Each of us only has so much time at the University of British Columbia, so we’ve compiled a list of important (and not-so-important) UBC bucket list items that you might try to accomplish before you leave this hallowed institution.
1. Find The Ubyssey’s Office
2. Write for The Ubyssey
3. Do what you love
4. Join the club with the least (or most) discernibly culty vibes
5. Vandalize the Cairn
6. Polar Bear Swim on the Last Day of Classes (LDOC)
7. Gorge on Blue Chip Cookies
8. Have an out-of-body experience at the Nitobe Memorial Garden
9. Go to the Pit and immediately leave
10. Vote in the AMS Elections
11. Discover Santa Ono’s salary
12. Write a paper shit-faced
13. Storm the Wall
14. Fall in love
15. Fall out of love
16. Share custody of your friend group after the breakup
17. Become a Residence Advisor, Orientation Leader and/or Student Ambassador (if you do all three, we will bully you in awe!)
18. Make friends with the portraits in that bougie section of IKB — you know the one
19. Avoid the Halloween Pub Crawl at all costs
20. Buy an overpriced sweater from the bookstore to let everyone know you’re in first year
21. Get your organization a mean nickname from a prof (e.g. “The Vilest Rag West of Blanca”)
22. Stop and smell the roses (in the Rose Garden)
23. Avoid saying the arts cheer during Jump Start/make up a better arts chant
24. Visit X̱wi7x̱wa Library
25. Take a nap in the stained red armchairs in the easternmost part of the Nest
26. Order six hash browns from Tim Hortons to show off to everyone else in line
27. Sneak koi fish into the UBC fountain and run away as fast and far as you can
28. Learn about water chemistry in CHEM 115 and sneak the fish back out of the fountain
29. Stay in the Nest long enough to see a meeting for a club that no one knows exists (like fencing)
30. Acquire Blundstones and a mason jar full of hemp hearts, berries and sawdust to pose as a forestry student so you can sit inside the forestry building
31. Lose your shower sandals (wear socks instead)
32. Rank every single turkey brie sandwich on campus
33. Join a frat just to ask why anyone would join a frat
34. Fall off the climbing wall in The Aviary, never return
35. Linger outside the UBC Skate Park with a tech deck
36. Go to an LFS Wednesday Night Dinner
37. Trip at the Botanical Gardens
38. Adopt a campus squirrel à la Stuart Little
39. Get lost in the Rose Garden Parkade, make peace with your fate
40. Follow a siren song to Wreck Beach
41. Discover the siren is a naked 47-year-old man named Jerry
42. Steal from the dining halls
43. Permanently borrow a JUUL — from your philosophy prof
44. Go to that one cliff (you’ll figure it out)
45. Switch majors
46. Switch majors
47. This one’s alright, I guess
48. Go clubbing and run into your mom’s friends
49. Get kicked out of an on-campus coffee shop for studying too hard
50. Create a new drinking game
51. Watch a sunset from the 18th floor of Orchard Commons
52. Avoid dropping your phone out the window to get a picture
53. Accidentally overshare in an email to a prof about your absence
54. Attend a UBC Improv show
55. Go see some weird German film or David Lynch’s Dune at The Norm
56. Move into MacLeod to complete a gruelling engineering group project
57. Enjoy delicious snacks and juicy gossip on the couches of the Agora Cafe
58. Become ‘ombuddies’ with an ombudsperson
59. Be too nervous to yell things in the echo circle at Wyman Plaza but think about doing it every time you pass by
60. Accidentally spend four hours in the MOA because it’s just that wonderful
61. Slackline in the trees between IKB and the SUB
62. Join a slightly less morally questionable group than the frats, like the AMS
63. Enjoy the delicious scent of cigarette smoke in that one lecture hall in IKB
64. Trash a ‘devil’s advocate’ during the annual UBC snowball fight
65. Attend an AMS club’s ‘exec meeting’ at Koerner’s Pub
66. Submit a UBC crush post about yourself (practice self love!)
67. Go to a Blank Vinyl Project show that is indistinguishable from a dream when you try to remember it
68. Forget to pack a sweater to your class in the Geography Building and curse yourself forever after
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70. Attempt to flirt with Jamie, the faculty of forestry’s virtual assistant bot
71. Go through a Commie phase
72. Create a terrible podcast
73. Become a teaching assistant
74. Go to exactly three Koerner’s parties — no more than is necessary
75. Keep at least one plant alive for a year
76. Attend a seminar drunk (bonus points if you’re in a group)
77. See a coyote on campus
78. Enjoy a post-Pit McDonald’s run
79. Unionize something
80. Get free dinner at an AMS Council meeting
81. Protest the Board of Governors
82. Spill tea on UBC Confessions
83. Run up the Wreck Beach stairs
84. Get high in the forest next to Totem
85. Post in the UBC subreddit
86. “Um, ACKSHUALLY…”
87. Stay off the UBC subreddit
88. Get so pissed about the amount of money you give UBC that you almost drop out
89. Obsessively check the SSC when grades are released
90. Watch the SSC crash
91. Spill your Starbucks drink in the Life Building
92. Slip on ice in front of that one cute classmate
93. Go to the Birdcoop (unless you’re claustrophobic)
94. “Forget” to do a class reading
95. Forget to do a class reading
96. Write an essay on the 99 the day it’s due
97. Be awoken by some asshole pulling a fire alarm in the middle of the night
98. Have it happen ten more times throughout the year
99. Get your umbrella broken by the wind in a downpour
100. Eat fresh at the UBC Farm farmer’s market
101. Do a presentation with food in your teeth... it’ll happen, trust me
102. Try out for a club you are massively unqualified to join, just for fun
103. Don’t take all this too seriously
Written collaboratively by Ubyssey Blog contributors.