Not necessarily in sequential order.

– made cross-country skiing a winter hobby
– truly lost everything
– wrote an honest letter
– biked from Niagara Falls to my downtown Toronto apartment in one day
– played lots of ultimate frisbee
– became a weekday vegetarian
– which then evolved into being an almost-always vegetarian
– Fun Fact: “almost always” has mathematical meaning
– roamed the Cabot Trail
– saw first hand the power of the moon
– saw a fin whale up and close! oh man…
– made my first geocache
– went back to school
– finally learned Ito calculus
– got to teach again
– proved one of the most elegant/beautiful theorems in mathematics
– started learning how to read and write farsi (a work-in-progress)