100 Things To Do Before You Graduate!

10 - 24 September 2012

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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Welcome back to school you hooligans! I’m the Editor-in-Chief of The Wake this year and this is my first letter from the editor as such. In short, I can say whatever I want and no one has the authority to change it.

Instead of saying something political or religious that will alienate The Wake from all of you, I’m going to give you the low down on what you’re about to read.

First of all, it’s not actually something you have to “read” in the normal sense. There is no news in this issue, there are no paragraphs (besides in this letter), no conclusions - nothing that could remotely remind you of the homework already piling up. In this issue you will find everything you need to make your next one to six years here at the U of M not suck!

What we at The Wake have compiled here are 100 things you NEED to do before you graduate.

We’ve put together a list of the best things to do on campus, the best places to eat, the best places to go on a date, the best places to dance, the best concert venues, etc, and none of it is sponsored! The rest of The Wake staff (100% students) and I picked our favorite things. That’s it. No one paid for a spot. So you can trust us that every single one of the to-do items on this list is actually awesome.

Here’s what you have to do: pull apart the two long pieces of paper in this magazine with the list on them, tape them side-by-side on your wall, and start checking things off. Don’t just sit around in your dorm room or apart-ment playing N64, watching Netflix, and/or getting drunk like you always do. Get out into Minneapolis and do something with your however many years here. There’s so much time and so little to do!—strike that, reverse it.

If you do any of the items on our list, take pictures and either tweet them at us (@The_Wake) or post them on our Facebook page (facebook.com/The-WakeMagazine). We’ll gather them all and post them so you can see what other students are doing. Let’s see who can get all 100 done first.

alex lauerediTor-in-chief

10-24 september 201201

ON CAMPUS: Go to our dairy salesroom in St. Paul on Wednesdays from 3 - 5pm and buy crazy kinds of ice cream like Sweet Corn, Chocolate Cashew, and Minnesota Sundae. (Room 166, Andrew Boss Lab of Meat Science, 1354 Eckles Av-enue, St. Paul Campus)

Go to the roof of the Tate Lab of Physics and stargaze from their huge telescopes. (8pm on Fridays, room 450, also a good date option!)

Get on the roof of a school building. (Tate doesn’t count.)

Find a secret study space in the dark corners of the li-braries. They are larger than you think.

Go to a Gopher sporting event that is NOT football. Many are free/cheap/and have free food.

Go to random clubs’ first meetings and score free food. Not all have food, so check it out before you go. Maybe you’ll even end up joining!

Free food aside, JOIN A STUDENT GROUP. DO IT. There are a ridiculous number of student groups but not a ri-diculous number of students in them.

Attend one of the many free lectures and discussions around campus. Find these on the U of M website and specific college websites.

Support student art by going to a gallery show at Regis Center for Art.

Have a cup of coffee on the balcony in the Education Sci-ences building.

Step foot in every building on the Twin Cities campus.

Go dumpster diving when any given campus building is torn down and get random cool stuff.

Actually check out a book from one of the libraries, but seriously. Your teachers will thank you.

Find the ‘Gnome Tree’ and put something in it.

Tailgate a quidditch game. (Find game times at facebook.com/UMNquidditch)

Grab a free yellow conversation starter button and get peo-ple to talk to each other on campus. (z.umn.edu/ButtonUp)

Have coffee with a teacher. They each have a wealth of knowledge that they want you to ask them about. They’ll blow your mind.

Tour the Weisman Art Museum. You pass it every day, but take time to actually go in it.

Go secret sledding on the giant hill behind Coffman. Don’t fly into the river.

Build a huge snowman on the mall.

Create a chalk drawing on the mall of anything you can think of. That doesn’t have to be just for student groups.

Go to the Holi festival during Spring Jam. Who doesn’t want to throw colored powder all over your friends AND random people?

ARTSNSTUFF: Get a multiple movie pass at MSPIFF at St. Anthony Main Theatre and catch a bunch of independent films before everyone else. (April 12-28th, 2013)

Walk across the bridge from Loring Park to the Walker Sculpture Garden and read the poem.

Go to St. Anthony Main Theatre on discount Tuesday where movies are just $5 and the picturesque view of the city right outside is FREE. Or just go any day because students get $6 movies ever day.

Roam the sometimes incredible, sometimes incredibly weird galleries at the Walker Art Center for free Thurs-day nights from 5pm until 9pm. Appreciate it, mock it, we’re cool with either.

Don’t let our local record stores go out of business! Shop for all your music needs at Electric Fetus, Treehouse Re-cords, or Hymie’s.

Rush a touring Broadway show at the Pantages or Or-pheum downtown. Go to HennepinTheatreTrust.org/Broadway to see the shows coming here this year.

alex lauer

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Celebrate May Day with In The Heart of The Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s MayDay parade and festival in south Minneapolis, ending at Powderhorn Park.

