<p>This came up in discussion with a senior recently.
Thought I would repost these list links for current students. Of course these are one persons list (I think the undergrad one may have been a “committee”.) and the med school list assumes car access. </p>
<p>On Campus
¤ Do an all-day Ratty sit (from opening to close)
¤ Attend SexPowerGod
¤ Go to a (real) Naked Party.
¤ Attend a UCS meeting. Create change!
¤ Make an appointment to see Ruth Simmons. Do it for the red power suit.
¤ Get to the top of the Carrie bell tower.
¤ Stay overnight at the Rock
¤ Stay overnight at the SciLi. Get a group of people to go to the
scili right before it closes. Stagger your enterances. Rendevous on
one of the top floors, avoid cameras, and have a SciLi sleepover. Tell
scary stories, play drinking games involving oversized books.
¤ Do the SciLi Challenge. (One shot per floor of the SciLi from the top down)
¤ Stay up all night and eat at Loui’s when it opens at 5am.
¤ Go to a midnight showing of Improvidence.
¤ Attend a Brown play or musical.
¤ Take Engine 9.
¤ Take Neuro 1.
¤ Take City Politics (PS22).
¤ Take Russian Lit (RU133).
¤ Have sex on the 13th floor of the SciLi.
¤ Smoke up on the CIT balcony.
¤ Play the Sayles Organ.
¤ Get on the Roof of Wilson and Faunce.
¤ Sneak into the Keeney attic.
¤ Date a Freshman.
¤ Do Naked Donut Run.
¤ Get on stage during Dave Binder.
¤ Get food from the “Chinese Food Truck”.
¤ Touch the books bound in human leather at the John Hay Library.
¤ Make a waffle at the V-Dub.
¤ Explore the tunnels under Keeney.
¤ Visit every dorm, including the Co-Ops.
¤ Ride to the top of the SciLi and take a picture of Providence from
its highest point.
¤ Go to an a capella show during Parent’s Weekend.
¤ Attend the Gala.
¤ Skip class on the Friday afternoon of Spring Weekend to get wasted
at Spagfest.
¤ Figure out where the football stadium actually is.
¤ See the Brown band ice skate.
¤ Access the secret tunnels that run under Wriston between the Ratty
and the Frats.
¤ Attend a competition/game for every varsity sports team.
¤ Use a flagrantly fake ID to buy liquor at Spiritus.
¤ “The Ratty/Vdub Deluxe” - Eat 1 piece/scoop of EVERY item at a
particular meal.
¤ Meet Ruth Simmons.
¤ Learn how to play darts at the GCB.
¤ See Robby Roadsteamer perform with the Brown Standup Comics.
¤ Spend a day relaxing, reading, playing frisbee, whatever on the Main
Green once the weather gets warm!
¤ Go skinny dipping in Smith Swim Center afterhours.</p>
<p>Off Campus
¤ Watch Waterfire
¤ Float through water park (where water fires held) in an inner tube.
¤ Venture to the abandoned drawbridge by the Seekonk River.
¤ Watch a play at Trinity Rep.
¤ Go to Al Forno.
¤ Go the India Point Park.
¤ Talk to one of the Thayer Street Guys (saxophone guy, newspaper guy,
street vendors).
¤ Get a Tarot Card Reading.
¤ Go to Block Island.
¤ Take a ride on the East Bay Bike Path.
¤ Run/bike/skate through the Thayer Street Bus Tunnel.
¤ Take the glass elevator in the Biltmore.
¤ Go to a Pawtucket Redsox Game.
¤ Go to the Warwick Denny’s at 4am.
¤ Go to Miko’s Exoticwear.
¤ Walk to Massachusetts.
¤ Go to Newport Beach.
¤ Go to Brown’s space observatory.
¤ Go ice skating downtown.
¤ Get a Providence Public Library card. They have a good selection of
music and movies and it’s a way to walk downtown.
¤ Try Gallery Night Providence- the third Thursday of every month you
can ride the free “art busses” to different galleries/ art spots
around the city.
¤ Go to the Roger Williams Park Zoo. At Halloween they have a great
“Jack O’lantern Spectacular”
¤ Have dinner on Federal Hill, and when you’re done, take a walk, and
make sure to take note (better yet, take a picture!) of the giant
pineapples hanging at the end of Atwells Ave.
¤ Go to Pastiche, a bakery on Federal Hill.
¤ Watch a movie at the Cable Car during one of the nights when the
guitar player is performing before the movie starts
¤ Go to Loui’s at 5am.
¤ Take the Spike’s Challenge.
¤ Take a trip to Boston, New York, or Cape Cod.</p>
<p>RISD Activities
¤ Visit the RISD Art Museum.
