Whether you are simply heading home for winter break, feeling nostalgic in your senior year or getting ready to leave Columbia and return (like me) from a study abroad program, this is a list of all the things you absolutely must do before you go – so forget about your GPA and get cracking.
1. Take cute insta pics from Low and Butler
2. Climb Hamilton. (Like Everest but the 7th floor is duller)
3. Get over 1000 likes on buy sell memes a.k.a become an icon
4. Get into 1020 without being carded
5. Have an awkward encounter with a Tinder match
6. Befriend someone in EC (if you’re a Barnard student)
7. Sign in a bunch of Barnard students and feel immensely powerful (insert Gandalf joke here)
8. Take a festive picture with Alma
7. Call Hartley Hospitality for at least one minor inconvenience
8. Dedicate a draw to all the free merch you have collected here at Columbia (from NSOP to tree lighting, you know you still have those t-shirts)
9. Eat a jumbo slice at Koronet past midnight
10. Stick to the floor of at least one frat’s basement
11. Question your sexuality
12. Buy a crap ton of merch from the bookstore
13. Partake in a political debate you have absolutely no clue about
14. Find a seat in Butler
15. Leave Butler and go outside
16. Eat a Diana pizza for lunch
17. Write a Columbia Crushes post
18. Actually leave campus and go for a run in riverside park
19. Disgrace at least two statues on campus
20. Snap your fingers at stuff you don’t understand
21. Follow @bwog on Instagram
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