78 Things To Do Before You Graduate From Champlain College
February 19, 2014
| by Kayla Hedman '14 / Champlain College News
Although there are plenty of things current students would say are necessary to do before graduation, in honor of the College's founding in 1878, we have compiled these 78 things to do before you graduate. We hope this inspires you to get out there and start checking these off your college bucket list now!
Whether you're an incoming first-year student or in your last semester at Champlain, you can compare how your college experience has measured up to your friends'. It's important for self-discovery to go out of your comfort zone and try something new. So, if you haven't tried to play Quidditch yet, or haven't explored town by way of the CCTA bus line, you might be missing out.
View the bigger graphic HERE, and feel free to print and share it. Here's the list and additional resources to the 78 things in our 2014 edition:
- Instagram a sunset photo of Lake Champlain
- Attend a Champlain Theatre performance
- Learn to juggle
- Attend a group fitness class
- Read poetry to jazz music
- Spend a weekend (or entire semester) in Montreal
- Meet with the president of Champlain College
- Experience class outside
- Play Quidditch
- Be bold and ask your crush to the Snowball
- No matter your major, take awesome electives
- Create something at the MakerLab
- Run for a Student Government Association position
- Do community service
- Create a professional LinkedIn profile
- Take a photo with Chauncey
- Perform at the Grind open mic night
- Make friends from other colleges wish they came to Champlain College
- Participate in student activities' spring game show — this year they are playing Slime Time Live!
- Get pied for a good cause
- Explore the Champlain archives
- Participate in Tent City
- Display your art in the Hauke gallery
- Learn to do laundry and cook for yourself
- Kick bad habits
- Table at the student activities fair
- Be in a student film
- Have a maple "creemee"
- Attend a Champlain rugby or ice hockey game
- Camp out at the Otis Mountain Get Down music festival organized by current students and alumni
- Meet Linus Hubbell (photo of Linus at right by Kate Young '14)
- Stroll downtown with friends
- Utilize your free access to the CCTA bus line
- Explore local farmer's markets
- Get sudsy at spring meltdown
- Spend a summer in Burlington
- Pull an all-nighter in Metz Studio Barn
- Get a $30 season pass to Sugarbush's Mt. Ellen
- Have a Beaver Tail Sandwich at Jazzman's café
- Start your own business with BYOBiz
- Tweet using #campchamp
- Go bobsledding
- Experience Humans vs. Zombies
- Check out parkour or rock-climbing clubs
- Be on the local news or Jack Carpenter's Lake Night talk show
- Call your first-year residence hall "home"
- Gain cultural awareness
- Get an on-campus job
- Become an Orientation Leader (OL)
- Attend the KeyBank VT City Marathon
- Dress up and attend the Halloween dance
- Monkey around
- See the S.D. Ireland St. Patrick's Day parade - I never thought cement trucks could be so cool!
- Learn to Lead Like A Beaver
- Be a bee-keeper for a day
- Support a charity or a friend's crowd-sourcing campaign
- Attend events hosted by your resident assistants
- Build lasting relationships with professors and staff members
- Become a Student Ambassador
- Have breakfast at Handy's Lunch on Maple St., owned by Champlain alumni
- Become a mentor
- Attend Ski & Ride's annual Rail Jam
- Compete in the Elevator Pitch competition
- Become a Resident Assistant or Peer Advisor
- Take advantage of free bowling and movie nights
- Travel the world
- Make the Dean's List
- Attend internship and job fairs
- Take the Champlain shuttle down to Lakeside Campus
- Tune up your resume with Career Services
- Ace Capstone
- Learn the words to the Champlain Alma Mater
- Get an internship abroad
- RSVP to the Senior Trustee Dinner
- Apply for jobs
- Thank everyone who supported you and made attending Champlain College possible
- Attend senior week activities
- Get your diploma! - SAY CHEESE!
Also, check out the 2012 edition of 78 things to do before you graduate for some more fun ideas and a look back at how Champlain has changed in just two years.
Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and over 90 residential undergraduate and online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 384 Colleges: 2019 Edition. For the fourth year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's 2019 "America's Best Colleges,” and a “Best Value School” and is ranked in the top 100 “Regional Universities of the North” and in the top 25 for “Best Undergraduate Teaching.” Champlain is also featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2019 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain and is a 2019 College of Distinction. For more information, visit champlain.edu.