Achievements
chigaijin @ UCB
Classes
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Overachiever: take an upper-division course during your first year (EA105 — great class)
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(Under)Graduate: take at least one graduate-level course as an undergraduate (CS264; technically History 200X)
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Pass / No Pass: take a class P/NP or P/F
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Pass / Pass: skip a final because you’re going to pass anyway
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Oops: sleep through a final
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Dedicated Student: complete four years without skipping class except for illness or injury
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Devoted Student: complete four years without skipping class, period
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Lazy Student: attend less than half of the lectures of a class you still passed
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“Sick”: skipped class to play a game, attend a concert, etc.
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Triage: skipped class to work on something for a student group, for work, or for another class
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Trilingual: complete a year of classes for two different languages (Mandarin and Japanese) ← this does not actually make me trilingual
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PNH: pass a class taught by Paul Hilfinger (CS164)
Academic Administration
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Cap and Gown: graduate
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Minor Achievement: complete a minor (Linguistics)
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Dual Degrees: complete a double major (off by about a semester)
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Triple Trial: complete a triple major
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No Cat Videos: complete a quadruple major
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Exploration: change your major or intended major at least twice (I’ve been CS all four years)
Berkeley Experience
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Take an Interest: spend at least twenty minutes talking to a street person (I meant to)
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These Colors Don’t—oh wait: accidentally dye your white clothes doing laundry
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Apparently It’s Just “Glockenspiel” In German: play the carillon (campanile bells)
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Small Fish: attend your college’s general commencement (everyone else will get this besides L&S…)
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Didn’t Need to See That: participate in the pre-finals “naked run” through the libraries
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Superb Show: attend a Sproul concert (most of which Superb runs)
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Superb Movie: attend a free movie screening (most of which Superb runs)
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For the Children: do volunteer work with children for at least a month
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Hail to California: get hailed on
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Uh, Professor: correct a professor (in or out of class) (people who’ve been in classes with me know I’ve done this in probably every class I’ve taken)
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Apprentice Printer: learn how to use a printing (hand)press (History 200X)
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Free Speech Movement: participate in a protest
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Flash Games: participate in a flash mob (Sproul Plaza freeze, twice!)
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The Most Hated People On Campus: flyer on Sproul Plaza
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Sandwich Board: attach an advertisement to yourself or your backpack for an entire day (chorale shows, TR shows)
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Special Delivery!: deliver grams of any kind (UCCE valentine grams)
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Double-Booked: get kicked out of a room you had booked or kick someone out of a room you had booked
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Triple-Booked: get kicked out of a room after kicking someone else out or get kicked out of a room, and the people who you kicked you out get kicked out
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When You Left, I Was But The Learner: be a judge or facilitator for a high school competition, like Speeh & Debate or Model UN
Academic Extracurriculars
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Infosessions: join HKN, UPE, IEEE, or TBP
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cowsay: join the CSUA
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Research Complete: work on a research project with a professor or grad student
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(U)GSI: become a TA
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Teach Me How To Dougie: TA for the same class four semesters in a row
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Outstanding GSI Award: receive the Outstanding GSI Award!
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Substitute Teacher: give a lecture filling in for the professor (not just a presentation)
Locations
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How Do You Pronounce It Anyway?: visit the top of the campanile
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C Isn’t Actually For “Christine”: visit the Big C
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Now You’re A Man: take the manly route up to the Big C
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Fire It Up: hike on the Fire Trail
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You Just Need To Be A Little Boulder: visit Indian Rock
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Jump the Creek: jump across Strawberry Creek to get to/from class
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Skywalker: cross the bridge between Cory and Sutardja Dai. (Face it, the one between LeConte and Birge is much less cool.)
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Soda Can: visit all seven floors of Soda Hall (missing floor 1)
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Most Confusing Building On Campus: find the hidden coffeeshop in Dwinelle (is it even still there?)
