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Me: Hi, I’m just letting you know that my parents are staying here one more day, so I’m gonna stay with them in their hotel tonight.
The prompt for this article feels so on the nose for me, as I have had a page on my notes app this semester of all my items to complete before senior year comes to an end. The list was dominated by restaurants, cafes and bakeries I somehow never made it to in the past three and a half years, possibly because I didn’t want to spend the extra money or take a shuttle. However, I’m now realizing that missing out on these Baltimore staples is scarier than losing five dollars on a pastry. When this realization hit, I momentarily freaked out. A whole bucket list to get done in a handful of weeks? After I took a step back, I recognized that the list is supposed to be fun, and that’s all I can really ask for with the dwindling moments left in college. So, here are some ideas I have completed, written down and never got to or heard recommended by others and think could be awesome to help you set up the best senior year ever.
If you had asked me four years ago what my college experience would look like, I never would have imagined 4:30 a.m. wake-ups, jumping out of planes or leading a battalion of 60 people before turning 22. I entered the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) with an open mind and little military background. Within weeks, I realized it was only about 10% tactics and 90% everything else — leadership, interpersonal skills, discipline, organization, public speaking and more.
Let’s start at the beginning.
In celebration of the Hopkins Sesquicentennial Celebration, here are 150 things you should do before you graduate!
When I think about the student organization I am most grateful I joined at Hopkins, I immediately think of Hopkins Sport Taekwondo (HST). I joined during my junior year because I wanted to be part of a sports club that was active, fun and rooted in a genuine community. What I found was much more than a club. I found a family.
From Thursday, April 23 to Saturday, April 25, the Hopkins Organization for Programming (HOP) hosted its annual Spring Fair. In addition to the Spring Fair’s headlining concert featuring the rapper Gunna, students participated in a vast array of events organized by the HOP over the course of the fair.
The 2026 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft was filled with unpredictability. Unlike the prior 2 years where the first pick was practically set in stone (Paige Bueckers in 2025 and Caitlin Clark in 2024), this year was different. This year’s class brought in much talent, but not one unanimous first pick. ESPN predicted Olivia Miles going first, followed by Azzi Fudd and Awa Fam; CBS had Azzi Fudd going first, while other outlets predicted Awa Fam as the first pick of the draft.
“Aren’t we the song that we sing?” asks Reverend Shaw, the main antagonist of Footloose, whose authority the younger, freedom-loving characters rebel against over the course of a two-hour musical. What are the songs we’re singing? What kind of songs are the right songs to sing — and to be? On April 18, we, the News-Letter writers (Estelle Chen and Kaylee Nguyen), stepped in to find answers to these questions with the University’s very own Barnstormers’ production of Footloose!
A drone flies over a field of crops, capturing green and brown swaths of land. When you examine the pictures more closely, you notice that portions of the soil are covered in a dusting of chalky white powder. Nope, it isn’t fungi; it’s actually crushed limestone that's been spread to facilitate natural carbon capture. This was one of several pioneering solutions Brad Marston, a professor of physics at Brown University, touched upon during his lecture, ‘Can Physics Stop Climate Change?’, organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy on Thursday, April 23rd, 2026.
A few friends and I have been carrying on the same open conversation for a few months now about what makes art. It is a very important question for a bunch of students at Peabody, where I am studying vocal performance. To be frank, the thing we’re discussing at this point isn’t simply “What makes art?” We dance around that question as we talk about the things that are happening in our lives, like lessons, concerts, competitions, rehearsals and even practice sessions, but our conversation always comes back to art, its purpose and our place as artists.
5-Down: Eponymous card game exclamation
On April 4, 2026 the Shakti dance team won first place at the 2026 Origins National Dance Competition in Trenton, New Jersey. This marked the team’s second consecutive national title, as it had also won the 2025 competition in Chicago.
April 18 was Record Store Day, an annual tradition intended to promote brick-and-mortar music businesses around the world. As legend had it, in 2008, a group of record store owners in a hotel basement in Fells Point first conceived the idea in a meeting. By the late 2000s, vinyl was in rough shape; the invention of smaller, cheaper and more accessible compact discs made the large, bulky record no longer viable.
Imagine the delicious smell of a family’s favorite home-cooked recipe passed down through the generations. Perceiving and enjoying that smell is made possible by olfactory neurons in the nose, which detect odors and send electrical signals to the brain. The olfactory system is essential for most animals: it supports postnatal survival, detects environmental hazards and mediates emotional, social and nutritional behaviors. It is also one of two systems in the body that can recognize a functionally unlimited number of unknowns, the other being the immune system.
The day is finally here! After a painful couple of months without football, some excitement is finally upon us: Draft Day. While there may not be as many crazy trade up/down scenarios as in Kevin Costner’s (incredible) movie of the same name, there will inevitably be some unexpected picks that leave fans with their jaws on their floor. While predicting all 32 first round picks perfectly is virtually impossible, I like to have a bit of fun projecting some possible fits for each team and player, and hopefully I’ll get a few correct along the way!
8-Across: With 1-Down, incoming newspaper leader
1-Across: Evidence for a theorem
4-Across: Selling point?
The year is winding down, midterms are nearly over and that elusive handful of truly spring weather weeks in Maryland is peeking through the clouds. The allure of the sun and the Beach nearly manages to distract from the looming threat of finals, but in spite of future stress, perhaps we can pre-game our end-of-the-semester celebration a little earlier with these forthcoming selections.