-thanks -family -leaders -troop -OA -specific -albertsons -milligan -others? -advice -long mbs - best idea: just skip *everything* (except school if it's happening then) for three months and just do them -would have been a whole lot easier than stringing them out -advantage: then you can complete everything else as you want to without artificial constraints -project -look for project *early*, don't wait too long -it'll take a while to decide what you want, so look around -plan adequate time to raise funds - you never know what you're gonna get -in retrospect, I got lucky -perhaps plan two, do first and then decide? -plan adequate time for alternate times for project -I could have used at least one backup date, but I didn't have time to fit one in