We all know that feeling when we see a group project listed on a class syllabus. I mean, who doesn’t love working with a group of not like-minded people forced to come together to do varying degrees of acceptable work that only counts for approximately 50% of your total grade? I, for one, would rather do these 75 things before I did another group project.
1. Participate in the Hunger Games.
2. Memorize the first trillion digits of Pi.
3. Become a Kanye West fan.
4. Kiss a piranha.
5. Talk politics with someone who disagrees with me.
6. Eat Brussels sprouts.
7. Give up ice cream.
8. Adopt a scorpion.
9. Take a cold shower.
10. Have my appendix removed.
11. Read a dictionary.
12. Wear a UNC shirt.
13. Fall down a flight of stairs.
14. Have braces again.
15. Clean a dorm bathroom.
16. Drive a Prius.
17. Stand in the world’s longest line.
18. Retake the SAT.
19. Step in dog poop with shoes on.
20. Step in dog poop with no shoes on.
21. Lose my phone charger.
22. Get a root canal.
23. Move to Antarctica.
24. Total my car.
25. Tear my ACL.
26. Watch a documentary on paint drying.
27. Relive middle school.
28. Battle Voldemort with a pool noodle.
29. Take a bath in a dorm bathtub.
30. Use hot sauce for mouthwash.
31. Leave Ben & Jerry’s ice cream out in the sun.
32. Eat it.
33. Listen to the Walmart yodeling kid on repeat.
34. Pull three all-nighters in a row without coffee.
35. Pay a campus parking ticket.
36. Become a chemical engineering major.
37. Eat a tarantula burger.
38. Be sent to Oz.
39. Sit in an ER waiting room.
40. Fall asleep while wearing contacts.
41. Be asked “Are you still watching?” on Netflix.
42. Wake up with a snake in my bed.
43. Get my name butchered at Starbucks.
44. Only speak Pig Latin.
45. Get a speeding ticket going five over.
46. Wash my hair with body lotion.
47. Shave my legs with a cheese grater.
48. Eat Lucky Charms with water.
49. Watch YouTube ads for a whole day.
50. Relearn the English language.
51. Burn my tongue on pizza rolls.
52. Apply makeup in the dark.
53. Tell a Harry Potter fan the movies are better than the books.
54. Eat food with hair in it.
55. Fight off a crocodile with crocs.
56. Churn butter.
57. Eat laxatives.
58. Take a cumulative exam.
59. Put my hand in a beehive.
60. Go on a date with a troll.
61. Do an icebreaker.
62. Get a splinter in my eye.
63. Skip Christmas.
64. Put my hand on a grill.
65. Get gum stuck in my hair.
66. Watch the Twilight trilogy with my eyes taped open.
67. Give away my boyfriend.
68. Burn my Disney DVDs.
69. Shave my eyelashes.
70. Run a mile in the desert.
71. Drink cough syrup.
72. Get stranded on an island.
73. Lose my favorite necklace.
74. Have an interaction with a ghost.
75. Lose Internet access.
Unfortunately, we’ll all have to work with a group at some point in the future whether it’s for a college group project or work. At least we can still imagine all the things that could be slightly less painful than them, am I right?