2,500 days ago, I published my very first blog post.

That’s a little less than 7 years ago (6 years, 10 months, 4 days), for those of you needing a different metric.

A lot can happen in 2,500 days.

I, for instance (in roughly chronological order):

• Graduated high school
• Got my wisdom teeth pulled
• Went on 2 cruises to Alaska
• Marched a Seattle Seahawks halftime show
• Witnessed the rise of YouTube
• Witnessed the fall of MySpace
• Discovered my passion: statistics
• Got dumped by someone
• Discovered Leibniz
• Roomed with one guy I knew fairly well plus three guys I didn’t know at all
• Dumped someone
• Had the most genuine relationship I’ve ever had
• Earned 2 bachelor’s degrees
• Turned 21
• Got accepted into grad school twice
• Survived swine flu
• Lived in Vancouver, BC
• Witnessed the rise of Twitter
• Ran a 10k
• Went skydiving
• Earned a master’s degree
• Quit a PhD program
• Walked over 1,000 miles in about 11 months
• Saw Mount Rushmore
• Lived in London, ON
• Been (mentally) very, very sick
• Took a year off from school
• Medically withdrew from a PhD program
• Lived in Tucson, AZ
• Got a job teaching statistics
• Went back to undergrad
• Won NaNoWriMo four times
• Turned 25
• Blogged every day

And probably a lot of other stuff that I’m not remembering off the top of my head.

But you know what’s really cool? I’m currently only ONE QUARTER of the way to my goal of 10,000 posts.

Think of all the other things that will happen by post 10,000! That’s not going to be until 2033. What will the world be like in 2033?

I’m excited. That seems so far away.