1. Tap savings to settle library fees.

2. Camp out on the Quad.

3. Write a description that makes last summer’s internship sound like a real job.

4. Remind yourself what the interior color of the fridge was when the school year started.

5. Play rock-paper-scissors with roommate to decide who cleans the fridge.

6. Measure your head. (For graduation cap fitting.)

7. Write pages 2-78 of thesis.

8. Verify school loan repayment schedule to determine decade in which home ownership will be possible.

9. Buy a suit.

10. Buy Stanford-embossed leather portfolio in which to put resumes and other important-looking documents.

11. Practice interview smile.

12. Find strategic location to park bike during last week of school to ensure it
will be stolen.

13. Return those dining hall trays.

14. Research graduate schools in case that movie star thing doesn’t work out.

15. Take MCATs. Again.

16. Stare in wonderment at how young the new admits look.

17. Strategize apartment search to avoid appearance that living at home remains an option.

18. Work on your tan.

19. Develop clever message for Commencement ceremony that includes the word “Mom.”

20. Tack letters from prospective employers to dorm’s Wall of Rejection.

21. Say thanks to the people who helped you.

22. Play one last game of 3-on-3 with your dorm buddies.

23. Resolve to reunite with drawmates in a different city every year.

24. Plan summer trip to Europe. For 2009.

25. Box up favorite textbooks; surely you’ll reference them often.

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