51 things to do before you graduate Western University

As two fourth-year students who have had their fair share of nights-out on Richmond Row and crying sessions in campus bathrooms, we’ve put together a bucket list of things we think every Mustang needs to do before they get their diploma.

Whether this is your first year in London, Ont. or your last, take it from us — you cannot leave Western University saying you’ve had “the best student experience” without checking a few things off this list.

1. Eat a white-chocolate macadamia nut cookie from The Spoke 

2. Wear slippers to campus 

3. Grab a drink with a professor at The Grad Club 

4. Get your roommates to give you a haircut and then regret it for the next six months 

5. Take a selfie with the goose mascot

6. Submit an assignment on OWL at 11:59 p.m. 

7. Chase after a London Transit Commission bus

8. Go tobogganing down UC Hill

9. Get your name in the Western Gazette 

10. Get a pitcher of red-wine sangria at Los Lobos 

11. Sing a Bruno Mars song at Molly Bloom’s karaoke 

12. Use a microwave on campus

13. Take a book out at Weldon Library just because you can

14. Tip a drag queen a $5 bill at Lavish

15. Brave the hour-long line-up to get a precious bagel from The Spoke

16. Attend an opera at the Don Wright Faculty of Music 

17. Sneak into the Ivey building and use their fancy showers 

18. Cry in your professor’s office hours

19. Get a pizza from the pizza vending machine in the UCC

20. Meet Alan Shepard’s dog Meisha

21. Take a shameless BeReal in a lecture hall 

22. Consume at least six shots of espresso in 24 hours

23. Make DIY Western merch from the Book Store’s sale section 

24. Study at an off-campus cafe

25. See the student art displays at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre 

26. Go for a dip in the Western Student Recreation Centre pool and smell like chlorine for a week 

27. Grab a bite from one of the food trucks on Concrete Beach in between classes 

28. Disassociate from reality at a cubicle in Taylor Library

29. Get a line dancing lesson at Cowboys Ranch

30. Catch an indie or classic movie at The Hyland Cinema

31. Try the coffee from a campus vending machine (and prepare to be disappointed) 

32. Eat a cruffin at Black Walnut Bakery Cafe

33. Go vintage shopping on Dundas Street

34. Successfully, or at least mediocrely, finish a class without doing a single reading  

35. Write an exam while hungover 

36. Vote in the University Student Council election

37. Get an email from your professor signed “Sent from my iPhone” 

38. Sleep through 12 alarms 

39. Make direct eye contact with a goose — and run

40. Stand outside a residence at 1 a.m. because someone set off the fire alarm 

41. Hide a pet in your dorm room

42. Wait 10 minutes for the elevator in Saugeen-Maitland Hall

43. Observe the cult-like dances from the engineers at Rick McGhie’s on a Wednesday 

44. Get an autograph from the USC President 

45. Win a vibrator, cock ring or fuzzy handcuffs at Ceeps Sex Toy Bingo

46. Hype up your friend’s forum post on OWL

47. Take a candlelit yoga class at the Rec Centre 

48. Go to a Mustangs football game and pretend like you know what’s going on 

49. Bring a pillow and blanket to Club Weldon during exam season 

50. Make a viral post on r/uwo

51. Choose your classes based on what a stranger says on Facebook’s “‘Must Knows’ for courses at UWO” group