Bucket List
Continue to main contentYou'll have several years to explore Southeast and Cape Girardeau, but to help you find your way, we’ve asked current students to share their must-do list for your first year on campus!
- Tailgate and watch the Redhawk Walk along Bellevue St. before a home football game
- Go into the Dome
- See a show at the River Campus
- Watch the lights turn off on the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge at midnight
- Feed the ducks at Capaha Park
- Make some international friends and learn a new language
- Go sledding on the old band field behind Towers
- Study abroad
- Go out for First Friday downtown and see all of the art shows
- Get dirty fries from Burritoville
- Play sports on the practice field next to LaFerla/Towers late at night
- Wake up early (or don't go to bed) and get breakfast at Towers when they open
- Walk to Andy's Frozen Custard
- Eat at every place on campus
- Go to at least one of each Redhawk athletic home event
- Get ice cream at Spanish Street Mercantile... and Sugar Chic... and Buddy's Rolled Ice Cream
- Join something, anything
- Walk along the Mississippi River
- Try Lambert's Cafe in Sikeston and catch a throwed roll
- Walk up Cardiac Hill
- Go to the Homecoming Parade
- Use the Aquatic Center. It's one of the coolest things you're already paying for on campus
- Visit Cape Rock
- Put a piece of gum on the Gum Tree