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Steampunk: explore the forbidden steam tunnels (they’re alarmed, guys…)
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Like Being a Kid Again: ride the giant slide in Codornices park
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“Rapid Transit”: ride BART
Lodging
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Default Housing: live in the dorms for a year
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Reluctant: stay in the dorms for two consecutive years
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Comfort Zone: live in the dorms all four years
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Discipline: get written up while living in the dorms
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Locally International: live at International House
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Greek Life: live at a fraternity or sorority house
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All for One: live in a co-op (coop? coöp?)
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2 Lazy 2 Move: stay in the same apartment for two consecutive years
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Out of Town: commute from home for at least one semester
Food
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Cheeseboard: eat Cheeseboard pizza
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Ici: eat Ici ice cream
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Thai Temple: eat at Wat Mongkolratanaram (Sunday brunches)
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Sumo Grub: eat at Sumo Grub
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Sufficient Grounds: eat at Sufficient Grounds (now closed)
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Chez Panisse: eat at Chez Panisse
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Fentons Challenge: complete the Fentons Challenge
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Bowl: shop at Berkeley Bowl
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“Dependably Mediocre”: eat at all four dining commons (Foothill, Clark Kerr, Crossroads, and Cafe 3)
Relationships
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Long Time No See: find someone you haven’t seen since elementary school
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Wedding Dress: someone else asks your crush out before you do
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Biological Imperative: get a girlfriend/boyfriend
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Anniversary: stay with a girlfriend/boyfriend for a year
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Wrong For Each Other: break up with a girlfriend/boyfriend
Time and Space
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Soda Pop: spend the night in Soda Hall (CS164)
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Dwin-hell: spend the night in Dwinelle Hall (they kick you out now)
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Closing Time: get kicked out of a building when it closes (libraries, Dwinelle)
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Jack Bauer: pull a true all-nighter for school or work (24 hours awake)
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Santa Monica Boulevard: stay at a party until dawn
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All Natural: complete four years at Berkeley without a single energy drink
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Benny Hill: enter one building, leave another (Etcheverry/Soda, Doe/Moffitt, Pimentel/Latimer)
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Can UC Me?: visit a friend at any other UC (I did visit Stephanie at UOP, though)
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International: study abroad (tourism doesn’t count…but if you’re from outside the US you get this just by studying at Berkeley)
Sports
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Pac-10: attend a football game in Memorial Stadium
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Tightwad: watch a football game from Tightwad Hill
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Also Pac-10: attend an inter-collegiate game other than football
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Cal Spirit: attend every football game in a semester
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Just For Fun: join an intramural sports team
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True Cal Spirit: join the Rally Committee
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College Brochure: play frisbee on Memorial Glade
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College Brochure Closeup: play frisbee on Memorial Glade with at least two women and two men, where everyone has a different ethnicity, and everyone is wearing a different color shirt. Or a Cal shirt.
San Francisco
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Exploratorium: visit the Exploratorium
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Free Chocolate: visit Ghirardelli Square
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Not Quite Broadway: go to a theater show (made it to several!)
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Rich Skates: go ice skating at the Embarcadero ice rink
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All I Want For Christmas: go ice skating at the Union Square ice rink
Nightlife
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Sleepover: sleep at someone else’s place (besides a girlfriend/boyfriend)
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GRSSK: visit a fraternity or sorority house
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Yeah, Brah!: go to a fraternity or sorority party
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Initiation: join a fraternity or sorority
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Fake ID: get into an over-18 or over-21 venue before you’re the right age
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Nightlife: go to a bar or nightclub (not just to eat)
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My Liver Hates Me: throw up after drinking too much (cause I don’t drink at all)
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Only Technically Illegal: get high on marijuana
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Druggie: cocaine, LSD, etc.
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Brawl: get in a fight (it was close one night, though)
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Good Friend: get someone home who’s not sober
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Hackathon: participate in an overnight coding contest
Creativity
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NaNoWriMo Winner: write a 50,000 word story in a month (2007 and 2008!)
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Artistic License: write something every day for a month (twice!)