¤ Take a class at RISD.
¤ Make friends with a RISD student.
¤ Actually enter a RISD building and see a studio.
¤ Venture across the river to visit the magnificent RISD library.
¤ Attend a RISD party (don’t forget to dress up or you’ll be out of place).</p>
<p>The List from the med school:
[Brown</a> Medicine Magazine - A magazine for alumni & friends of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University](<a href=“http://brownmedicinemagazine.org/view/article.php?cw=cGFnZTE0MTU9MSZlbnQxMzE1ND1QQUdFJmVudDk0PTE2MyZjbnRwYWdlMTMxNT0xJmlzczk0PTg=]Brown”>http://brownmedicinemagazine.org/view/article.php?cw=cGFnZTE0MTU9MSZlbnQxMzE1ND1QQUdFJmVudDk0PTE2MyZjbnRwYWdlMTMxNT0xJmlzczk0PTg=)</p>
<p>Damn you must be a pretty cool parent! <em>bumps blunt</em> :)</p>
<p>This might be fun for current students and alumni to weigh in on</p>
<p>The ones I actually did</p>
<p>On Campus
¤ Do an all-day Ratty sit (from opening to close)
¤ Attend SexPowerGod
¤ Stay overnight at the SciLi. - it went 24 hours during my time there (at least the basement, so while I did that, never was overnight in the stacks)
¤ Do the SciLi Challenge. (One shot per floor of the SciLi from the top down)
¤ Stay up all night and eat at Loui’s when it opens at 5am.
¤ Attend a Brown play or musical.
¤ Take Neuro 1.
¤ Get on the Roof of Wilson and Faunce.
¤ Sneak into the Keeney attic.
¤ Date a Freshman. (hooked up with one, we didn’t date though)
¤ Get food from the “Chinese Food Truck”.
¤ Touch the books bound in human leather at the John Hay Library.
¤ Make a waffle at the V-Dub.
¤ Explore the tunnels under Keeney.
¤ Go to an a capella show during Parent’s Weekend.
¤ Skip class on the Friday afternoon of Spring Weekend to get wasted
at Spagfest.
¤ Figure out where the football stadium actually is.
¤ See the Brown band ice skate.
¤ Access the secret tunnels that run under Wriston between the Ratty
and the Frats.
¤ Meet Ruth Simmons.
¤ Learn how to play darts at the GCB.
¤ See Robby Roadsteamer perform with the Brown Standup Comics.
¤ Spend a day relaxing, reading, playing frisbee, whatever on the Main
Green once the weather gets warm!</p>
<p>Off Campus
¤ Watch Waterfire
¤ Watch a play at Trinity Rep.
¤ Go to Al Forno.
¤ Go to India Point Park.
¤ Go to a Pawtucket Redsox Game.
¤ Go to Miko’s Exoticwear.
¤ Go to Newport Beach.
¤ Have dinner on Federal Hill, and when you’re done, take a walk, and
make sure to take note (better yet, take a picture!) of the giant
pineapples hanging at the end of Atwells Ave.
¤ Go to Pastiche, a bakery on Federal Hill. (never went but I ate stuff from there!)
¤ Go to Loui’s at 5am.
¤ Take a trip to Boston, New York</p>
<p>RISD Activities
¤ Make friends with a RISD student.
¤ Actually enter a RISD building and see a studio (dark room for me)
¤ Attend a RISD party (definitely felt like I was in a whole different world).</p>
<p>I actually thought it would be way less when I started. Some good stuff on the list, definitely some overrated stuff though too.</p>
<p>Staying up and going to Loui’s is really not special for many CS people…a couple of us started the tradition of going to Subway if we were up at 7 AM instead.</p>
<p>I’m doing a 5 am Loui’s in 4 hours. At the Rock now, will be here until I get kicked out and have to go to Sci Li.</p>
<p>The majority of those weren’t even an option when I went to Brown! I don’t think the libraries were open all night – although I did stay up all night playing the Trivia Contest, which doesn’t happen anymore.</p>
<p>Ones I’ve done in my lifetime:</p>
<p>On Campus
¤ Attend a Brown play or musical.
¤ Date a Freshman.
¤ Figure out where the football stadium actually is.
¤ See the Brown band ice skate.
¤ Meet Ruth Simmons.
¤ Learn how to play darts at the GCB. (Does playing PacMan there count?)
¤ Spend a day relaxing, reading, playing frisbee, whatever on the Main
Green once the weather gets warm!</p>
<p>Off Campus
¤ Watch Waterfire
¤ Watch a play at Trinity Rep.
