Sean's Suggested Goals for a Fulfilling Life in Adams

• Debate a timely topic with an eminent member of our SCR over lunch on Wednesday, then leave 5 minutes early to get to class.
• Paint a mural on a theme by Bosch or Dali in the tunnels.
• Come to at least one Life Seminar, if not all of them, and dream up topics never yet presented.
• Read a book in the famous Apthorp House Bathroom Library, or better,
• Read all the art or children’s books in the Apthorp Library.
• Come to Masters’ Teas (all of them), in fact,
• Join our Apthorp House Culinary Team and bake for a tea or two.
• Play IMs (all of them, even those you’ve never heard of).
• Listen to Thesis Show presentations this Spring and sense the greatness that awaits you.
• Play a fugue on the great organ in the LCR.
• Perform at Drag Night, flinging all your inhibitions to the winds.
• Listen to, or read, a part in a Winnie the Pooh Reading at the Winter Feast.
• Freeze a friend in a snow ball fight in Randolph Courtyard, and drink hot chocolate in front of Apthorp fires afterwards.
• Play right field in a student vs tutor softball game.
• Travel the world via http://www.palfrey.com
• Host a Shakespeare play reading in the Pool, recreating the era of greatness when casts performed naked in those hallowed waters.
• Never miss a Smoothie Brain Break.
• Babysit for Ethan or Selah, or one or more of the younger set.
• Pig out at Chocaholica on Valentines Day.
• Stay up all night long, then eat breakfast at IHOP after helping HoCo run a house event.
• Work or play on a Sunday evening at Apthorp House in front of our fires.
• Find 13 stained glass windows in the house, and two dragons.
• Watch a ridiculous movie all the way through at a Carpe Noctem.
• Sit on FDR’s very own toilet in B-17 if there is no one in there at the time.
• Learn to salsa or waltz before a dance and amaze your friends.
• Act the part of a randy housemaid in one of our annual French farces.
• Stumble into one of Otto’s late night study breaks and go back to work feeling well-loved and well-fed.
• Check out the Edward Penfield paintings of his imagined “college life” on the Coolidge Room walls.
• Admire close up (without touching) the real gold leaf in the Gold Room and dizzy yourself in the patterns of the moorish ceiling of the grand staircase.
• Hang by your thumbs on a wall in the Mountaineering Club under Claverly Hall, or, if you prefer,
• Hang out in the ArtSpace with Tom and Ethan chatting and planning your first art show in the Squash Courts.
• Carve an amazing pumpkin for the Halloween Pumpkin- carving contest, and while you’re in the mood,
• Scare the living daylights out of innocent school children in the Adams House Halloween party for Cambridge kids.
• Take a game of pingpong off one of the masters Palfrey or Tai Chi Master Lee, in fact,
• Learn Tai Chi from the cool and dangerous Master Lee on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
• Translate the Chinese text on the Keily Conservatory wall and heed its wisdom.
• Listen to a concert in the Lower Common Room.
• Zen out amidst the silver patterns of 19th C tea paper used as wall paper in an Apthorp closet.
• Submit a photograph for enlargement and display on the walls of the Small Dining room, in Claverly, or elsewhere.
• Sculpt and show off your ripped abs in the Adams House gym.
• Check out the steam tunnels, where to enter is to die (of dust inhalation or hyperthermia).
• Watch a meteor shower from the tower.
• Write, produce and perform a one act play in the Kronauer black box theater, all in 24 hours.
• Print a love poem in the Bow and Arrow Press.
• Admire the 1920s graffiti of girls and boxers and flappers in the Apthorp House attic, and even,
• Write a paper on Apthorp’s time as a prison for Gentleman Johnnie Burgoyne, or barracks for Revolutionary soldiers.
• Lead Adams House to its second ever Straus Cup IM Championship.