Spring 2005

50 Things to Do Before You Leave Wooster

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Thanks to our contributors: Denise Bostdorff (communication), Becky Bower ’83, Ned Brooks (music), Ming Chang ’93, Lindsey Cramer ’08, Doug Fowler ’91, Mike Gorrell (campus post office), Jay Heiser ’82, Robert Kugler ’95, Pat Lavelle (campus ministries), Bettye Jo Mastrine (president’s office), Linda Morgan-Clement (campus ministries), Betty Rea (Lowry Center front desk), Bob Rodda (Lowry Center), Lawrence Rupp ’58, Betsy Morin Sillars ’64, Marta Zaborowski ’03

On campus

1. Appreciate the beauty of the campus.

2. Have as many meals with your friends as possible. After college it’s difficult to gather all your friends together.

3. Take a staff person to lunch and find out about who they really are aside from what they do.

4. Play golf on the Wooster course and go wading in the water trap. Enjoy the free greens fee – in the real world golf is expensive.

5. Take your grandparents to dinner at the Wooster Inn.

6. Don’t feel guilty about spending an hour in discussion with a friend; it can be as educational as an hour spent studying.

7. Watch the leaves fall in the Oak Grove on a beautiful autumn afternoon. Jump into the piles of leaves.

8. Enjoy the roof of McGaw Chapel. On a clear night, stargaze from it and take a nap. In the morning, watch the sunrise.

9. Lie in bed on a Saturday morning and listen to the bagpipers practice.

10. Take a course in something that you think you hate, and see if you were actually right.

11. Go to a Saturday football game and watch the band be led down the hill by the bagpipers.

12. Sled down the hill behind the PEC on a cafeteria tray. Or use your roommate’s mattress, on the golf course.

13. Read a book by a Wooster professor and talk to the author, even if you don’t have a class with him or her.

14. Get up at six a.m. and take a stroll. It’s peaceful and eerie when the fog sets in.

15. Take a study break and browse the almanacs in the library. Some of those old books outlived the fire that nearly destroyed the school in 1901.

16. Don’t stay in your dorm on a sunny day; study outside.

17. Participate in one of the legendary attempts to fill the Kauke arch with snow.

18. Take a picture of your friends beside The College of Wooster sign.

19. Perform in or attend a "Spotlight Showcase" concert at Mom’s Truck Stop.

20. Take that class you’ve always wanted to take (poetry? biology? Black studies?) and always figured that you’ll take "someday." Do it now; "someday" may never come.

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