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Johann: write an original song
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Mash It Up: make an original mashup (up to six)
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Cover Me: make a song cover or parody (“Math 1B”, “To Evaluate”, “The Tower” (with UC Chorales Auxiliary), “Let Go”, and, uh, “I’m Gary Oak”. Plus a lot that are just lyrics and not actually recorded.)
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Prime Director: make a movie (Door Open, “Math 1B”, Windup, “In the Creases”, “Let Go” (kinda), “Time”)
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“Published Author”: get a story published online (…even if I helped run the magazine…)
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Starving Musician: buy a new instrument (I wanted a glockenspiel)
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It Just Takes Practice: learn to play a new instrument
Performance
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Cultured: attend a culture show
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Actually Cultured: perform in a culture show
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With Their Mouths: attend an a cappella show
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Audience Member: attend any theater performance with students
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Traveling Show: attend any on-campus theater performance without students
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Devoted Fan: attend concerts for the same (off-campus) artist at least three times (Vienna Teng, of course)
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On Stage: join any performance group on campus
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Octaves: join one of the small a cappella groups (closest I came was the Chorales Auxiliary and Musical Improv)
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Triple Threat: join three of the small a cappella groups (Stacy…)
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Blow the Pitch: start a small a cappella group (Lily…)
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Center Stage: get chosen for a solo or lead role (UCMC’s “Officer Krupke”, TR’s From Rejection to Inception)
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The Space Where Singers Perform Space: sing in front of Sather Gate (UCMC, TR’s The Honeymooners)
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The Playhouse: perform in Zellerbach playhouse!
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ICCA(ssistant): volunteer at ICCA four years in a role (missed last year because of Avenue Q…at least I still saw the show. But all three years I was host for UCSC’s Cloud 9!)
UCCE
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Do-Mi-So: four consecutive semesters in the UC Chorales
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UCCE Love: stay in UCCE for four years
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Jehanne!: perform Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light
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Jingle Keys: go caroling in the city with UCCE
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Hark How the Bells: go caroling in the city with UCCE for four consecutive years
Campus MovieFest
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CMF(an): attend four Campus MovieFest showings
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One Week: participate in CMF
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CMF(inalist): be one of the sixteen CMF finalists (Patricia! Joy!)
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Regionals: advance to the next round in CMF (Huy!)
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CMF(irst place): win CMF
Theatre Rice
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Big Circle: four consecutive semesters in Theatre Rice (Fa09-Sp11)
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Closing Circle: eight consecutive semesters in Theatre Rice
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Summer of Rice: perform in Summer of Rice
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Tech and Transitions: perform in a GM troupe (three times, once as director)
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Unscripted: perform in an Improv troupe (external, MI)
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Oatmeal: perform in a One Act troupe
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Sketch: perform in a Comedy Troupe
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On Film: perform in a Film troupe (directed it!)
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Authority Figure: be in Theatre Rice’s Committee (tech coordinator, Fa10)
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Executive Decision: be in Theatre Rice’s ExComm
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Director: direct a troupe
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Stepping Up: direct a troupe during your first semester
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Director Extraordinaire: direct at least half of the troupes you were in. (I’m off by one, but Jon made this one, even counting Fa11)
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Third Time’s The Charm: work with someone three shows in a row (Abby)
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You Again?: work with someone four shows in a row
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You Can Join Us: make an infosession video
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I’m On Flyer: make a flyer design that’s chosen for the show
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Asian Ghetto: hang out with TR at the Durant Food Court after a regular TuTh meeting
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Monster Pic: take a picture with Patricia in her monster makeup (Sp10)
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“Jason? Jason!”: be in a troupe with Jason ← I know, this isn’t fair, but I’ve wanted to be in a troupe with Jason pretty much since we joined. Maybe since Twicknam.
Programming Randomness
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Expensive Planetarium: write a Spacewar clone
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Korobeiniki: write a Tetris clone
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HAI WORLD: write a LOLCODE interpreter