Honors Seminar 2024
First Assignment: My Bucket List
Revised: 2025-09-01 8:25 PM CDST
The concept of a "bucket list" was popularized by the movie of the same name in 2007. See: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825232/ for a review. The movie starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. A chance meeting brought them together and although they came from widely differing social strata they decided to act upon their respective bucket lists before they died.
Your task is to come up with YOUR own bucket list and to write about it in 300 words (and NO MORE). Do not just send a list: http://sauhc.blogspot.com/search/label/Bucket%20List for examples from your Honors College predecessors.
Your Bucket List will be included in your Honors College file. The Honors College will use your bucket lists in the future when we recall your career here and write letters of support for you. Future employers will discover your bucket lists after they search you out on the Internet. Be serious and keep it clean because we will publish these on our blog. Future employers and graduate schools WILL see them.
David Wingfield and Clai Morehead, presented Who are they? Honors students bucket lists, at the NCHC meeting in Seattle in 2016. You can see that report at the link: Bucket List Data
My Bucket List (2024):
As a grandfather, I plan to spend time with John Edward Kardas and Thomas Anthony Kardas. They live in Little Rock. My wife Julie and I purchased kayaks a few years ago but because of work and visits with our grandsons have not had time to float on lakes or streams lately. It would be nice to float the Buffalo sometime soon. Travel calls again, especially to Cuba. SAU has sent me there six times since 2015 with the last visit in February 2020 to SAU's sister school there, the University of Artemisa. We are now looking into taking the SAU baseball team to Cuba sometime within the next 12 months. Julie and I want to visit Prague and Buffalo to celebrate the marriages, but not the weddings of our son (Clay) and and daughter (Cara). Only our son Christian, has had a wedding. The others married during Covid and were denied the joys (and tribulations) of a marriage ceremony. Hopefully, the family can substitute visits instead. Julie and I are taking a Viking cruise to the Eastern Mediterranean in December 2024. It will be Julie's first cruise. As a child I traveled by ship often when my father was posted to Buenos Aires, Havana, and Valparaiso. I desire to visit the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The annual matches at Camp Perry have been conducted since early in the 20th century and draw a great number of shooters from around the world. Now I target shoot twice a month in Texarkana. Those competitions are fun and very low key. Many of my fellow shooters are older than I (hard to believe) but all share a passion for marksmanship and accurate firearms. (283 words)
Details
Deadline: Wednesday 29 September 2025, by 11:59 pm
How: Submit as MS Word or Pages attachment via SAU e-mail. (Please don't send me MS Sharepoint files, I can't read those.)
Editing: Pay attention to the Essay Writing Hints document on our main page!