14 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Graduation Issue 2015
TAKE-HOME TEST
Big Red Ambition:161Things Every Cornellian Should Do HOW MANY DID YOU DO? Compiled from student responses to an e-mail survey in 2005; updated 2014. " 1. Make the library into your bedroom and have sex in the stacks " 2. Finally meet the dazzling Denice Cassaro " 3. Go to the Cornell-Harvard men’s hockey game and throw fish on the ice " 4. Sing along to “We didn’t go to Harvard” with the Cayuga’s Waiters " 5. Sled down Libe Slope during a snow storm " 6. Take Hotel Administration 4300: Introduction to Wines " 7. Streak across the Arts Quad " 8. Take Psychology 1101: Intro to Psychology " 9. Test out Olin Library’s musically calibrated steps by throwing stones on them " 10. Attempt sake bombing at Plum Tree or Miyake in Collegetown " 11. Order ice cream at the Dairy Bar " 12. Climb the rock wall in Bartels Hall " 13. Listen to a full chimes concert from the clock tower and guess the songs played " 14. Order the same thing off the Collegetown Bagels menu all four years " 15. Register for classes during Freshman Orientation, then switch out of every single one by the time Add/Drop ends " 16. Wear flip-flops to class in January " 17. Go to the Fuertes Observatory on North Campus and gaze at meteor showers " 18. Have a snowball fight in May " 19. Milk a cow " 20. Skip class to play frisbee on the Arts Quad " 21. Bury a bottle of Bacardi on the Slope. Dig it up on Slope Day. " 22. Go apple picking " 23. Attend the Apple Festival on the Commons " 24. Flirt with your professor " 25. Bomb a prelim " 26. Ace the next one to save your grade " 27. Attend Hotelie prom " 28. Meet Happy Dave from Okenshield’s " 29. Turn your face blue from screaming at midnight before the first finals " 30. Get heartburn at the Chili Cook-off on the Commons " 31. Enjoy Ithaca’s two months of warm weather — spend a summer here! " 32. Go to a Shabbat dinner at 104 West (CornellCard it) " 33. Watch the AAP students parade down East Avenue on Dragon Day " 34. Enjoy corn nuggets at The Nines " 35. Build a snow penis or count how many you see around campus " 36. Dress up and view The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Risley " 37. Take a class you think is impossible just for fun " 38. Go on a wine tour " 39. Kiss on the suspension bridge at midnight " 40. Sleep through your alarm for a 1:25 class " 41. Shop at the Friends of the Library Book Sale " 42. Get out of a University parking ticket " 43. Buy an Ithaca Is Gorges t-shirt, then get sick of wearing it and buy a variation (Ithaca Is Gangsta, Vaginas Are Gorges, Ithaca Is Long Island...) " 44. Learn the “Alma Mater,” “Evening Song” and “Give My Regards to Davy” " 45. Attend an opening at the Johnson Museum of Art " 46. Smuggle food from the dining hall and run for your life as they try to get back your stolen cookies " 47. Do the Walk of Shame " 48. Have dinner at a professor’s house " 49. Get wasted at a professor’s house " 50. Take a #selfie with President David Skorton " 51. Play a game of tag in the Kroch Library stacks " 52. See a play in the Schwartz Center " 53. Rush the field at the last home football game of the season " 54. Start your freshman year pre-med. Graduate as a Hotelie. " 55. Gamble at Turning Stone (try not to lose money) " 56. Watch dancers fly through the air at a Bhangra show " 57. Have a midnight picnic in the Cornell Plantations " 58. Wait in line for half an hour for a salad at the Terrace " 59. Ignore any and all “No Winter Maintenance” signs … slip and fall on the icy stairs " 60. Sit in Libe Café when you have no work to do and watch the worried studiers down gallons of coffee " 61. Write an angry letter to the editor of The Sun " 62. Go to Wegmans on a Friday or Saturday night " 63. Explore the secret underground tunnel between Uris and Olin libraries " 64. See the library’s Rare Book Collection " 65. Pretend you are Harry Potter and study in the A.D. White library (looks like Hogwarts) " 66. See the brain collection in Uris Hall " 67. Eat at Taverna Banfi (formerly Banfi’s) and charge it to CornellCard " 68. Buy beer at Jason’s in Collegetown and charge it to CityBucks " 69. Take Plant Pathology 2010: Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds " 70. Take part in a psychology experiment " 71. Take an unplanned nap in a library " 72. Take over a building " 73. According to legend, watch a virgin cross the Arts Quad and then witness A.D. White and Ezra Cornell shake hands " 74. Live through an Ithaca blizzard and tell your friends how you survived frostbite " 75. Throw a flaming pumpkin into the gorge " 76. Play co-ed intramural innertube water polo " 77. Spend all your lectures figuring out the day’s crossword. While sitting for the final, wish you had taken notes instead. " 78. Hook up with your T.A.