¤ Go to Al Forno.
¤ Go the India Point Park.
¤ Go to Newport Beach.
¤ Have dinner on Federal Hill, and when you’re done, take a walk, and
make sure to take note (better yet, take a picture!) of the giant
pineapples hanging at the end of Atwells Ave.
¤ Watch a movie at the Cable Car
¤ Take a trip to Boston, New York, or Cape Cod.</p>
<p>RISD Activities
¤ Make friends with a RISD student.</p>
<p>hahahaha, love the pacman at the GCB comment</p>
<p>Obviously some things on that list are out of date/not available (Smith not there etc)
Disclaimer, those lists are not mine, and some of the things I’ve done at reunions, so might be considered cheating. </p>
<p>I’ve:
¤ Do an all-day Ratty sit (from opening to close) (I worked, not sat, from open to close. back then the non workers were kicked out between meals.)
¤ Stay overnight at the SciLi. (or at least open to close, it wasn’t open 24hrs back then.)
¤ Stay up all night and eat at Loui’s when it opens at 5am. (and the Silver Diner at 3 am for blueberry muffins.)
¤ Go to a midnight showing of Improvidence.
¤ Attend a Brown play or musical.
¤ Take Engine 9. (okay, I took ENG 6. and TA’d it. I think that counts. and my student took ENG 9.)
¤ Sneak into the Keeney attic.
¤ Date a Freshman. (although I don’t think it really counts, I was a freshman too.)
¤ Have sex on the 13th floor of the SciLi. Well, not the 13th floor, think it was the 9th.
¤ Explore the tunnels under Keeney. and Wriston, and regularly used the ones between Andrews and VW.
¤ Ride to the top of the SciLi and take a picture of Providence from
its highest point.
¤ Go to an a capella show during Parent’s Weekend.
¤ Figure out where the football stadium actually is.
¤ See the Brown band ice skate.
¤ Access the secret tunnels that run under Wriston between the Ratty
and the Frats.
¤ Meet Ruth Simmons.
¤ Learn how to play darts at the GCB.(and pacman)
¤ Spend a day relaxing, reading, playing frisbee, whatever on the Main
Green once the weather gets warm!
¤ Watch Waterfire
¤ Venture to the abandoned drawbridge by the Seekonk River.
¤ Watch a play at Trinity Rep.
¤ Go the India Point Park.
¤ Talk to one of the Thayer Street Guys (saxophone guy, newspaper guy,
street vendors).
¤ Go to Block Island.
¤ Walked through the Thayer Street Bus Tunnel.
¤ Take the glass elevator in the Biltmore.
¤ Go to Newport Beach.
¤ Go to the Roger Williams Park Zoo. (first time was as part of a bio class!)
¤ Have dinner on Federal Hill, and when you’re done, take a walk, and
make sure to take note (better yet, take a picture!) of the giant
pineapples hanging at the end of Atwells Ave.
¤ Watch a movie at the Cable Car during one of the nights when the
guitar player is performing before the movie starts
¤ Go to Loui’s at 5am.
¤ Take a trip to Boston, New York, or Cape Cod.(while I was an undergrad.)
¤ Visit the RISD Art Museum.
¤ Make friends with a RISD student.(actually don’t know if this one counts. It was a Brown student who belonged at RISD and transferred there.) </p>
<p>From the Med School article:
- Go back in time. Take in a movie at the Rustic Drive-In on Route 146.
- Stand under the heated vent outside the Biomed Center in winter, breathe deep, and contemplate the anatomy lab below.
- Visit the Anne S.K. Brown Collection of 6,000 miniature lead soldiers on the third floor of the John Hay Library.
- Recover childhood memories. Sled down the hill at Moses Brown School. (although there is a better sledding hill near Brown. But promised my student I wouldn’t give it away until after they graduate.)
- Give yourself a day of tranquility. Hop on the ferry to Block Island, with its lighthouses, bluffs, rolling roads, winding paths, and 17 miles of pristine beaches.
- Ride the waves at Narragansett Beach.
Some of these are redundant, of course. </p>
<p>I would also add:
*Broadcast on BRU (or other Brown radio) (I do miss the all night trivia contest. One of those things the internet killed.)
- dance a square dance or ballroom dance in Sayles hall.
- learn to make a pizza working at the Gate. (I learned to actually toss a crust.)
*Get to know a Brown union level worker to at least where you are on a first name basis both ways.
*Eat in one of the restaurants on Federal Hill, Cranston etc where you overhear, watch mob business being conducted (or at least imagine you do.)</p>
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<p>But the bread’s only good starting at 8am, as we’ve realized.</p>