Things to do before graduation
Buy your outfit. ✓ 
Order your cap and gown. ✓
Make hotel reservations. ✓

Buy booze. ✓ 
Pack your apartment. ✓ 

Hang out with your friends before it’s over ✓ 
Mail out your announcements (subtext: send me money.) ✓ 
Get your final ‘SC souvenir gifts, because afterwards, they mean nothing. ✓ 
Tour the campus one last time. ✓ 
Eat at EVK one last time.
Do one last fountain run. ✓ 
Do one last Row run. ✓ 
Throw away month-old lettuce. ✓ 
Decide whether or not you’re going to keep all of those posters. ✓ 
Throw away your class notes. ✓ 
Visit the Health Center one last time before you have no insurance.
Stand on top of Seeley G. Mudd at Sunset.
Climb the bell tower of Bovard Auditorium.
Kiss Tommy Trojan on the cheek.
Get your obligatory “Tommy Trojan and you” photograph.
Make a Las Vegas run. ✓ 
Get in touch with high school friends to plan your 5-year reunion. ✓ 
Take your final exams. ✓ 
Buy bluebooks. ✓ 
Make a Tommy’s run.
Mock a Bruin.
Sell your books back to the University Bookstore (or Cash For Books). ✓ 
Play pool at Tommy’s Place one last time.
Have one last beer at Tradition’s. ✓
Tour the city one last time. ✓ 
Tune into Trojan Vision. ✓
Go into a campus building you’ve never been in. ✓
Memorize the five virtues of a Trojan. ✓
Visit the Alumni House (because it’s now your home).
Get your picture taken with Traveller.
Visit your freshman dorm room. ✓ 
Go to the 2-9 and the 9-0. ✓ 
Go to Chano’s.
Stroll through the rose garden reflectively. ✓ 
Walk through the Coliseum.
Know where your major is lining up before the ceremony. ✓ 
Appreciate the USC-shaped garden in Alumni park. ✓
Stand in the Doheny foyer. ✓
Spit off the top of VKC.
Sit on the stump in Founders’ Park.
Run into old friends. ✓ 
Read the plaques around campus.✓ 
Read the writing on the bathroom walls.
Attend a service at the university’s church.
Make a beer run. ✓ 
Let your roommates know you won’t be living with them next year. ✓
Pick flowers. ✓ 
Watch the ROTC squad put up the flag in the early morning hours. ✓ 
Shake the hands of all of the statues around campus.✓
Be happy. ✓
Be sad. ✓
Be anxious. ✓
Be reluctant. ✓
Be optimistic. ✓
Remember — you’ll have to tell your kids about this place some day. ✓
Reflect. ✓
Say goodbye. ✓
Don’t look back. (I’ll always look back!)
USC 2008 - 2012 :) \//
“I know way too many people here right now that I didn’t know last year
I swear it feels like the last few nights we’ve been everywhere and back
but I just can’t remember it all
I’m living life right now man
and this what I’m do ‘til it’s over”
- Drake
so my school is pretty cool.
“do I really have to graduate or can I stay here for the rest of my life?” - Asher Roth
east coast, beast coast
Winter Break 2011: ugly sweaters, ember affairs, DTLA rooftop new years, & vegas with the best friends I could ask for











