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Kai Allen
Build a tree house. Hang up a tire swing from a tree. Or at least climb a tree, damn it all! When did we decide to be so earth-bound?











Berit Anderson
Turn on music when you wake up--music that makes you feel particularly alive, sing along at the top of your lungs and dance around in your underwear, or lack thereof. Then make blueberry pancakes with real maple syrup and invite friends over for breakfast. Sunny mornings are best.



















Donny Baarns
Befriend someone unpopular and wrestle a wild ferret. Not necessarily in that order.












Yennaedo Balloo
Write a story about something or someone that's been on your mind or really been bothering you lately; the best writing comes from that which actually matters to you, the good and the bad.











Sasha Becerra
Appreciate your surroundings! Sometimes we can get really caught up in theory, papers, and partying, but there are other facets of life that are worth pondering. Take a moment to really evaluate where you are, why you're here and what you might hope to do once you're no longer an undergrad. Take the time to just absorb everything around you. Oxy's campus is beautiful and there's plenty of nature to take in. If Oxy is too much of a ritual for you, go take a hike, go to the Huntington Library, go to the Griffith Park Observatory. There is so much your surroundings have to offer, it's just a matter of appreciating and enjoying them.





Shannon Docherty
Skydive, work in a garden, skinny dip in the ocean, and spend a day with friends in silence. I encourage you to go to New Orleans and talk to local residents about their experience post-Katrina. I urge you stay engaged in the world: its people, its problems, and its beauty.













Jess Harris & Maddie Knaup
Expand your comfort zone. Don't just jump outside of it; do something unexpected somewhere unknown and your comfort zone will grow.














Laura Hebert
Go whitewater rafting on the Zambezi! Work as a jillaroo in Australia! Ponder life's questions while gazing at the Taj Mahal! Pick up a map to a place you have never been before, strap on your backpack, and head off for a bit of an adventure.


















Riley Hooper
Climb a tree!












Emily Jensen
Adorn yourself. Your body is your canvas, the vessel in which you experience life; it is the one place you are entirely free to express yourself. Whether you've always dreamed of having an intricate tattoo across your back or a lip ring, a wild haircut, whatever - life is just short enough that decorating yourself freely is worth the risk of what other people will think, or what you will think in a few decades. Even when your stomach tattoo is faded and sagging into your turquoise elastic-waist pants, the disapproval of your frumpy 70-year-old self is no excuse not to live it up while you're still young and foolish.








Ally Jurkovich
Be naked.











Brit Karp
Make someone's day - write someone a card, or give someone a kick ass compliment or do someone a really big favor. I know when someone does something to remind me how great I am I feel good for like a week and it's so easy! So do it!












Liz Kramer
Thank your mother for giving birth to you.





















Karina Lyons
Laugh everyday, even if you just have to laugh at yourself.


















Molly McLaughlin
Bake a cake from scratch-YUM!























Katie Sandoval
Go up to Mt. Wilson and appreciate a hike through the wilderness.


























Ciarra Schmidt
Do whatever you fear most. Do it today and you will no longer fear it tomorrow.


















Lara Spade
Be alone in a public place where you would normally be with other people. Maybe that place is a coffee shop or a walk outside, but I find that I spend so much time around other people (or on the phone with other people) that it can be kind of unnerving to be sitting alone in a public place when there are other people whom I don't know around me. In my life there is so much pressure to "look busy" that I have to really make an effort to ignore my cell phone/ipod and sit.










Larry Tramutola
Volunteer part time or full time for the candidate of your choice as our country approaches a historic presidential election.

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