Reliving Trips on Campus: A How-To Guide

By Emma Chiu and Margaret Jones | 9/22/16 10:27am

Week two is upon us, and you’re already so done with school. You wish you could go back to the simpler time of DOC First Year Trips, a time when it was socially acceptable to eat multiple blocks of Cabot cheese and not shower for five consecutive days. If you relate to this nostalgia on a spiritual level, Dartbeat has just what you need: your guide to reliving Trips on campus.

Sunrike all six floors of the stacks

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It’s a great way to start your day early, get a workout and enjoy an incredible view (read: a forest of books).

Invite 100 of your closest friends to sleep in Leverone with you

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What better way to recreate your first night in Hanover? #bonding

Bring your Trangia to Foco

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DIY breakfast. Just think of all the time you’ll save from not waiting in the omelet line!

After your meal, Yum Yum the Foco dish rack

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Photo by Emma Chiu

Don’t allow yourself to leave until it’s all gone.

Relive your Climb and Hike days by scaling the scaffolding of Baker Tower

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Everything can be a mountain when you think about it.

Go to the Farmer’s Market and ask for a sample of Canadian Groundfruit

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“What, you’ve never heard of it? And you claim to be local, smh.”

Seductively sing to strangers when they properly sort their waste

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“Reduce, reuse, recycle baby. *Uh huh* Compost is ~sexy~”

Raid a class

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Pretend to be a prospie looking for your lost pumpkin. Get a friend dressed in a pumpkin suit to dramatically reunite with you. End raid by performing unnecessary medical care on the prof.

Go to One Wheelock and eat packets of Robert Frost’s Ashes® FOR FREE

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Or, alternatively, take a pensive walk to the river and recite “The Road Not Taken” as you scatter cocoa powder into the Connecticut.

Go to the Lodge, pretend it’s the Lodj

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Photo by Emma Chiu

It’s so far that it will feel like you’re actually hiking The Fifty to Moosilauke! Be sure to arrive decked out in flair and proceed to knock on every door yelling at the residents that THERE’S NO MORE SOUP.

Refuse to let people on the Green without taking their shoes off

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Don’t they understand that the Leach Field could burst at any second?

Greet/bid farewell to everyone with the Lone Pine Salute

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The trend is catching on, people!

 

Staff member Margaret Jones contributed to this story.


Emma Chiu

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