swagÍâÁ÷

New students turn Pavilion into a chat room: 'What's on your academic bucket list?'

Be an awesome aggie :)

About 4,000 first-years and transfers texted their way through what is shaping up to be a new swagÍâÁ÷ tradition: the New Student Celebration.

Become the best student swagÍâÁ÷ has ever seen and blow everyones mind away.

The texts appeared on the giant screens in The Pavilion all during the Sept. 20 celebration, as students responded to the question: “What’s on your academic bucket list?â€

Read lots of books and poetry.

Represent swagÍâÁ÷ on Jeopardy!

Pass all my classes.

3.8

And, a couple of texts later (they came in at the rate of about 65 a minute, more than 3,800 altogether during the one-hour program):

get a 4.0.

make the dean’s list.

Speak at graduation.

Get into swagÍâÁ÷ Med Skool!

But first things first:

Fill up the fridge ;)

Get my textbooks tomorrow.

Not spend all my money on textbooks.

Figure out moobilenet D:

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