Ep 14.2 Bonus Careers -- College Bucket List
AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast07/27/19 • 18 min
14.2 Appendix to Career Episodes
(or watch YouTube video here)
College Bucket List (things to do before you graduate)
____ Buy a stapler
____ Find your trusted news site
____ Identify role models (from history, business world, or family)
____ Get a passport
____ Bike or walk the Kearney trail from Cottonmill to Ft. Kearny
____ Attend a free play put on by the Theatre dept (bonus points for trying out for a play)
____ Go to MONA at least once every semester
____ Identify your craft (writing, photography, music, arts and craft, drawing, etc.)
____ Attend a reading by an author or poet
____ Find your favorite outdoor spot on campus
____ Identify your coffee habit (if not at all)
____ Find your perfect writing instrument
____ See a music performance at the Fine Arts Building
____ Recreate on the quad in spring
____ Go to a campus speaker sponsored by a different college from your major (bonus points for raising your hand during the Q&A)
____ See a foreign language film at the World Theater
____ Identify the country you most want to visit (bonus points for checking out study abroad possibilities even if you think don’t have the time or money)
____Volunteer in the community or in a campus imitative
____ Figure out your health regime (what to eat/ how and when to exercise)
____ Take on a leadership role in campus organization
____ Study or write a paper in a café (like Baritas or Calico Coffee)
____ Check out a library book you want to read for fun
____ Write a dream resume that you’d like to have by the end of your senior year
____ Make a list of 12 people you would call if you were desperate for a job; then see if you can increase the number to 40 (it’s easier to make this list when you’re not so desperate)
____ Follow up with professors/staff who put themselves forward as a mentor
____ Write and send a “letter to the editor” to the campus newspaper
____ Find a group of friends to go see the Sandhill Cranes in the spring
____ Learn to cook one infallible dish (for various potlucks that come up)
____ Identify your study spots (where will you go when you really need to study)
____ Take a Myers-Brigg personality test
____ Buy a writing handbook and an business etiquette book
____ Buy interview clothes (don’t forget shoes!)
____ Study a foreign language even if it’s not required
____ Try a new sport
____ Start a business
____Aim to visit each of your professor’s office hours at least once every semester
____Befriend an international student (bonus points if you make plans to visit them one day) or befriend an American student
____Take a poetry writing, creative writing, or screenwriting class
____Vote in an election
____Learn about investing and 401k plans for after college
____Witness a celestial event
07/27/19 • 18 min
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