101 Things to Do Before You Graduate

Taken from The Fulcrum, Sept. 21, 2006 issue. Bolded statements means I've done it already.

1. Visit every building on campus.
2. Only go to a class once—and pass it.
3. Watch a sunrise from the top of any building on campus.
4. Drink a beer at 1848.
5. Spend the summer in Ottawa.
6. Own something with the U of O logo on it—just to prove you were here.
7. Try to buy alcohol with your meal plan.
8. Get across campus without going outside.
9. Attend a varsity Gee-Gees game.
10. Play intramurals.
11. Spend the night in the library and remain undetected.
12. Go vegetarian.
13. Resume eating meat.
14. Go somewhere other than home for reading week.
15. Get all of your professors in one semester to know your name.
16. Skate on the canal.
17. Participate in a protest.
18. Vote in the SFUO election.
19. Vote in a municipal election.
20. Call in a request to CHUO.
21. Go to Zak’s after the bar, and stay there till the bar opens again.
22. Go drinking with your professor.
23. Go to Roger Guindon—just to see what it’s like.
24. Start prefacing your entry into classrooms with the phrase, “And now, ladies and gentleman...”
25. Streak in the Unicentre.
26. Make Thanksgiving dinner in Rez.
27. Host a burrowing parasite.
28. Attend the activism course.
29. Drop a class for no other reason than you hate the people you sit with.
30. Occupy Gilles Patry’s office.
31. Sleep somewhere on campus.
32. Sit in on a class you aren’t registered in.
33. Take over the discussion in a class you aren’t registered in.
34. Try to teach a class you aren’t a part of.
35. Bike/walk/run on one of the city’s nature trails.
36. Eat breakfast at 3 p.m.
37. Learn to swear in a language other than French or English.
38. Eat at the campus cafeteria—never return.
39. Sing karaoke at The House.
40. Write for the Fulcrum.
41. Wear pyjamas to class.
42. Enjoy SFUO’s late-night programming.
43. Set off the book alarm in the Morisset library.
44. Have a picnic on top of the Rideau Centre.
45. Slide down the banister in Tabaret.
46. Make friends in residence—sleep it off on their floor.
47. Go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Mayfair—in full drag.
48. Play Frisbee with friends on Tabaret lawn.
49. Play a game of hide-and-seek in SITE and Colonel By.
50. Be a 101 Week guide.
51. Tray-boggan behind the cafeteria in the winter.
52. Borrow a lab coat and get ice from the science labs to make margaritas.
53. Take personal hygiene lightly.
54. Use every bathroom in the Unicentre.
55. Eat a vendor hot dog in summer and a Beavertail in the winter.
56. Visit Parliament Hill and the cat hotel next door.
57. Sell your old textbooks.
58. Stick it to the man and buy used textbooks
59. Change your major.
60. Meet somebody attractive in the Wizard’s Tower.
61. Find out Patry’s birthday—send him a card.
62. Realizing you’ve lost all hope, get drunk before an exam.
63. Work out at one of the school’s gyms. Sweat profusely.
64. Get free condoms from health promotions.
65. Go three weeks without doing laundry.
66. Crash a wine and cheese.
67. Learn a clean joke—to make up for that really dirty one you know.
68. Attend a Yuk Yuk’s night in the Alumni Auditorium.
69. Pick up someone in the library. Fool around on the 6th floor.
70. Take your drunk friend home in a shopping cart.
71. Confuse privilege with oppression.
72.Open a kissing booth on campus.
73. Join the Family Guy Club.
74. Join the Dance Dance Revolution Club.
75. Write an essay in Iambic pentameter.
76. Go a day without coffee. (that's because I don't drink coffee!)
77. Lobby the SFUO to unionize.
78. Lobby the newly unionized SFUO to strike.
79. Pay back your friend the money you borrowed in first year.
80. Help a friend move in.
81. Spend a night at Le Bop, if for nothing else to understand the jokes.
82. Call your parents, and don’t ask for money.
83. Buy your fruits and vegetables from the Market.
84. Make a paper-maché model of your favourite university building.
85. Eat a full meal for under $5 .
86. Figure out the numbering system for the classrooms in SITE. Explain to others.
87. Take advantage of all the services you pay for in your student fees.
88. Call Foot Patrol to walk you home on a dark and scary night.
89. Read La Rotonde, even if you don’t understand French.
90. Get your free agenda at the start of the year. Sell it on eBay.
91. Go to a professor’s office hours.
92. Donate to the university’s food bank.
93. Appeal your grades.
94. Lie about your age to get into the National Art Gallery for half price.
95. Go to an event at the National Arts Centre.
96. Donate things you don’t use any more to the community garage sale.
97. Attend a CLS movie night.
98. Attend a play presented by students in the theatre department.
99. Write a term paper in less than 24 hours.
100. Thank your favorite professor for helping you graduate.
101. Get a degree.