The Bucket List We All Need; Advice to Graduates
"The Buried Life" is an 1852 poem about how we get so caught up in day-to-day busywork that we forget to "spend our fire and restless force in tracking out our true, original course." In that spirit, a couple of Canadian brothers put together a "100 Things To Do Before We Die" list, with items such as "Compete in a krump contest," "Play basketball with President Obama," "Make a toast at a stranger's wedding," and 97 more. Jonnie and Duncan Penn took two weeks off work, borrowed an RV, and tackled the list. They shared the adventure with friends Dave and Ben, and their project is almost like a combination of the movie the Bucket List and the television shows My Name is Earl and Road Rules (another MTV reality series). Last year as I began watching this project unfold on the internet and now on television, I began to think about students making and setting goals for their lives. I was tempted to be skeptical of the who...