Wheaton News

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).