SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 | FEATURES | By By Lilly Asano and Anya Potsiadlo
Two years into our time at Colorado College, we’ve begun to collect core college memories and moments that are essential to the CC experience. Between leading New Student Orientation, giving tours, participating in countless intramural sports and always finding ways to keep ourselves entertained, we consider ourselves well-qualified to deliver a college bucket list.
- Attend Convocation as a freshman (or at one point before you graduate).
- Watch the sunset over Pikes Peak during a soccer game.
- Go cliff jumping (but probably not in Paradise Cove).
- Write for The Catalyst or get quoted in an article.
- Take a fitness class hosted by a student in the AFC.
- Fun Run!
- Crooz (Anya has been to every Crooz she’s been on campus for).
- Go hiking to see the aspens change colors.
- Spend a morning at the Old Colorado City Farmers Market (plan ahead! They close for the season in October).
- Get a highly coveted Drinks of the World ticket.
- Go to a free skate in Ed Robson Arena (highly recommended to go around Halloween and dress up in costume).
- Go to a Battle for the Gold Pan game (do not skip the line).
- Lime scooter downtown for a night out (safely.)
- Go to Sig Chi, Lax House, or Craig’s House completely sober.
- Sign up for a random Outdoor Education trip.
- Rot on the quad on a sunny day for at least three hours.
- Interfere with a campus tour (in a funny way).
- Go to 7-Eleven after midnight (bonus points if you can flirt your way into free stuff).
- Make a random sketchy Facebook Marketplace purchase (and please, take a friend).
- Go to Jack Quinn’s Monday night trivia, even if you aren’t good at trivia.
- Go to a CC band performance at Lulu’s Downtown.
- Attend a student film screening (preferably a 100-level course).
- Take a Half Block!
- Take the FUCC Bus hungover.
- Eat at Otto’s after a long ski day with friends.
- Go to Rastall’s after a darty and scan your senior friends in.
- People watch first dates at Dos Dos or White Pie.
- Go to a Mathias fourth floor pregame.
- Slide down the Preserve Hill in the snow.
- Throw a surprise birthday party for one of your friends.
- Go to a professional sports event in Denver, especially if your hometown team is playing.
- Try a volcano margarita at Jose Muldoon’s (and have a designated driver).
- Give Cowboys a second chance, even after your freshman year.
- Attend Tony’s Tuesday (once you’re 21… unless you want to add having your fake ID on the Tony’s ceiling to your bucket list).
- Go to Weber’s annual block party!
- “Princess Diaries” mattress slide down your Big Three staircase.
- Cry to the Housing Department or your Hub Advisor.
- Go to the Sand Dunes for Block Break.
- Do a beer half-marathon.
- Polar plunge in an alpine lake.
- Go to a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
- Climb the Manitou Incline.
- Summit a 14er.
- Drink with your professor (easier than you think).
- Meet up with everyone at CC with your name using Outlook.
- Summit Pikes Peak (any way you can––Car, Cog Train or on foot)
- Revisit your freshman year dorm as a senior (and bring the new resident a shot).
- Hunt the freshmen.
- Go to the Senior Champagne Celebration before your last First Day of Block 1.
- Attend Champagne Showers on your last day of class at CC.