The Daredevil Bucket List

Earlier this week, Harvard Student Agencies sent out a survey asking for students’ top three Harvard bucket list items, promising one lucky entrant $250 as a prize. With Black Friday right around the corner, that extra pocket change wouldn’t hurt. And since having sex in the stacks, peeing on the John Harvard statue, and doing Primal Scream are too cliché, we’ve come up with three alternative Harvard bucket list items. If you can cross these off your list, you’re the ultimate Harvard student. Or crazy person.

1. Skinny dip in the Charles during reading period

Skinny dipping in the Charles during the warm summer months is one thing. Skinny dipping in the dead of winter is a whole different animal. One-up Primal Scream—sure, there’s a chance you’ll get hypothermia, but just imagine the hilarious facial expressions of the rowers in the boathouse. In fact, if you publicize the event beforehand, you might be a bigger deal than the Head of the Charles.

2. Throw a rager in the Mass Hall dorms

Invite everyone in the College, even your proctor. Hire a professional DJ, get the beverages flowing, and turn Harvard into a "real" school for a night. Then ask University President Drew G. Faust to make a celebrity appearance, since her office is conveniently located right beneath the dorms. If you could pull off playing beer pong with Harvard’s president, it’d be massively epic.

3. Streak at Harvard-Yale

It’s a little late to check off our last bucket list item this year, but with national coverage and thousands of viewers, streaking at Harvard-Yale would be the supreme declaration of school pride. Since we’ll always undoubtedly crush Yale anyways, interrupting the Game won’t be too big of a deal. Like those Harvard spirit t-shirts, let’s show those bulldogs who’s really #wellendowed.