150 THINGS NIP STUDENTS MUST DO BEFORE THEY GRADUATE


1. Watch a movie at the Champlain Cinemas.
2. E-mail annoying chain letters to your friends in the hopes of having good luck.
3. Rent a video from 'Cyclops' on Gormanville Road.
4. Complain about North Bay's transit system.
5. Buy Dr. Marshall a tea and sit down to chat with him.
6. Dance to Spirit of the West's Home For A Rest at The Wall.
7. Attend at least one keg party.
8. Spend a day on the hiking trails, taking time out for a picnic at the falls.
9. Make lame and thoroughly unoriginal jokes about Canadore students.
10. Stand in line for something.
11. Read, cover-to-cover at least one full issue of the North Bay Nugget.
12. Read, cover-to-cover at least three full issues of The Hibou.
13. Drink a green demon at The Wall.
14. Actively promote and/or participate in at least one BACCHUS event.
15. Do some wild and crazy partying during Frosh Week (Bonus points awarded if you are an upper-year student who is NOT a Frosh Leader and you still do this!)
16. Go to Fanny's and/or the Moe-Z-On-Inn.
17. Attend an event at the Capitol Centre.
18. Make rude, jaded, and completely justified comments about Dr. Hall's wretched multiple-choice exams (NOTE: Insert professor's name of your choice).
19. Watch a North Bay Centennials game at Memorial Gardens.
20. Dance on one of The Wall's speakers.
21. Watch Dazed & Confused, Half Baked, or Strange Brew after a long night at the bar.
22. Ride every bus offered by North Bay Transit at least once (it does not have to be for the full route).
23. Walk down the crooked stairs while carrying your coffee on Monday morning.
24. Eat some pizza from each of the pizza companies in North Bay.
25. Watch an episode of each of The Simpsons, South Park, S Club 7 and The Drew Carey Show on the TV in Alumni Lounge.
26. Attend at least one university-related trip (NUSU, NUSAC, club trip, etc.)
27. Play at least one game of mini-putt at King Cone.
28. Bitch about the price of books at the bookstore, proceed to buy your books there, and then never read them.
29. Take a ride with U-Need-A-Cab.
30. Contend with the woeful computers in the Treehouse.
31. Get a job.
32. Thoroughly kick someone's ass in pool until losing the game because you scratch on the eight.
33. Live in residence.
34. Make faces to the surveillance cameras.
35. Ask a professor for an extension on an assignment.
36. Request for a room to be opened by security services.
37. Visit the North Bay Public Library and sign out some
material.
38. Read a novel - unassigned.
39. Participate, in some fashion, in Shinerama.
40. Sign the Treehouse wall.
41. Mispronounce Al Carfagnini's last name.
42. Kiss a male/kiss a female.
43. Vote and/or run in a NUSU election.
44. Discover long-expired food in your fridge.
45. Volunteer to be the DD.
46. Attend a concert at The Wall and then make rude and completely irrational comments about how loud it is.
47. Join a club.
48. Set off the book-alarm at the front of the library.
49. When riding the bus, count the discrepancy between the number of beeps the driver enters and the number of people boarding at that time.
50. Lose an entire essay (or, better yet, GIS Project) when your computer dies.
51. Send someone a birthday card without anyone having reminded you.
52. Flippantly remark about the amount of campaign posters candidates put on the walls during Executive elections.
53. Visit the 'It Store' and laugh at some of the merchandise.
54. Catch one of your professors in a drunken state.
55. Have an outdoor couch party in residence.
56. Live off-campus.
57. Return to your high school and reminisce.
58. Purchase a product from one of the Canadore students when they do their sales practica.
59. Marvel at some of the designs at Hammerhead Creations.
60. Contemplate getting a tattoo.
61. Attempt explaining to your friends who are attending a southern Ontario university how you are able to go from class to class within one minute.
62. Endure endless jokes about Nipissing from your friends who chose other universities.
63. Use your Interac card to purchase one small candy worm at Pal's.
64. Make a PowerPoint presentation.
65. Participate in Winter Classic in an attempt to dethrone "The Regulators" as the drunkest team participating.
66. Get an irritating song stuck in your head for days on end.
67. Buy a CD at Star Trax or the Hock Shop.
68. Play varsity and/or intra-mural sports.
69. Kiss NUSU's ass. Have them kiss yours. Kiss theirs...etc.
70. When an Arts & Science student, point out the irony that Education students, adept at blocking the hallways, will one day be getting children to line up in single-file in an orderly fashion. When an Education student, point out the irony that the Arts & Science students who are complaining will soon be blocking the hallways themselves!
71. Cheer on the Lakers during a home game.
72. Return a long overdue library book.
73. Go to Casey's on your birthday with friends, family, or "that special someone."
74. Get Wayne to serve you in the cafeteria.
75. Phone home for money.
76. Use video games as an excuse to procrastinate.
77. Sleep in through an 8:30 a.m. class.
78. Sleep in through a 1:30 p.m. class.
79. Watch a movie at the Gateway theatre.
80. Run around residence in your underwear or bathrobe.
81. Flash your neighbours.
82. Visit the Muskoka Campus in Bracebridge and make smart-ass remarks by comparing it to Santa's Village.
83. Swear at the folks in the Finance Office when waiting in line, but thank them profusely when they hand over your OSAP papers.
