100 Things You Must Do at Wellesley (the chaotic version)
By Counterpoint Staff
Ascend to the top of the Galen Stone Tower
Fall unconditionally in love with: a building.
Be humbled.
Go to a professor’s house; eat a sandwich.
Wave to someone you think you know who turns out to be a stranger. They wave back.
Have an impromptu dance party with your roommate because you simply cannot do work anymore.
Have plumbing problems in your shower.
Meet a first-year you think is a senior.
Meet a senior you think is a first-year.
See your professors absolutely drunk off their asses at an end of the year party.
Trespass onto the Hunnewell Estates
Cross the street to avoid a flock of geese.
Cross the street to avoid a group of Babson boys.
Eat SO much honey roasted peanut butter.
Have a Babson boy approach you at Remix and ask you if you know what Babson is.
Take up embroidery and crocheting.
Fall asleep in a common room.
Watch your friend sleep in a common room.
Get really into peanut/sunflower butter.
Start to get sick of peanut/sunflower butter.
Develop and defend a ranked list of the dining halls.
Consider changing your major (as a junior).
Nod when someone asks if you go to Wesleyan.
Use “It’s Hillary Clinton’s alma mater” as a description when someone asks what Wellesley is.
Fail.
Withdraw once you realize you’re going to fail.
Jump out of the shower and run outside in your towel when the fire alarm goes off.
Stand outside in the freezing December weather during a fire drill.
Consider studying abroad.
Study abroad and then spend the next year talking about nothing else.
Forget entirely about primal scream and then nearly have a heart attack when it happens.
Miss the Wellesley Square Station and walk from Natick.
Sit in Lulu for three hours to stake out a place in the line for Moonlight Breakfast.
Get none (or ¼) of the classes that you want at registration––and then complain about the registration system for a week after.
Get stuck in an elevator while turning in a problem set at midnight.
Get stranded in Cambridge when the bus simply does not show up.
Smile at someone you do not know.
Unintentionally sass a professor about their childcare choices.
Go ice skating in the Boston Common in 30 degree weather.
Go for a tranquil lake walk while listening to a politically enraging podcast.
Take artsy pics in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and put them on Instagram.
Correct a family friend when they say “oh, so you go to an all-girls school.”
Participate in a chain of sibs holding the door open for each other.
Try to figure out whether Lulu actually has no right angles.
Try to figure out why Lulu has no right angles.
Fall in love with the cute stranger you make eye contact with for ten seconds on the T.
Screech in a Clapp Library study room, then figure out ten minutes later that they’re not soundproof. At all.
Bookmark an org event in your mind not because you like the org, but because you know they always have a lot of leftover Lemon Thai.
Join a list of on campus organizations because they all sound interesting, but then don’t come to their meetings.
Stare outside a second floor Lulu window at 1 am and feel some type of way.
Make a lot of collaborative Spotify playlists with your friends.
Wake up before noon on Saturday for Joe’s fried rice and eggs, and only for that.
Know the timing down to the second of how long it takes to run from your dorm to your 8:30 in Pendleton.
Burn yourself on a radiator.
Get a Wellesley chop.
Spend all your Flex Dollars within the first month of the semester.
Complain about how early the dining halls close.
Participate in psychology studies for money.
Wait in line for the last free Loco bus on Fridays.
Miss the last Loco bus. (Pro tip: the latest weekend Loco listed on the website isn’t actually the last Loco that runs from Cambridge–-there’s one more that runs right after it!)
Run away from someone’s unleashed dog by Lake Waban.
Give a stranger a compliment!
Help dye someone’s hair in the communal bathroom (or dye your own!)
Watch Mona Lisa Smile with your high school friends and then spend the next four years convincing them that’s not actually what Wellesley is like.
Take pictures with your friends when the trees flower in the spring.
Learn something new about Wellesley (junior year).
Procrastinate (alternatively: convince someone else to procrastinate).
Wonder if New England weather hates you, personally.
Risk your life walking on that narrow path from the Science Center to East Side dorms at night.
Get ice cream from Truly’s and wander around the nearby neighborhoods.
Accidentally wander through someone’s high school photoshoot on campus.
Walk your Community Director’s dog!
Get really into hydration.
Learn that there used to be lead in the lake.
Take a midterm the last week of classes.
Complete a group project with someone halfway around the world from you.
Meet a professor’s pet, small child, or small pet.
Make a really good point (while muted on Zoom).
Have a professor assign their own work as a reading.
End up in a breakout room by yourself.
Listen to a professor rant about their relationship problems in office hours.
Spend all of Zoom class on Twitter and almost not notice when class ends, so you’re awkwardly the last person on the call.
Have Graham Central Station become your favorite ice cream.
Develop a tolerance, then a love for Magical Unicorn ice cream.
Cry about ice cream.
Sit in silence while your professor tries to figure out how to share their screen even though it’s halfway through the term.
Start Zoom class at your desk and end it in your bed.
Try (and fail) to not laugh when a professor doesn’t realize their internet connection is on the fritz and continues asking questions.
Accidentally sleep through a decent chunk of a class and have an existential crisis when you wake up.
Wake up to your dorm’s cold water being yellow.
See your professor at Starbucks while writing a paper for their class...that’s due later that day.
Stalk your professors online...and then find out that when you look up someone’s Facebook profile, you show up in their “People You May Know” list.
Fall in love with the goslings even though you complain about and run from the geese all the time.
Learn from your French professor that, “Technically, Bradley Cooper is a Wellesley alum because he participated in Wellesley-in-Aix.”
Spend three years waving to someone you took one class with once in first year.
Have a crush on someone you took a class with first year and still get excited when they post on Instagram.
Wait a little too long to do laundry.
Forget that you put something in the washer/dryer and almost fall out of your seat in the common room when the timer goes off.
Step gingerly around the goose poop on the sidewalk.
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From the April/May 2021 issue.