1. Get a job

Always a good idea, but it’s not a very exciting end goal, is it?

2. Go to Australia

If you’re like most of Lakeland’s students, you were born and raised in the States. Well, guess what! There’s more to life than 50 states full of fat people getting fatter and happier, and skinny people getting skinnier and sadder. And why Australia? It’s about as far as you can get before you really ought to learn another language. Of course, if you’re bilingual, go ahead and take your pick of the countries. And if you’re an international student, go ahead and check this one off your list!

3. Live in the woods

You don’t have to be Thoreau to enjoy living in harmony with nature. You can learn all sorts of things from your interactions with members of the natural world. You can learn to sit still and silent from a tree, sing like everything’s alright from a bird, jump for joy from a frog and play dead from an opossum.

4. Build stuff

Make a table; you can put stuff the table. Make a chair; you can sit on it when you’re exhausted from making the table and the chair. Make a cabinet; you can use it to store all the tools you had to buy to make the table, the chair and the cabinet. Make a loveseat; you can sit on it with the person you impressed by building the table, the chair, the cabinet and the loveseat. Make a house; you can use it to store the table, the chair, the cabinet, the loveseat, and the person you impressed by building the table, the chair, the cabinet and the loveseat.

5. Travel the countryside

Duct tape yourself to the front of your friend’s pickup truck. Make sure to use a couple of rolls and really secure yourself there. This is perfect for those graduating with a degree in biology who have always been interested in entomology. You may have dissected insects in the classroom, but do you know the difference between the taste of a monarch butterfly and the taste of arachnid? Take some time to yourself and travel America’s highways, gathering new insights about your favorite creepy crawlies.