If you can check off at least half of these, you have made the most of your college experience here at DU. Now, off to bigger and better things; congrats class of 2013.
Happy graduating!
1. Learn how to write a resume.
2. Know what ‘business casual’ means.
3. Learn how to change a tire.
4. Brush up your LinkedIn account.
5. Meet with Career Services.
6. Learn how to file your own taxes
7. RELAX.
8. Make good on any absurd promises you may have made to any absurd people during freshman year.
9. Make no lingering secret crushes unknown.
10. Send a letter to high school teachers who may have helped you get to this point.
11. Attend Anthony’s $1 slice night.
12. Stay at the Stadium till close.
13. Read the Clarion.
14. Attend a group fitness class.
15. DU Open-Mic night.
16. Have an internship (preferably paid).
17. Go to the opera.
18. Attend a hockey game.
19. Write a professor a thank you note.
20. Have a floor potluck.
21. Call your freshman roommate.
22. Attend DUPB Thursday Movie.
23. Study in Mary Reed.
24. Don’t get killed by ghost in Mary Reed.
25. Take a nap on the Driscoll Green between classes.
26. Sign a petition on the Driscoll Bridge.
27. Go to Observatory Park.
28. Play night games.
29. Meet your neighbors.
30. Go to a house party.
31. Go to a frat party.
32. Go to a theme party.
33. Make sure you go to class after said parties.
34. Go downtown.
35. Go to the art museum.
36. Go to an exhibit in Schwayder.
37. Run from Campo.
38. Apologize for running from campo.
39. BLACKLIGHT PARTY
40. Completely ruin your tolerance for at least one type of hard alcohol.
43. Get lost.
44. Get found.
45. Go to a Flo’s Underground jazz show.
46. Work work work.
47. Pull an all-nighter.
48. Read the published work of a professor.
49. Go to a poetry reading on campus.
50. Go to a protest on campus.
51. Write chalk messages on campus.
53. Climb a 14-er.
54. Survive a party in Boulder.
55. Figure out what actually goes into Jungle Juice.
56. Ask your favorite professors for letters of recommendation before they forget who you are.
57. Contemplate graduate school.
58. Apply for ALL jobs.
59. Spend a summer on DU’s campus; it’s beautiful and quiet.
60. Play volleyball on the green.
61. Send one message to the DU Confessions Facebook page
62. Join a club.
63. Eat at Jerusalem’s in the middle of the night.
64. Drink a Kaladi’s latte
65. Win an argument with self-proclaimed ‘smart kid’ in class.
66. Get on Dean’s List at least once; snapChat photo to parents.
67. Play an intramural sport.
68. Have a girl’s night.
69. Have a boy’s night.
70. Send something to DU Confessions
71. Focus on the present.
72. Discover what makes you happy
73. Discover who makes you happy
74. Now get tipsy with your father at “Dad’s ‘n Grads” at Stadium or Jordan’s on graduation morning.
75. Get your diploma. Take photos. Relax. Celebrate.