84. Slide spaghetti noodles through the walls in old residence houses.
85. Run through the halls of Nipissing, yelling and screaming, when it is virtually empty.
86. Mix your lights and darks in the washing machine. Better yet, mix lights and reds.
87. Clean a toilet after vomiting in it.
88. Volunteer for a local event.
89. Walk through both Northgate and North Bay Malls without buying a damn thing.
90. Tell someone that you love him/her.
91. Go to a formal and/or semi-formal.
92. Recycle.
93. Cram for an exam the night before writing it.
94. Borrow a video camera from UTS and make a complete ass of yourself on video.
95. Go see Sue Johanson at the Nipissing theatre and ask her to show you how to put a condom on.
96. Be the butt of the joke and laugh at yourself.
97. Slip on the icy paths leading to school in the middle of the winter multiple times.
98. Go commando, ensuring that your zipper is ALWAYS done up.
99. Exhibit school spirit.
100. Participate in one of the lame games on Fox 102 in the morning.
101. Sit down with a circle of friends to hold a lewd and disgusting conversation.
102. Visit the War Memorial.
103. Sign the Canadian Shield in bright colours down College Drive hill.
104. Surf the 'Net for "artwork" while in the computer lab.
105. Eat wings at a North Bay location of your choice.
106. Tell off a professor who really deserves it.
107. Pierce something.
108. Plan to make yourself a gourmet meal but settle for Kraft Dinner.
109. Do some serious soul-searching only to find...nothing.
110. Have loud sex, annoying your roommates and/or neighbours.
111. Summon up the courage to bang on the walls and tell off your neighbour/roommate to keep it down when s/he is having loud sex (Bonus points awarded if #111 occurs very soon after # 110).
112. Get caught in the act of staring at the person to whom you are attracted.
113. Wait for hours in a North Bay emergency room.
114. Drag yourself out of bed at an ungodly hour of the morning to have breaky at The Highwayman.
115. Watch a porno and wonder aloud whether Kenny G supplied the soundtrack.
116. Set off the smoke alarms in a new residence house, preferably after everyone else in the house has fallen asleep.
117. Call Much Dedications and dedicate "Shut Up and Sleep With Me," to someone who you know wants nothing to do with you.
118. Go to bed after the sun comes up, and wake up after the sun goes down (on the same day, of course).
119. Dress up as a member of the opposite sex.
120. Sing/chant/scream or otherwise vocalize the Nipissing Drinking Cheer. 121. Experiment...
122. Make comments to your fellow students about how much Dr. Plumstead resembles Albert Einstein.
123. Sleep through a class after arriving to it on time (Bonus points if you do it during a test!)
124. Wake up early (say, before 9:00 a.m.) and watch every episode of Sportsdesk on TSN until noon.
125. React to some bad news by proverbially 'shooting the messenger' instead of going to the source to make your feelings known.
126. Enjoy brownies that your mother would not approve of.
127. Console someone who did not get into Teachers' College.
128. Party with someone who got into Teachers' College.
129. Sit around trying to think of something to do with your 3-year History Degree after you don't get into Teachers' College and are being consoled.
130. Visit The Portage and Top Spot and laugh at the local wildlife.
131. Learn more from one game of Trivial Pursuit than from a course that you just paid $700.00 for.
132. Stick your foot in your mouth on more than one occasion.
133. Find out who "The Ladies' Man" is and laugh at the cruel irony.
134. Attend a Lakers' soccer game while hungover and heckle BOTH teams.
135. Take a cruise on the Chief Commanda.
136. Purchase something at Rebuilt Resources.
137. Attempt to cut down a Christmas tree with a butter knife.
138. Penetrate deep into Canadore territory (interpret this however you wish).
139. 'Acquire' restaurant accessories around North Bay.
140. Don't bring or buy any cutlery - and leave at the end of the year with 3 full sets of it.
141. Ride on one of the residence's moving carts.
142. Act terminally lazy and ride the elevator to avoid going up/going down one flight of stairs.
143. Spend some time in the new Athletic Facility, imagining much more creative names for it than the Nipissing University Students' Athletic Centre (NUSAC).
144. Pay the graduation fee of $34.00, wondering why one should have to pay such a fee.
145. Go to the Psych Hospital...as a visitor.
146. React disgustedly to a piece of e-mail that someone sends you, then forward it to as many people as you know.
147. Acquire an e-mail account other than the one that the school provides you.
148. Argue with someone just for the sake of arguing, even though you know your own point of view is quite ludicrous.
149. Exchange addresses with your roommates when they prepare to move out and then never write/call/e-mail them over the summer.
150. Sit around, wasting your time, creating pointless lists.