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The Ubyssey’s 91 Things to do before you graduate

I have just lived through my first month at UBC. I’ve witnessed a shirtless middle age man on the 99 B-Line riding with an open beer on a Tuesday afternoon. It got better when he spilt it all over the bus, started giggling and then the man with no shoes came on the bus and started wiggling his toes in the spilt beer. My bus stop was Granville. We had some quality time together.

Besides my new friend, who I will nickname Bob, I have also witnessed students bringing road blockades into Totem Park in the middle of the night. Where they ended up, I have no idea.

I have had a bicycle fall on top of me from a bicycle rack which officially makes me fit for living in Vancouver. I’ve watched the sun set over wreck beach from the Marine Drive Parkade. I’ve recieved 7 “I’m thinking of you..” or “Welcome home!” cards from my mother.. and I’ve only known my mailing address for not even 5 weeks. I haven’t even included the junk mail she’s forwarding me.. like flyers for gym memberships to Ontario only facilities… or a pay stub from work.. or that random pen..

Then my friend told me about the ’91 Things to do before you graduate’ list put out by The Ubyssey in August. You can check it out for yourself here. And seriously- check it out. I laughed pretty hard and I couldn’t include it all. It got me thinking, if all of these experiences have already happened to me I wonder what I can cross off the list already. Or maybe I can pick out what I really want to set out to accomplish. I know that there are so many of them out there that are so completely true about UBC that it makes me proud.

2 Hotbox an elevator in the Rose Garden Parkade and scare Chan Centre patrons as they leave a lovely evening at the theatre. – I was just told last night that people actually do this, and that is hilarious, but as a Blog Squaddy, I can not approve of such actions, yo.

5 Deface the “E” (engineering cairn on Main Mall) with your faculty’s colours. – I have not defaced the “E” yet but, my favorite moment is when I walked past the Ski and Board Club defacing it and then taking photos of them jumping in front of their piece of art.. with pieces of their clothes removed..

14 Snowball fight. We don’t like snow that much, but if it’s there, you might as well set up a fortress and launch ice grenades at your mortal enemy (eg. TA). Don’t forget to snag a cafeteria tray and sled down the Knoll, while it’s still around. – I’m game.

17 Make an ass of yourself in front of everyone in the room at Karaoke night at the Gallery.
18 No, impress the pants off of every-one in the room at Karaoke night. – The day will come.

24 Find the Farm (and then help us find it, if you don’t mind). – Hahahaha. I have to say, UBC Farm squash in Honour Roll Sushi in October is a swell idea. But yet, no one knows where this farm is.

34 Jump on the bouncy bushes, sober or drunk. – Just don’t rip open your butt on them and then have to call 911 and try to explain to them that your location is the bouncy bushes and you need help at 3am on a Monday. Happy 18th Birthday Katie!

60 Become addicted to Facebook. Have it ruin your life. – Farmville too… shh..

68 Get safewalked. – Checkkkk. Not going to lie, one of them was pretty cute.

73 Go on a roadtrip with a group of friends. Try not to die. – I’ll try not to die, but I’m not promising anything.

77 Get those yam fries from Mahoney’s. – YAM FRIES? I’M THERE.

78 Get those apples from the annual Apple Festival at the Botanical Gardens. – Going this weekend with the girl from the mustache party!

91 Read every issue of The Ubyssey. Har har. – I pick you up in Lasserre all the time, my friend.

Gossip Girl Season Premiere? pfft let’s embarrass Erica on the internet instead.

If you haven’t already met Mark, a fellow first year UBC Blog Squad Member, you probably should. Today I developed a really bad cold and was lucky enough to have classes from 9am-4pm today with a 2 hour reading break in the library. I haven’t even had classes for one week and I’m already sick- lucky me. So when I decided to take a nap this evening, Mark showed up at my door with Ikea ginger snap cookies and some cough syrup. After working on healing my short little body, he took me to his room to brew me some lovely tea to help my throat. What a sweetheart. See, use bloggers are the best souls in the world.

So here’s the fun part. Mark is half aware of this and half unaware. He gave me some blackhead strips to try out for fun and suggested I wait until I’m healed later this week. Little does he know that I am a huge fan of public embarrassment and I decided to take photos and blog about my experience of trying blackhead strips for the first time. He also doesn’t know that I’m advertising this on my blog either (surprise!) or that I have no respect for my ill little body and I went ahead and put them on my face during today’s Gossip Girl season premiere that everyone but me was watching. PS, Kevin our Residence Coordinator loves Gossip Girl and has a flat screen tv in his room to watch it on. Pure dedication.

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Meet Maegan and Megan! Roommates and the photographers for the evening’s events.

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Before shot of my face in our Totem bathroom.

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I’m absolutely crazy about LUSH products and it’s all I use. Here’s my super weird looking facial scrub called Dark Angel.

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Scrubbing up my face getting ready for the blackhead strips.

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Applying the white strips to my forehead and nose.

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Directions: Leave on face for 10-15 minutes until it hardens.

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Step 2: Blue steal.

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Harden quicker blackhead strips, I know I look hot and all in them but I’ve got readings to do.

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Step 3: Texting Vanier friends while waiting for the time to pass is a must.

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Step 4: Time’s up! Let’s get pulling!

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Getting the most painful one done first: the nose strip.

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Blackhead removal action that you cannot see which is great because that would be just awkward.

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The forehead strip hurt more then I thought. Thanks Mark for providing me with entertainment.

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Strips are all done! Thank goodness. Time to clean off the strip area again with my crazy black stuff that scares people.

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Now some LUSH Tea Tree Toner.. ohhhh yeahh 🙂

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Squeaky clean! Results: Some blackheads were removed from my nose area but, I should of left it on a little bit longer instead of getting inpatient around the 12 minute mark. I am now ready to go to class lookin’ gooood and to surprise Mark with this blog post. 🙂

Here’s a story… my friends told me to post this.

On the first day of classes last week, I spent the entire 50 minutes that my Poli Sci class takes lost in the Chem building looking for the lecture hall. Turns out, I should of been looking for room 150, not room 105 because room 105 surely does not exist hence why I never found it. I ended up in the basement of the Chem building many times in restricted area where all kinds of crazy testing goes on with doors saying “DO NOT ENTER” and danger symbols. I’m smart, that’s why I’m here getting a degree, right?

Today, yes indeed my friends, I found the Tutorial for the Poli Sci class just fine. We were asked to define liberty and I cannot help but think of this clip from the “MANtage” at 43 seconds into the video. I brought it up with some people in the tutorial but they looked at me like I was from space. Little do they know how badly I wish UBC was in space…

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UBC should have a campus in space.

I’ve been reading up on the UBC Trek 2010 stuff to make UBC a “world class university.” Heck, from day one someone at the board room table should of just said “Let’s Trump everyone and go to space!” I don’t ask how, rather I ask why not! If I opened up a 2009 UBC Viewbook for potential students and it listed a campus in space, I would of handed in my tuition cheque on the spot. Come on guys, let’s dream big. Also as a second suggestion, they should of listed the FirstWeek Ikea trip in the Viewbook too because that’s also another reason (very close to being better then the space campus pull) why I would of chosen UBC on the spot.

If UBC was in space, could there still be an Ikea FirstWeek trip though? Sauder students would then have to spend their entire 4th year trying to work their business school magic to convince the Swedish that opening up an Ikea store in space will generate a huge profit! But imagine if I could have the best of both worlds. Space and Ikea. My only other request would be to have one of those jumping inflatable castles and see how high I could bounce without the restrictions of Earth gravity.