101 Things to Do Before You Graduate

Sarah Nunez-Lafontaine ’22 

In honor of the impending end of the semester, I (along with some very good friends) compiled a bucket list of all the things to do before that fateful day: graduation. Check off the boxes, or use this as a guide for how to spend Spring Semester to do list. The halfway point of the year will serve as a check to ensure that you and your friends are making the most of your college years.

1. See the bonfires at Harvey Mudd and call 911
2. Lose your underwear somewhere around the 5Cs 
3. Get cuffed
4. Don’t read any of the books for CORE
5. Fill your dorm with candles, fairy lights, and any other banned items
6. Get really into slacklining at Pitzer
7. Fall in love with a hookup
8. Host a beer pong tournament
9. Go to toga
10. Hate toga
11. Steal the “T” balloon at toga
12. Make a playlist about how lonely you are
13. Question your sexuality 
14. Decorate your dorm room a la CMC (with empty liquor bottles that you drank by yourself) 
15. Get a job (good luck)
16. Complain about the annoying couples on the dance floor who are making out
17. Be a part of one of those annoying couples
18. Pet a therapy dog
19. Consider getting a therapy dog
20. Actually get a therapy dog
21. End an email to a professor with “I love you”
22. Drop your Hydroflask in a crowded lecture hall
23. Use a life-straw to drink the Cube water
24. Accidentally end up in a long-term relationship
25. Steal someone’s Motley drink by accident
26. Steal someone’s Motley drink on purpose
27. Get an STI test
28. Get mono 
29. Sign up for 20+ clubs at turf dinner, attend zero (0) meetings
30. Buy, but never use, a skateboard
31. Chase your tequila with Emergen-C
32. Chase your Emergen-C with tequila
33. Do the 5 Pees 5 times (5 Pees squared)
34. Ride the bull at Wild Wild West
35. Throw up in the Pitzer pool 
36. Tell a stranger “Did you know this is where they filmed the ending to Bird Box?”
37. Fall in love with a Pomona soft boi
38. Grow to hate Pomona soft bois
39. Almost burn your dorm down with a candle
40. Cry in the Honnold-Mudd library
41. Play drunk Twister
42. Pull an all-nighter before a paper’s due date, and then complain when you get a B-
43. Change your major
44. Change it again
45. Wonder whether a minor is even worth anything
46. Get the worst hangover of your life
47. Join a band
48. Be the Yoko Ono of a band
49. Pump before Pirate Party
50. Spread hand foot and mouth disease
51.  Join The Scripps Voice 
52. Drink a Four Loko and secretly like it 
53. Go on a date at all seven dining halls (yes, even Oldenborg)
54. Fall in love with a professor 
55. Get peed on at a party
56. Do it on a ~twin xl~ 
57. Catch someone having sex in the common room
58. Go vegan for two weeks 
59. Hotbox the Cube
60. Try choking 
61. Like choking
62. Cry in office hours but walk out like nothing happened
63. Go to the farmers market and accidentally buy $15 worth of cheese
64. Develop strong opinions about which dining hall has the best chocolate chip cookie (it’s Collins)
65. Eat your feelings at Jays Place
66. Get eaten out at Jays Place
67. Smoke weed and hate it 
68. Smoke weed and love it 
69. Run from the police after a 240 House party
70. Drop acid
71. Get inspiration for your thesis via your hallucinations 
72. Move back into the Denver house
73. Get back together with an ex 
74. Date an entire friend group 
75. Break up an entire friend group 
76. Fall in love with your suitemate
77. Realize you are “exactly like the other girls”
78. Call a professor “daddy” by accident 
79. Call a professor “daddy” on purpose
80. Call camp sec for a ride just because you don’t feel like walking
81. Get in a heated debate on the 5C meme queen FB page
82. Develop at least one weird kink 
83. Dye your hair and don’t tell your family until parents weekend
84. See that one person you made out with once and thought you’d never see again way too often for it to be an accident
85. Make a playlist with songs from the Motley
86. Plan at least 3 LA excursions 
87. Never go to LA
88. Get a piercing at Laughing Buddha
89. Claim you’re broke but go to Coachella with 7 of your best friends
90. Put stickers over the alcoholic drinks in your Instagram posts so your parents don’t yell at you 
91. Post all of your possessions on “5c for sale/for free” 
92. Become sorely disappointed when no one wants to buy your crap
93. Check co-star every day
94. Flirt with someone by asking them for their co-star
95. Try meditation
96. Make a Tinder and instantly regret it
97. Delete tinder and redownload it 3 times in one week
98. Get a stick n poke tattoo
99. Cry over thesis
100. Continue to be asked if you’re a first year until the day you graduate 
101. Graduate.