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Why You Need To Have a Senior Year Bucket List

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There is a total of 30 days left until graduation. Yeah SU, you heard me right; 30 days.

Looking back you start to think, where in the world did the time go? One minute you were an itty-baby freshman who didn’t even know how to get to the Writing Center and now you’re a full-fledged senior who has mastered the art of writing a 10-page paper 4 hours before it's due.

But here you are, about to become a graduate. The adult world is beginning to loom over and you start to realize that there are so many things you forgot to do in college. Your senior semester is supposed to be the epitome of all the craziness that is college, but somehow you got stuck in a rut of Netflix binges and Starbucks runs.

You want to make these next 30 days worth while, something you an look back and say ‘yeah i did that’. So what do you do to make up for lost time? You make yourself a senior bucket list.


1. Pull an all-nighter with your group of friends. Road trip around Salisbury, take a replica pic of you and Sammy the Seagull from freshman year, and somehow randomly end up in Ocean City by the end of the night.

2. Watch the sunrise from the beach. The only people who will call this typical and basic are the ones who have never experiences what it’s like to see the dark, morning sky explode into a breathtaking array of oranges, purples and blues. (Look below for proof).

3. Dye your hair that silver color you’ve been secretly wanting to try or get that nose piercing you’ve always told yourself you were going to get, because now’s the time for spontaneousness and mistakes.

4. Throw a randomly themed party. Do something really whacky and have a pineapple themed party, where everything from the drinks to the decorations have something to do with everyone’s favorite odd-ball fruit. Even though you say you’re too old for house parties, every secretly loves a good-themed party.

5. Go to Brew dressed as a senior-citizen and look reminisce on the ‘good old days’ while taking fireball shots.

6. Make it to the front row of Gullfest. All of these years chilling in the middle of the crowd are over, you will touch Jason Derulo.

7. Plan an epic senior bar crawl and visit all of the local bars one last time. Make a plan to chug that whole barrel by yourself instead of trying to push it off to you friends.

8. Have a bonfire. Burn all of the books you couldn’t resell, every syllabus, every single essay your professor covered with those annoy red marks, every group project; burn it all and then make s’mores.

9. Go to karaoke night at Irish Penny, pick the most ridiculous song you could possible do and sing your heart out. It’s the last time you’ll see these people, so just embarrass yourself this once.


10. Have a huge brunch date with all of your friends one last time.

11. Take a random road trip up to Philly or New York for no reason other than to get a classic cheese-steak or New York styled pizza.

12. Crash a random party.

13. Make a random friend at said random party. This is the last time you can bond with someone over the bottle of Captain Morgan you brought.


14. Ask that cute boy you’ve seen around Commons out. You know, that boy you practically drool over so much in front of your friends that it’s become a running joke.

15. Make one last honorary round to all of your favorite party houses.

16. Day drink with the alcohol you gave up after freshman year; the one you got so sick on that one Friday night, that you swore it off for the rest of your life. It’s time to reclaim that drink and make it your own again.

17. Walk into your last final dressed in the most comfortable pajamas you own.

18. Try and pop a bottle of champagne with your roommates after your finals are over, pray you don’t get hit with the cork, and celebrate the end of a beautiful era.

19. Make it out to Seacrets after graduation. Rally with your friends one last time, makeup with lost connections and make sure you don’t have any regrets before leaving.


But here’s the thing, you don’t need to do this bucket list, because I already know you’ve got one somewhere hidden. It’s probably full of every single crazy stunt you’ve always wanted to try and every courageous thought you’ve dared imagine, but never had the guts to follow through on.

So go out now,and start checking off that list.

I don’t think these are the best days of our lives, I know that there are so many more spontaneous and beautiful moments left; but I know that the second we cross that stage at graduation everything is going to change, and I don’t want miss out on this moment right now, because I was too afraid to live.

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