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Things I Did in 2018

(Prelude:

The Year of Learning

I’ve concluded this is “The Year of Learning” I’m finally learning stuff in college that isn’t general education, I learned so much handy stuff from working with my uncle over the summer, and was in & out of my first serious relationship.)

  • Got food for free because of Icebergs (3years after release)

  • Got to podcast with Tatum

  • Got Hannah Merhaut to write for my blog

  • Got to video podcast with Dre

  • Went to a Steeler playoff game

  • Belong to a black choir 

  • Jiujitsu class for a whole 20 minutes

  • Speed dated 

  • Rapped in church

  • Guided meditation effectively

  • Watched the Patriots lose in a VIP room 

  • Performed stand up during my uncle’s open mic

  • Worked at T-shirt Explosion

  • Got 50 likes & 3,000+ views on Dre’s freestyle

  • Got to podcast with Ransom

  • Won my first game of chess ever

  • Took a philosophy class

  • T.J. Miller & Cash Levy liked my first masker 

  • Met Rashad Jennings

  • Got to watch Donald host on SNL with Bino as musical guest

  • Got to watch This is America

  • Hung up tommywaite.com flyers all around campus

  • They used my masker at a live show on Cashing In with T.J. Miller

  • Peed off a bridge, twice

  • Ate a fried Twinkie

  • Wrote, directed, & edited my own commercial

  • Stayed up all night talking to a girl

  • Slept in a hammock overnight while camping

  • Dyni wrote for my blog

  • I broke the one month curse

  • Won a game of horseshoes

  • Got to watch Atlanta Robbin’ Season

  • My family moved from a townhouse to an apartment

  • Went on my old youth group’s mission trip as a leader

  • Got through diarrhea & throwing up at the same time (on the mission trip)

  • I wore a choker (ironically)

  • Played angleball

  • Had Bette’s homemade stuffed pork chop

  • Talked to T.J. Miller briefly one on one about philosophy 

  • Drank Aloe Vera

  • A girl I love wrote me an eleven page letter

  • Got my first kiss 

  • A girl I love said “I love you” to me

  • Wrote a rap as a Shakespeare character for a play

  • Played my 3rd year of church softball

  • I worked with my uncle for a summer as a handyman

  • Ate a donut ice cream sandwich

  • Got a 114 day streak on snapchat

  • Skinny dipped in the ocean

  • Built a RED camera

  • Fit 26 grapes in my mouth

  • Slept in a car

  • Got to watch Pete do his first sermon

  • Made my first real meal (thanks Blue Apron)

  • Played Intermural basketball

  • Went to D.C. alone

  • Got to see Childish Gambino perform in person

  • Sat at a bar at a fancy restaurant 

  • Saw Sweeney Todd live by myself

  • Took a girl I love to get a massage

  • Got to listen to Tha Carter V

  • Brought my friend (Pete) to Pittsburgh 

  • Got my heart broken (s’all good :)

  • Went to Philadelphia 

  • Ate an authentic Philly cheese steak

  • Went to a NBA game

  • Had an Insomnia Cookie

  • Went TopGolfing

  • Finished a whole Chapstick

  • Made Christmas cards with my friends

  • The cruising range on my car got to 0 and I survived

  • Went as a leader on a church retreat

  • Got tommywaite.com pens

  • Went to a Gala for no reason and was way underdressed

  • Wore a dress and Definitely pulled it off

  • Someone put me on “LU Crushes”

  • Got a JuJu Jersey

  • Used VR for the first time

  • Got money for playing fantasy football

Went to a Steeler playoff game

Speed dated

Met Rashad Jennings

Won a game of horseshoes

Went on my old youth group’s mission trip as a leader

I wore a choker (ironically)

Had Bette’s homemade stuffed pork chop

Talked to T.J. Miller briefly one on one about philosophy

Ate a donut ice cream sandwich

Built a RED camera

Got to watch Pete do his first sermon

Made my first real meal (thanks Blue Apron)

Played Intermural basketball

Got to see Childish Gambino perform in person

Sat at a bar at a fancy restaurant

Ate an authentic Philly cheese steak

Went to a NBA game

Went TopGolfing

Made Christmas cards with my friends

The cruising range on my car got to 0 and I survived

Went as a leader on a church retreat

Went to a Gala for no reason and was way underdressed

Wore a dress and Definitely pulled it off

Someone put me on “LU Crushes”

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