50 THINGS TO DO AT WELLESLEY BEFORE YOU GRADUATE A REVISION
1. Find a favorite secret spot. Perhaps it’ll be by the lake; perhaps it’ll be in your res hall; perhaps it’ll be in the library. But find it. 2. Become best friends with one professor. Share smiles at department parties. 3. Attend a frat party as a first year, be disappointed, come back to your room with your new first year friends, and spend the rest of the night chatting about films and books over whiskey and cigarettes. 4. Walk around the lake by yourself. 5. Check out all the books in Clapp on one subject and bury yourself in reading. 6. Get a drastic haircut. 7. Become an essential part of an organization. 8. Visit the arboretum at night. 9. Submit something to a publication. 10. Sit in all the chairs in Clapp. 11. See a film in Collins Cinema. 12. Request a song for the Guild of Carillonneurs to play on the bells. 13. Attend a lecture on a subject completely unrelated to your major at which they serve food you don’t like. 14. Have ice cream in the Ville with a friend. 15. Stay in Wellesley for a weekend. 16. Attend a poetry reading. 17. Have a drink at the Pub. 18. Fulfill a Wellesley cliché for a moment. Revel in it. 19. Get to know Wellesley by bicycle. 20. Have a Wellesley little/big sib who wasn’t assigned to you. 21. Drink wine in the French House. 22. Study in the Wellesley Free Library. 23. Get coffee at El Table. 24. Get nachos at Café Hoop. 25. Listen to records at the WZLY station. 26. Visit the Davis Museum. 27. Jump into the lake, clothed or otherwise. 28. Host a prospective student. 29. See the campus from the top of Galen Stone Tower. 30. Cheer on the Boston Marathon. Make an ironic sign. 31. Study in the English Department library. 32. Have a ridiculously highbrow dining hall conversation filled with academic jargon. 34. Name your room. 35. Sunbathe on Severance Green while listening to the carillon. 36. Sled down Severance Green in the snow. 37. Go to an a cappella concert. 38. Attend a Shakespeare Society production. 39. Be on a first-name basis with a dining hall staffer. 40. Go canoeing on the lake. 41. Start a handwritten-letter-based correspondence with a friend at another school. 42. Pitch a tent somewhere green; spend a night there. 43. Not check your email for a day. 44. Read a book completely unrelated to your major/career
aspirations. 45. Have a favorite plant in the Greenhouse. 46. Guess, correctly, who the Wellesley students are at South Station/Logan. 47. Make s’mores at the fire pit. 48. Fall in love with something beautiful and pursue it. 49. Take a course in something you know nothing about. 50. Fall asleep in the library.