn't finish
  37. 37. ✗ Cook a Sunday lunch my family will remember as "the" meal
  38. 38. ✗ Scuba dive
  39. 39. ~ Cook the favorite meal of my loved ones — 1/5 — and my dog's favorite is uncomputable: every food tested returns extremely positive
  40. 40. ✗ Go on a cruise abroad
  41. 41. ✓ Learn German
  42. 42. ~ See an aurora
  43. 43. ✗ Practice shooting at a firing range
  44. 44. ✗ Learn Chinese
  45. 45. ✓ Sail or cruise through a beautiful archipelago
  46. 46. ✗ Have a positive relationship with grief
  47. 47. ✗ Attend a major sports final (Champions League, World Cup)
  48. 48. ✓ Eat a croissant in Paris
  49. 49. ✗ Go to a 3-star Michelin restaurant
  50. 50. ✓ Road-trip with friends
  51. 51. ✓ Drive a sports car on the Autobahn
  52. 52. ✓ Have my mom communicate with one of my foreign friends
  53. 53. ✗ Take my mom on an international trip — tbd
  54. 54. ✓ Go on a cruise
  55. 55. ✗ Eat phở in Vietnam
  56. 56. ✗ Start a startup earning +1k USD / month
  57. 57. ✗ Publish at a top-1 conference
  58. 58. ✗ Teach biochemistry or bioinformatics at my old high school
  59. 59. ✗ Play volleyball at the beach
  60. 60. ✗ Ice-skate outdoors
  61. 61. ✗ Take a road trip with no fixed schedule
  62. 62. ✓ Publish at a top-5 conference
  63. 63. ✓ Visit Korea
  64. 64. ✗ Travel with my international friends
  65. 65. ✓ Spend +6 months in another country
  66. 66. ✓ Rank top 10+ in competitive gaming — top-3 Syndra on the BR League of Legends server
  67. 67. ✗ Cook coxinha for someone not from Brazil
  68. 68. ✗ Mentor someone who outpaces me and be proud of it
  69. 69. ✗ Meet someone from Blackpink in person
  70. 70. ✗ Be the family member everyone calls when something goes wrong — and right
  71. 71. ~ Visit 100 countries — ~16%
  72. 72. ✓ Go to a Blackpink concert — went to two
  73. 73. ✗ Get a tattoo
  74. 74. ✓ Go to the US during Halloween
  75. 75. ✗ Contribute to Alzheimer's disease research
  76. 76. ✗ Say "no" and not feel guilty about it
  77. 77. ✗ Write a blog post in a café during the rain
  78. 78. ✗ Learn to dance — tried once, failed
  79. 79. ✓ Cry of happiness
  80. 80. ✓ Save a life
  81. 81. ✓ Sleep at the beach
  82. 82. ✓ Play piano in public
  83. 83. ~ Make my mom understand my research — getting close
  84. 84. ✗ Go to Mexico during Día de los Muertos
  85. 85. ✗ Visit at least one country on every inhabited continent
  86. 86. ~ See the 7 World Wonders — 2/7 — Christ the Redeemer, Colosseum
  87. 87. ✗ Eat sushi in Japan
  88. 88. ✗ Practice some physical activity 3× a week for a full year
  89. 89. ✗ Get a PhD
  90. 90. ✗ Win a karting tournament
  91. 91. ✓ Watch a Formula 1 race in person
  92. 92. ✗ Watch a movie in an open-air cinema
  93. 93. ✗ Let my dog off-leash at a deserted beach
  94. 94. ✓ Do a +5h hike
  95. 95. ✗ Find a cure for a disease or condition