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50 things to do before you graduate

Here’s the ultimate bucket list of what to do before graduating from Wheaton, comprising ideas offered by students, staff, faculty members and alumnae/i. The list was presented to incoming students at summer orientation as a gift and a challenge. How many can you check off?

  • Jump in Peacock Pond.
  • Do an internship.
  • Save your candle from the candlelighting ceremony and float it in Peacock Pond the night before Commencement.
  • Attend an a cappella jam.
  • Get on a first-name basis with your favorite professor.
  • Visit the Gebbie Archives.
  • Go to a performance by one of the dance groups on campus.
  • Take your professor for coffee.
  • Go sledding in the Dimple (trays available from dining services).
  • Have wings at Wendell’s.
  • Seniors, go to the bar on a Thursday night.
  • Race in the Head of the Peacock Regatta.
  • Take the train to Boston or Providence.
  • Have lunch in the Dimple.
  • Attend your class dinner.
  • Decorate a bag for the annual luminaria display.
  • Attend Rosecliff.
  • Participate in Holi.
  • Say “hello” to a new face on campus.
  • Cheer on one of Wheaton’s athletic teams at a home event.
  • Send a letter home to someone you care about.
  • Attend Live @ the Loft.
  • Dress up the statue of Hebe.
  • Visit the Beard and Weil Galleries in Watson Fine Arts.
  • Attend a campus dance.
  • Race in the Hoop Roll during Senior Week.
  • Walk through the Wheaton woods.
  • Stargaze on the soccer field.
  • Snap a selfie with Cowduck.
  • Introduce yourself to the president (or have dinner at the Presidents’ House).
  • Have a coffee and/or super-cookie at The Lyons Den.
  • Pull an all-nighter in the library during Night Owl Hours.
  • Volunteer through a program offered by the Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility.
  • Attend Sophomore Symposium.
  • Walk through the activities fair.
  • Attend the Holiday Vespers concert (a Wheaton tradition for more than 80 years).
  • Give back to the Wheaton community.
  • Listen to WCCS, Wheaton’s radio station.
  • Have a conversation with a member of the dining hall staff.
  • Find your way from the library to the new science center underground.
  • Do homework in the “Harry Potter Room.”
  • Eat Wheaton M&Ms.
  • Take a picture with the Wheaton Lyon.
  • Go to the farmers market.
  • Win some Wheaton swag.
  • Participate in the chapel ghost-telling ceremony.
  • Roll across the hallways of the Mars Center for Science and Technology in swivel chairs (preferably at night).
  • Watch a theater production.
  • Have fun at The BIG Event.
  • Sit on the library steps as a senior (and tell underclassmen they can’t sit there).