Perhaps foolishly, after watching The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), I resolved to walk 50 miles in less than 24 hours. To this day(3/20/2019) I have not accomplished that goal, but should I achieve it I will certainly write about it here somewhere on this website. As I was saying, I wanted to walk 50 miles. My first attempt ended at 25 miles; by around 2 o’clock I had listened to my favorite playlist at the time twice through, and had decided to throw in the towel. By the weekend before the weekend before finals(confusing, I realize), I felt I was ready again, and an assignment came along that seemed to perfectly fit the motivation I would need to carry it out. It was then that my Theory of Knowledge teacher gave us our final project: create an ‘artifact’ to pass on to the grade below us, detailing some facet of climate change and how we can fix it in our town. I then had the idea of doing my 50 mile walk, while picking up the garbage I encountered and filming the process of recycling/disposing of it. A classmate of mine and fellow walking enthusiast, Leo, came along as well. I figured we would walk 50 miles, pick up 2-3 bags of trash, and make a 10-15 minute video, if that. By the end of finals week, we had walked 15 miles, picked up the equivalent of 3 car-loads of garbage(along with tires, computers, a microwave, and a truck door), and produced an hour-long video detailing our journey to dispose of what we collected.