Carleton College

Eat

• Eat breakfast at the Tavern
• Go to Farmington Steak House
• Eat an entire Boonie Boonie Burger at Boonie’s Bar & Grill in Faribault
• Bake cookies at Dacie’s
• Go to Sunday brunch at Dacie’s
• Attend Chili Night

Drink

• Play Quiz Night trivia at the Contented Cow
• Hang out upstairs at the Rueb
• Do the beer mile
• Party in the Libe
• Party in an academic building
• Party at Farm House

Be merry

• Go to Mai Fête
• Take social dance
• Stand under the whirring blades of the turbine
• Shake your booty at Ebony
• Shake your booty at Silent Dance Party
• Attend Spring Concert
• Frolic in the Boliou fountain
• Play Strip Jenga
• Have a movie night with friends at Sumo
• Sunbathe on the football field 

Then sleep (preferably at night)

• Sleep in the Arb
• Sleep in the Libe
• Sleep on the roof of the Chapel
• Sleep on the Bald Spot
• Have a sleepover
• Share a single dorm bed
• Sleep in on Sunday

Get acquainted

• Chat with a professor in the aisle at Econofoods
• Have tea with President Oden
• Bake cookies and share them with friends (or strangers)
• Spend three consecutive hours in Sayles on a Friday
• Send a Friday Flower to a secret crush
• Invite a professor to lunch

Don’t forget the part where you learn something

• Take a course in a subject you know nothing about
• Learn to play a musical instrument that you’ve never heard of (like the mbira)
• Underload
• Take a class from history professor Harry Williams
• Go to a physics comps talk
• Study in the CMC until the custodians arrive at 5:00 a.m.

Expand your horizons

• Observe the stars in Goodsell
• Travel abroad
• Explore a tunnel
• Stay on campus over the summer
• Write an editorial for the Carletonian
• Write for the CLAP (the Carleton Literary Association Publication)
• Dig in at one of the campus gardens
• Go inside every single building on campus at least once
• Go vegetarian for a week
• Have an existential crisis 

Get to know Northfield

• Attend a town meeting
• Volunteer
• Attend Defeat of Jesse James Days

Oh! And get some exercise, too

• Ride a yellow bike
• Skate on the Bald Spot
• Toss a Frisbee
• Play Quidditch
• Play Ultimate Frisbee
• Play Rotblatt—all day
• Ride your bike on the Cannon Valley Trail
• Sled down Bell Hill
• Play broomball
• Run laps on the outdoor track (clothing optional)
• Do the triathlon
• Climb the oak trees on the Hill of Three Oaks

Live dangerously

• Steal Schiller
• Streak—in winter
• Tube on the Cannon River
• Go swimming in the Cannon
• Walk on Lyman Lakes (when they’re frozen, of course)
• Climb to the top of the Chapel bell tower
• Dance naked at a Sayles dance
• Get lost in the Arb
• Fight against Res Life in order to reduce a fine

What does this mean, kids? *

• Write some Vinayak graffiti in a bathroom stall
• Take your shirt off at midnight during “Like a Prayer”
• Book Across the Bay
• Play Settlers of Catan—any beverage welcome
• Have a Malory Family Fun Night 

* Carleton students fill us in.

• Famous for its humor, Vinayak graffiti invents legends about Vinayak Jithendranathan ’08 and has been spotted in bathrooms as far away as Paris.
• Stripping to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” is a long-standing Carleton party tradition.
• Book Across the Bay is a 10K cross-country ski race across the Chequamegon Bay in Ashland, Wisconsin.
• A German board game, Settlers of Catan has sold more than 15 million copies and been translated into 30 languages.
• The Malory family stars in a series of steamy historical romance novels by Johanna Lindsey.

What did we forget? Send your list of things every student should do to voice@carleton.edu.