· Meet your graduation requirements with classes that start after 10am.
· Make sure your resume is in tip-top shape (see next post for helpful hints).
· Spend at least one straight week second semester going out every night.
· Visit all of your old dorm rooms. Take photos if possible.
· Get your yearbook picture taken. Your parents will be happy.
· Buy any school apparel that fits – it may be your last chance to get those kitchy spring weekend tanks you always
meant to buy.
· Write an article for a campus publication. It’s nice to see your name in print and it’s a reminder that you actually made
a contribution.
· Make sure your resume is in tip-top shape (see next post for helpful hints).
· Spend at least one straight week second semester going out every night.
· Visit all of your old dorm rooms. Take photos if possible.
· Get your yearbook picture taken. Your parents will be happy.
· Buy any school apparel that fits – it may be your last chance to get those kitchy spring weekend tanks you always
meant to buy.
· Write an article for a campus publication. It’s nice to see your name in print and it’s a reminder that you actually made
a contribution.
· Take a weekend road trip with your friends. It’ll remind you that there is a great big world out there and that life is better
when lived in good company.
· Take a class that fulfills no requirements, but makes you ecstatically happy.
· Plan an traditionally collegiate spring break
· Write a note to at least one teacher thanking him/her for opening your mind.
· Go to a party where you don’t know anyone. Introduce yourself to everyone.
· Get an internship.
· Conduct an exit interview with your supervisor/boss and ask them to be honest. Better to hear it now.
· Take pictures with/on an important campus statue (i.e., Ride the Ram)
when lived in good company.
· Take a class that fulfills no requirements, but makes you ecstatically happy.
· Plan an traditionally collegiate spring break
· Write a note to at least one teacher thanking him/her for opening your mind.
· Go to a party where you don’t know anyone. Introduce yourself to everyone.
· Get an internship.
· Conduct an exit interview with your supervisor/boss and ask them to be honest. Better to hear it now.
· Take pictures with/on an important campus statue (i.e., Ride the Ram)
· Take the GREs now. You may be dreading them today, but think about how unlikely you’ll be to take them 4 years
after you graduate.
· Make a post-grad dinner reservation for your graduation guests and get the date in your parents' calendar.
· Attend your very last Spring Weekend.
· Sneak into a forbidden part of campus late at night with your best friend.
· Gain celebrity status by getting a picture of yourself on your school website.
· Pull an all-nighter and do anything but work.
· Photograph your campus in each season.
· Write a note to your freshman roommate. Apologize for freshman you and thank him/her for whatever good
memories you have.
· Anonymously decorate someone’s dorm room door.
· Eat as much free food as humanly possible. It may seem gross now, but boy will it be a golden memory when, in the
not-so-distant future, you have to buy and cook all of your own meals.
· Apply to jobs and grad school.
· Thank your parents. Several times. Maybe even in writing.
· Buy your cap and gown.
· Register to graduate.
· Wish you were a freshman again.
· Thank your parents. Several times. Maybe even in writing.
· Buy your cap and gown.
· Register to graduate.
· Wish you were a freshman again.