Being a second semester senior in BBYO is genuinely something that has been creeping up on me since I joined. This period of time has a stigma, it’s when people don’t really “care” about their chapter anymore, and burn out. I like to think I haven’t burnt out yet. When I first joined BBYO and started to figure everything out, I made a bucket list for things I had wanted to accomplish before I became “old and irrelevant” in BBYO. 

I made this list because I wanted to see how much I could do with the time I had. I joined December 7, 2016, so my three year anniversary with BBYO was just a little while ago. Honestly, when I first made this list three years ago, I didn’t think I’d accomplish most of these things. To write this article, I had to find this list in the depths of my computer and retype it because it looked all warped with bad handwriting. However, looking at what I wrote, I was pleasantly surprised with myself and how much I had accomplished during my years in BBYO.\

When I first wrote the list, it was not organized in any way. When I updated and went through the list I broke it down into sections. These were things I have done once (highlighted in yellow), something I have done more than once (highlighted in green), and things I have not done (not highlighted). An example of a situation that would be highlighted yellow would be “Become a chapter/regional/international inductee” since that’s something that only happens once in a BBYO lifetime. A green bucket list item would be “Go to a convention,” which I have done plenty of times by now. Something that is not highlighted is something I was not able to accomplish.

An example of this is going to CLTC. The summer I that I wanted to go to CLTC, I was going on a college program and going to sleepaway camp. There was simply no time to go on CLTC.

One of my favorite yellow-highlighted items was going to ILTC at Perlman this summer. Those three weeks I spent there, becoming an international inductee, a bat mitzvah, and a better leader truly will be one of my favorite memories of BBYO. It showed me what it means to be a leader in my chapter, region, and in the order. I enjoyed making friends with people from all over and forming connections that have already proven to help lead my chapter and region.

Things I have done once:

• Stay in BBYO until senior year #2020onTOP
• Go on ILTC
• Fill up my closet with BBYO clothes
• Coordinate a convention
• Be in a mock chapter
• Regionally inducted
• Internationally inducted
• Become a bat mitzvah through BBYO
• Have some type of position at IC
• Do something internationally besides summer program
• Run for regional board (win or lose, at least try)
• Become close with members younger than me
• Become close with members older than me
• Become close with members that are the same age as me
• Take something from a convention that someone left behind but they didn’t realize they left it behind
• Win a regional award
• Make friends in BBYO outside of my chapter
• Make friends in BBYO outside of Gold Coast 
• Make friends in BBYO outside of the United States
• Be a BBYO poster child
• Get a regional big
• Get an international big/little
• Become a regional big
• Become an international big

Things I have done more than once:

• Get a BBYO lanyard for my car keys
• Go to a convention
• Steer a convention
• Be on chapter board
• Go to IC 
• Go to someone’s life ceremony event

Things I have not done:

• Go on CLTC
• Go on Kallah
• Go on Ambassadors
• Go on ILSI
• Go on MOTL
• Hold a position in that mock chapter
• Chapter inductee
• Become chapter N’siah
• Win a chapter award
• Win an international award
• Get a chapter big
• Become a chapter big
• Give chapter life
• Give regional life