The Sandspur

Issue date: 4/29/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Well, this is it. This week is the last time that a bunch of us can say that we are college students. Now, we, the Seniors, have to go into the "real world" and become what we all have known all our lives as "adults," "responsible citizens," or, the technical term, "grown-ups." But before we do that, we should all reminisce a little, and enjoy the sweet memories of the last four years. We have much we could teach the underclassmen about how to get the most out of these short years. So here's a checklist of sorts for Seniors and underclassmen. If you're a Senior, there's a good chance you remember most of the things on this list, and if you're an underclassmen, you have your work cut out for you. Because we, the Class of 2005, have had a wild, crazy, fun four years, and we are going to be a hard act to follow.

You know you're in Rollins' Class of 2005 when you remember...

1. Catching a flying flapjack at Al's Pancake Flip
2. Spending 24 hours (or more!) in the 24-hour lab
3. Begging an off-campus student for a ride
4. Begging an on-campus student for their R-Card money
5. Getting baptized in Chi Psi's trough
6. Warming up with a "Smooth Operator" in the dance studio
7. Finding WPRK on the radio dial
8. Finding WPRK on campus
9. Seeing a play at the Annie
10. Reading a Sandspur front to back
11. Dating an ATO
12. Swimming to the ski ramp
13. Catching a 'sticky wicket' in the Annie
14. Saying "Hi!" to Scotty at 7-11
15. Saying "Hi!" to Scotty at the Post Office
16. Saying "Hi!" to Scotty in his Campus Safety Golf-Cart
17. Finding Rex Beach's grave on campus
18. Being inside the chapel's tower
19. Flipping a collar with Phi Delt
20. Experiencing the last "Experience Rollins"
21. Seeing more of a contestant than you bargained for at KD's Mr. Shamrock
22. Getting your food groups counted by Evelyn
23, Resisting joining Facebook, thinking you're too "old"
24. Joining Facebook
25. Not doing homework to do Facebook instead
26. Bowling with X-Club (for a good cause!)
27. Circling Showalter field all night for another good cause!
28. Getting a milkshake from Mae
29. Checking out a hot Chi O!
30. Being blinded by the light of the sun after a long day in Bush
31. Singing your lungs out at Big Daddy's karaoke
32. Groaning as you roll out of bed for a fire alarm at 2 am
33. Hating the kids pulling the fire alarm at 3 am
34. Actually wearing your makeup and cute pajamas to bed for the fire alarm at 4 am
35. Ignoring the fire alarm at 5 am
36. "Never forgetting your first..." Homecoming at Rollins
37. Seeing Howie Day in the Downunder
38. Grooving with Nappy Roots in the gym
39. Squealing for Gavin DeGraw in the gym
40. Dancing the nights away at Roxy
41. Having a moment of silence for Mr. Rogers
42. Going "green" to NCM's Red Light, Green Light, even if you're not
43. Fighting a parking ticket
44. Paying a parking ticket
45. Scratching your car trying to remove that boot yourself
46. Debating the '04 Election with someone from the opposing party
47. Wracking your brain for Fiddler's Trivia
48. Going "Around the World" with TKE
49. Saying goodbye to Rita
50. Saying hello to Lew Dunc!
51. Getting an 'attitude' at Attitudes
52. Dressing up and getting down with Kappa's Halloween Block Party downtown
53. Learning what a 'Mole' is at Mole Day
54. Pulling an All-Nighter with TJ's
55. Being 'seen' at Urban Flats
56. Welcoming AOPi to Rollins
57. Living like cave-people without the network or e-mail for a month
58. Taking hideous school pictures
59. Buying a yearbook anyway
60. Convincing yourself goggle marks are a fashionable new trend
61. Having a drink at Bistro's
62. Running (or sitting) in Rita's Fountain
63. Playing Fox Day Roulette
64. Kissing the Fox on Fox Day
65. Having Fox Day on the on the most undesirable day of the week
66. Wondering where the Fox's head went...
67. Sleeping in the library's pillow room
68. Laying out by the pool
69. Still going to the tanning salon
70. Staying up for 110 Hours with WPRK
71. Spiking a ball in the RCC Volleyball Tourney
72. Singing along at Lip Sync
73. Giving Chau a hug
74. Having a hurricane party
75. Having a hurricane party, again
76. Having yet another hurricane party
77. Wearing sunglasses 3x the size of your head
78. Thanking your professors in Professor Appreciation Week (and forgive them for those bad grades...)
79. Eating the world's most popular sandwich, a Panini Caprese, at Diane's
80. Walking to class from Sutton
81. Running to class late from Sutton
82. Circling for 20 minutes to find on-campus parking, refusing to go to the garage
83. Saying goodbye (and thank you!) to all the Rollins Staff
85. Getting a 'buzz' at Mocktail
86. Actually forwarding that e-mail from "Bill Gates..." to all of Rollins
87. Going abroad
88. Being jealous of your friends going abroad
89. Getting wicked at Wicket Wednesdays
90. Going to support the Tar sports teams
91. Finding out what a Tar really is...
92. Getting a doughnut from Dr. Duncan
93. Losing a paper when the network crashes in Olin
94. Smuggling illegal food items past the librarians in Olin
95. Add/Dropping every single class to get the right schedule
96. Being shocked when you actually get the right schedule as a senior
97. Getting nuts with Squirrels Gone Wild
98. Jumping into the fray over graduation tickets
99. Wondering why Panera isn't on the meal plan
100. Going to the best "hole in the wall" around- Spats
101. Fighting hunger at the World Hunger Concerts
102. Jumping into Lk. Virginia off Dinky Dock
103. Actually being scared in the haunted houses for Halloween Howl
104. Actually having fun making macaroni ornaments at Holiday Funfest
105. Getting a little nostalgic about the last four years at Rollins

Contributors:

Jenni Wu, Sarah Ledbetter, Son Ho, Meghan Wood, Yadhira Galdon, Tara DeVries, Sally Woods, David Ochsman, Caroline Christy, Yoselin Sanches, Artie Ahr, Denise Esperanca, Kim Stovall, anyone else Selena assaulted for ideas, and everyone who helped make these memories.

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