Take a tour of Minneapolis murals, best done by bike. They’re everywhere, so either look up some locations online or just bike around and find them on your own. (Check out artists Broken Crow to get started.)

#1 BIKE CITY: Get a bike. Craigslist is your best bet for a cheap, legit ride, but bike shops around town like the Hub Bike Co-op and Varsity Bike Shop are also super helpful.

Dress up and ride in one of the many group bike rides and parades. (ie. Freedom From Pants, Tour de Fat, Tweed Ride, etc.)

Bike to Stillwater. (35 miles on Gateway trail)

Explore the Midtown Greenway. Have the ZAP program slap a sensor on your bike so you can get free stuff for riding your bike to class. They give away movie tickets, gift cards, bike gear, and other amaz-ing prizes for biking to campus at least 8 times a month.

Wanna increase access to bikes for all? Volunteer at Spokes center or The Greasepit in Phillips.

Go Dr. Frankenstein on your bike and transform it into an art bike, tall bike, or monster bike.

DATE NIGHT: Stroll across the Stone Arch Bridge late at night.

Take the Guthrie’s elevator up to the Dowling Studio Lobby (the top floor). The signature yellow room is usu-ally vacant late at night and has some of the best views of the city you’ll find. (Open 8am - 8pm Monday and 8am - 11pm Tuesday to Sunday)

Get two cones or one giant cone of the best ice cream in Minneapolis (debatable) at Sebastian Joe’s.

Movie nights are the go-to date, and there is no movie theater in town quite like the two-story Uptown Theatre. Catch an independent, foreign, or limited-release film at the theater which is opening September 14th after being completely renovated. Keep it chill with game night at the Chatterbox Pub, a restaurant/bar where you can order board games to your table or play an insane amount of vintage Atari, Sega, and Nintendo games.

Ice skate at the Depot downtown, or any park rink. Plus side of the Depot: ice skates for rent, frequently buffered ice, beautiful space, it’s warm, hot chocolate right next door at Dunn Bros. Plus side of a park rink: free, hot chocolate in a thermos (oh-my-cute), you’ll have to cuddle for warmth, free.

Sip the best chai tea in Minneapolis under sexy mood lighting at Uncommon Grounds in Uptown, a victorian house turned coffee shop.

FOOOOOOD: Munch on the most delicious handmade donuts in the city at The Donut Cooperative before class. Flavor ex-amples: vanilla with sprinkles, buttermilk cider, and but-terscotch salted potato chip. Drool.

Get a Jucy Lucy [not a typo], the signature Minneapolis burger, at Matt’s Bar. The restaurant is unassuming, but the burgers will change your world.

Grease up the arteries at The Wienery on West Bank, just three blocks from campus.

Eat off one of the many food trucks around the city like Chef Shack, The Anchor Fish & Chips, and Hola Arepa. You can find them downtown during lunch time and at many outdoor events.

Try every flavor of Mesa Pizza. Grab a menu and start checking them off.

Eat the best seafood in town at the Sea Salt Eatery, lo-cated right next to Minnehaha Falls. (Only open April through October!)

Visit the jam-packed Midtown Global Market and try something rare.

Sambusas at the Afro-Deli. Trust us.

Hang out with hipsters and hoodrats at Taco Taxi on East Lake Street.

alex lauer

10-24 september 201203

HUNGRY AT LATE NIGHT? Hard Times Cafe: head over to their cash-only West Bank location for a frick ton of vegetarian or vegan food for cheap. Open 6am to 4am every day.

The Uptown Diner: open all night Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for your post-dancing/party/concert eats.

Pizza Luce: some of the best pizza options for regular eaters, vegetarians, and vegans if you get sick of Mesa.

GET OFF CAMPUS ALREADY: Take the light rail to the Mall of America.

Get a day pass for Nickelodeon Universe. It’s worth the $30 if you go all day, but you can get discounted passes from U of M’s Student Unions & Activities info desks. And no, you’re definitely not too cool for it.

Interact with the other colleges in the area through events like Augsburg’s spring music fest and McNally Smith’s open mics and performances).

Take a free tour of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

Enter the realm of kings, queens, knights, dragons, and a bunch of nerds dressed in ridiculous (but fantastic) cos-tumes. Get a group of your friends all the way to Shako-pee for the Minnesota Renaissance Festival (which runs Saturdays and Sundays now until September 30th).

Buy fresh, local produce from the Minneapolis Farmers Market at 312 East Lyndale Ave North, or just get a giant cin-namon roll or brat topped with peppers and onions and walk around. (Open every day, April-December 6am to 1pm.)

See the Minneapolis skyline from as many sides as possible. Start with 5.

Watch the magical Holidazzle Parade on Nicollet Mall and check out the Christmas display in Macy’s.

Support our Minnesota drive-in theaters so they don’t become extinct! Catch a double feature at the Cottage View Drive-In or a triple at the Vali-Hi Drive-In. Bring plenty of blankets, food, and friends that want to stay out all night.

