We only have a short period of time at the University of British Columbia, so your friends at The Ubyssey have complied list of must-dos at UBC.
Warning: Finishing this bucket list will make you the coolest kid on the block.
1. Write for The Ubyssey
2. Make it your only personality trait
3. Visit the Museum of Anthropology
4. Go to class
5. Skip class
6. Play ping pong in the Marine Drive commonsblock
7. Learn how to administer naloxone
8. Apply for year-round housing
9. Have a waitlist number in the 10,000s
10. Go to Rain or Shine every Tuesday for Taco Tuesday
11. Do improv! ‘Yes, and’ that bitch
12. Unionize something
13. Develop a deep hatred for Buchanan D
14. Get into a screaming match with the campus seagulls
15. Get hospitalized for being attacked by the campus seagulls
16. Beg a bus driver to let you on the bus after you forgot to load your Compass Card
17. Eat breakfast cooked by a rat in Open Kitchen
18. Go bar-hopping at The Gallery, Koerner’s, Browns and The Pit
19. Sign an email “Tuum Est”
20. Find Eeyore at The Ubyssey office
21. Go Global!
22. Never shut up about how you studied abroad
23. Volunteer at Sprouts
24. Learn you’re lactose intolerant after a fateful Mercante trip
25. Go to the Rose Garden
26. Laugh at the Rose Garden
27. Cry at the Rose Garden
28. Be featured on the UBC fashion TikTok
29. Buy a membership to the gym
30. Never go
31. Do the polar bear plunge
32. Join an intramural team
33. Live in a basement suite
34. Rejoice when you’re above ground again
35. Apply to be an RA
36. Cry when you get rejected
37. Buy a $60 UBC hoodie
38. Wear it with pride
39. Have a student politician phase
40. Thank god it’s over
41. Lose your Compass Card
42. Buy a new one
43. Find your old one
44. Lose both of them
45. Buy another Compass Card
46. Go to Nitobe Garden to reconnect with nature
47. Go to Nitobe Garden to reconnect with your ex
48. Find the naked hippies at Wreck Beach; feel self-conscious about wearing clothes
49. Skinny-dip in the Pacific Ocean
50. Emerge from the ocean into a crowd of clothed engineering students; feel self-conscious about being naked
51. Go to a house show
52. Get free dinner at AMS Council
53. Protest something
54. Counter-protest something
55. Steal an umbrella from the Life Building bathroom
56. Have your umbrella stolen from the Life Building bathroom
57. Take a nap in Irving K Barber Learning Centre
58. Develop an irrational fear of Santa Ono
59. Steal utensils from Gather
60. Be the only fan at a T-Birds game
61. Immerse yourself in culture by going to Block Party
62. Have a cameo in something that’s filming on campus
63. Ride the Ubyssey’s tandem bike with your friends
64. Go watch a play at the Freddy Wood
65. Get kicked out off an on campus coffee shop for studying too hard
66. Bring your own cup to get $0.25 off your coffee
67. Cry at the Robert Wyman Plaza so your wails reverberate back at you
68. Join a frat that’s actually a polycule
69.
70. Learn what ‘Goblin Mode’ means
71. Go Goblin Mode
72. Livetweet a lecture because you’re just different that way, I guess
73. Send a drunken email to your favourite professor
74. Take a picture of the cherry blossoms (we love cherry blossoms)
75. Make a friend in every faculty but Sauder
76. Find out what the fuck ‘Goosehunt’ is
77. Do a Reddit AMA on r/UBC
78. Fall in love on the 99 B-Line
79. Meet Cotton and Teddy
80. Become friends with the folks at UBC Farm
81. Vote in AMS Elections (that shit matters)
82. Forget to check Google Maps before registering for classes and sprint down Main Mall every week
83. Meet Kip the Coyote
84. Create a splint for their broken leg.
85. Go on a first date at The Point
86. Yell at your computer every time enrolment services emails you to remind you about tuition payments
87. Run for AMS president as a joke candidate
88. Actually win
89. Wonder if it’s hormones or exam season that’s making you sad
90. Have the fire alarm pulled on you at 3 a.m.
91. Seek revenge on whoever the fuck did that why the fuck would you do that
92. Learn that the Harry Potter room isn’t even that cool
93. Go to the 24-hour McDonalds once every hour of every day
94. Be pretentious about something
95. Lose your wallet
96. Lose yourself
97. Bring back the Undie Run
98. Trick-or-treat at Norman MacKenzie House
99. Be a cool first year and spend all your Flex Dollars at Triple O’s
100. Change your major
101. No, not this one
102. Change your major (again)
103. Dab on stage while getting your degree
104. Graduate
The article is part of The Ubyssey's Guide to UBC. To read more, visit ubyssey.ca/guide/2022.
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