My how fast four years flies by! It is hard to believe a little more than three years ago, I was packing up all my things, loading them in the car and heading to the happiest valley on earth! Now that I have a little more than six months left here, I’d like to take a moment and reflect on the things I’ve been able to do and the things I still have left to complete, my bucket list, if you will.
Although I have never before written my bucket list down, over the past three years I’ve added to it mentally. With plenty of older family members and friends that came to Penn State before me, I heard quite a few times, “you have to do it before you graduate!”
So here goes, my very own Penn State Bucket List:
ü Make new friends in my freshman dorm. I came into Penn State with a few older friends I had met through my older siblings and 4-H activities, but I wanted to be sure I put myself out there and made new friends my own age.
ü Try the food at every commons, especially brunch at West Commons. After all, West is best!
ü Make the Dean’s List at least four semesters. My parents appreciated this one.
ü Serve as an Ag Advocate for the College of Agricultural Sciences.
ü Get Football season tickets and attend as many games as possible.
ü Have Grilled Stickies at The Diner.
ü Join at least three clubs on campus. Dairy Science Club, National Agri-Marketing Association and Ag Advocates activities have been some of my fondest memories.
ü Complete at least one summer internship. Internships with the Center for Dairy Excellence and AgChoice Farm Credit taught me real-world experience in a limited time period.
ü Climb Mt. Nittany.
ü Stay up all night studying for an exam or writing a paper. Unfortunately, this happened just last week.
ü Join a fraternity or sorority. I’m proud to call myself a Sister of Alpha Zeta Fraternity.
ü Sit in the “S-Zone” at a football game. In my junior year, I sat in the “S-Zone” for the two best games of the season: Iowa State and Ohio State.
ü Be a leader in a club or organization.
ü Travel internationally with a class or organization. Over Spring Break in 2009, I traveled to Ireland with the Dairy Science Club. What an amazing experience!
ü Serve as night crew at the Nittany Lion Fall Classic Sale.
ü Compete in the Spring Dairy Expo. I went back to my 4-H days in the spring 2010 as I competed in the showmanship and fitting contest, run by the Dairy Science Club.
Now for a few of the things I didn’t quite get to yet:
o Jump in Whipple Dam. Think I’ll leave this one until late in the spring semester now.
o Meet Joe Paterno.
o Go to a Women’s Volleyball Match. Running out of time, but I think I can still make one.
o Go to the top of the Old Main Tower.
o Go to a Penn State Basketball game.
o Walk on the field of Beaver Stadium.
I can’t believe four years could fly by so fast. Looking back, I see that I’ve had a lot of great opportunities to do some pretty cool things as a Penn State student. Now I have a semester and a few weeks to finish off my list, graduate and start the next chapter of my life. If I don’t get to check off every item on the list, I guess I’ll join the ranks as a loyal alumna and finish my list when I come back to visit.
Now I wonder what my next bucket list will look like. Any suggestions?
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