Editorial

Top 25 Things a Student must do at Northeast
Beacon Staff

When Esquire magazine sat down and figured out the 75 things that a man must do before he dies, the article got The Beacon staff to wondering…What a Northeast student must do before he or she graduates from NEMCC?

 

Here is the list that The Beacon staff thought would be appropriate for Northeast students to consider doing during their time at the two-year college.

 

Christopher Schager tops our list of the Top 25 Things a Student must do at Northeast.

 

The answers varied as the staff compiled a list of over 30 activities and had to cut it down to the Top 25 things.

 

Ranking the list was a hard task considering people’s taste varies from person to person.

 

By no means does this list encompass everything that Northeast has to offer which is why the last thing on the list is for readers to sit down and make their own so-called Northeast Bucket list.

 

  1. Take a class taught by Christopher Schager
  2. Live in the dorms at least one semester. It is an experience.
  3. Apply for graduation and know the deadlines to for graduation. Deadlines happen in the early fall and early spring of each semester.
  4. Go to class. It might be beneficial to know this stuff someday.
  5. Read the Beacon online at http://www2.nemcc.edu/Beacon
  6. Pick up a game of basketball, workout or spend time in Burgess Activity Center
  7. Join an intramural sports team. Northeast currently offers softball, tennis, flag football, basketball and many other sports.
  8. Attend a function hosted by the Baptist Student Union
  9. Buy Phi Theta Kappa Cheese.
  10. Spend time at Dodge’s Chicken Store and partake in their chicken on a stick
  11. Vote in a Student Government Election. Elections are held on the NEMCC website at http://www.nemcc.edu and students will need to know their Student ID numbers.
  12. Eat in the Haney Union. Where else in Booneville can you get all-you-can-eat for $4.50?
  13. Fly Kites on the “Showband from Tigerland” practice field behind Mississippi Hall. Wait until the band is off the field to do this.
  14. Follow the “Showband from Tigerland” to a Christmas parade. During the 2008 season, the Northeast Band will be at seven of the local Christmas parades.
  15. Play a game of pool or ping-pong in the Game Room
  16. Check out and return a book from the Eula Dees Memorial Library. Extra points if the book is read.
  17. Spend time at the GayeRodenCarrAquaticCenter. Northeast boasts an Olympic sized swimming pool.
  18. Tailgate for a Northeast football game. This is coming back in fashion.
  19. Spend a Thursday night the BoonevilleMiddle School observatory. Booneville is proud to have one of the most powerful telescopes in the state of Mississippi.
  20. Go to a play. Extra points if no teacher offers extra credit and it is done on the own free will.
  21. Attend See U at the Pole. That means getting up at 7 a.m.
  22. Play Tennis in your own time and send one tennis ball into the Gaye Roden Carr pool
  23. Study for a class or spend time observing nature at the Alumni Pavilion
  24. Attend the Dixie Marching Band Festival hosted by the “Showband from Tigerband”
  25. Make your own list of 25 things to do at Northeast Mississippi Community College before graduating.