Watch a bone-crunching bout of roller derby. We’ve got two hometown teams: The Minnesota RollerGirls and the North Star Roller Girls.

Freeze your butt off at the St. Paul Winter Carnival which features dogsled races, giant snow sculptures and ice sculptures, multiple parades, and the iconic ice palace, among other things.

Tara Mrachek

Before You Graduate

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JUST GOTTA DANCE:Salsa dance on Tuesday nights at Famous Dave’s in Up-town. It sounds like a weird place for salsa dancing, but it’s the perfect atmosphere for total beginners and for all of you who know a turn or two.

Skip the scummy bars and clubs in favor of First Av-enue’s Too Much Love, the weekly, 18+, Saturday night dance party that is only $1 with student ID.

If you’re not into the whole bump-n-grind “dancing” that most clubs offer, groove to songs by The Smiths, New Or-der, The Cure, and more at Transmission, Clubhouse Jag-er’s Wednesday night party. It’s all about new wave, in-die rock, British pop, mod, punk, post-punk, synth-pop, electro, guilty pleasures, and everything in between.

Take a class in anything from modern to tap to house to breakdancing at Zenon Dance School downtown. If you’ve never danced before, it’s the perfect starting point.

Learn to dance like they do in the movies at the U of M’s own Ballroom Dance Club. They teach everything you’ve ever wanted to know, from tango to swing. (https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/bdc/)

OUTDOORSY:Spend a day looking at giraffes and tigers and polar bears FOR FREE at Como Zoo.

Go to Minnehaha Falls in the winter and walk behind the frozen water fall.

Camp out for a night at White Sand beach on the Mississippi.

Kayak through the Chain of Lakes on a particularly nice day.

Float down the Apple River on inner tubes.

Pick apples from one of the many pick-your-own-apples orchards around the Twin Cities, then bake a pie or ap-ple crisp with them. Preferably find an orchard that has pumpkins, hay rides, apple cider, and an orchard that isn’t patrolled so you can eat while picking apples.

SUMMER IN THE CITY:Spend the summer in Minneapolis. We have a limited amount of it, so Minnesotans know how to take advan-tage of the warm months.

Cheer on the St. Paul Saints, our other baseball team, for a fraction of the price and equal amounts of fun as the Twins.

Stay up all night at Northern Spark, Minneapolis’ nuit blanche art festival. It’s an explosion of weird installa-tions and interactive art all over Minneapolis that lasts from sunset to sunrise in early June.

Go to a music and movie event at a Minneapolis park (www.mplsmusicandmovies.com).

Eat a butt-ton of food, see animals being born, and go on some rides that definitely don’t look safe at the great end-of-summer get-together: The Minnesota State Fair.

Catch some of the best local bands, eat off a food truck, and just chill out at one of the many summer block parties (ie. Bastille Day, Red Stag, Memory Lanes).

Clean all your fancy clothes and get tickets for the Mill City Summer Opera, a fast-selling, limited-engagement opera held in the open-air Mill City Museum Courtyard. (www.millcitysummeropera.org)

Swim at Lake Calhoun.

Look out on a rare view of the Twin Cities from the Witch’s Hat Tower in Prospect Park. It’s only open ONE DAY every year, so head on over for the tower viewing/ice cream social on the first Friday evening after Memo-rial Day Weekend.

THE SCENE:Check out Minneapolis’ up-and-coming bands for free at the Kitty Cat Klub on weeknights. (21+ venue)

See an off-the-radar show at The Cedar Cultural Center on West Bank, an all ages, mostly volunteer-run venue.

Jump on stage at a Triple Rock show. (The stage is only a couple feet off the ground.)

Find a new favorite band in the local scene. Chances are that will turn into multiple, because everyone in a Min-neapolis band is also in another band. (A few staff picks: Zoo Animal, The Tribe & Big Cats!, Teenage Moods, Au-dio Perm, and France Camp.)

Go to a house show, but good luck finding one! Club MedXxX in Cedar-Riverside is a good first bet.

See a show at the First Ave Mainroom. You have to. Just do it.

Old School TC Dive Bar with young punx = The Hexagon Bar in Seward.

Go to Hell, it has all the good bands. Hell’s Kitchen Under-ground downtown: music + cheap late-night eats!

THE WACKNESS:Visit the Raptor Center on the St. Paul Campus to see a variety of hawks, falcons, owls, and even a few Bald Ea-gles. There are free tours Tuesday to Sunday, and a $5 program where you can also meet many of the raptors on Saturdays and Sundays.

Bounce around like you’re in middle school again at Skyzone Indoor Trampoline Park.

Catch a game of bike polo at Corcoran park. You have to see it to believe it. Follow @pickuppolo on Twitter for game times.

Dress up as your favorite character for a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the La-goon or the Uptown Theatre on the last Saturday of the month (check their websites for what theater it’s play-ing at).

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