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Order a PMP at the Hot Truck Play trivia at Rulloff’s on Sunday nights Play again on Monday at Chapter House Make a fool of yourself at karaoke at Loco on Tuesday Hit up Group Therapy on Wednesdays at Dunbar’s Go bowling at Helen Newman Lanes Hand out quartercards on Ho Plaza Drive your car up and down Libe Slope or Ho Plaza Have a friend’s parents take you out to eat at John Thomas Steakhouse or Boatyard Grill 88. Eat a chicken parm sandwich from Louie’s Lunch 89. Eat breakfast at 2 a.m. at the State Diner 90. Males: Get thrown out of Balch Hall 91. Hook up with a freshman 92. Go skinny dipping in a gorge 93. Walk to the Commons and back 94. Go to an a cappella concert 95. Go ice skating at Lynah Rink 96. Instagram the cherry blossoms in the spring 97. Sell back your books; use money to buy alcohol 98. Drink bubble tea 99. Eat a Pinesburger 100. Walk to a fraternity party with your entire freshman floor 101. Go to a fraternity party as a senior; convince yourself you were never one of them 102. Get lost in Collegetown during Orientation Week 103. Get negged at a bar because the bouncer is actually friends with the person whose I.D. you are using 104. See a foreign film at Cinemapolis 105. Eat mongo at RPCC 106. See a concert at Barton Hall 107. Gain the freshman 15. Pay $145 for a gym membership and don’t go 108. Eat brunch on North Campus 109. Do your Freshman Reading Project before you graduate 110. Fail your swim test, just for kicks 111. Tailgate for homecoming 112. Be a model in the Cornell Fashion Collective’s annual fashion show 113. Host a prefrosh 114. Request a song to be played on the clock tower 115. Get guilt-tripped into giving blood 116. Get asked if you are pregnant at Gannett (males and females) 117. Drink with your R.A. 118. Make a chalking; weep when it rains that night 119. Sing drunk on the drunk bus 120. Meet Bill Nye ’77, “The Science Guy,” and give him a hug 121. See how long you can go without doing laundry 122. Go on a road trip to Canada, flirt with the border patrol, smuggle booze back 123. Try to order pizza from a Blue Light phone 124. Go to the sex shop on the Commons 125. Get drunk on Slope Day, run into Vice President Susan Murphy ’73 126. Complain about the Slope Day headliners 127. Get tapped for a secret society 128. Go to The Shops at Ithaca Mall, realize it is severely lacking, then drive to the Carousel Mall in Syracuse 129. Lose a friend over signing a lease in Collegetown 130. Run out of BRBs in March; live off campus events’ free food for the rest of the year 131. Walk holding hands around Beebe Lake 132. Visit the Sciencenter 133. See Yamatai bang it out at Pulse 134. Get J.A.’d for urinating on the Law School 135. Hook up with someone randomly and then see them every day afterward 136. Go to a coffee house in JAM 137. See how many people you can cram into your dorm room 138. Watch people play Dance Dance Revolution in Appel 139. Write dirty messages with rocks in the gorge 140. Ride a horse at Oxley Equestrian Center 141. Ring the giant bell in the Plantations 142. Crash a political rally on Ho Plaza 143. Do the COE ropes course 144. Attend a show at the State Theatre 145. Prank call the CIT HelpDesk 146. Wake up at 7 a.m. for CoursEnroll; realize that your choice classes are full anyway 147. Ski at Greek Peak 148. Take a night prelim near the vet school, walk back in the dark 149. Trespass on Alumni Fields 150. Ask Ezra’s Oracle a question 151. Take the BASICS program 152. Walk to class in the snow, uphill both ways 153. Buy a Cornell-grown apple from a vending machine 154. Furnish an apartment entirely with items from the Dump & Run 155. Eat at each dining hall at least once 156. Ask for an extension on a term paper 157. Take part in Holi and get colorful 158. Pull an all-nighter in the Uris Library Cocktail Lounge 159. Tell a professor what you really think of his/her class 160. Attend a Sun organizational meeting: Go to cornellsun.com for details 161. Climb all 161 steps to the top of McGraw Tower
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