101 Things to Do When You Major in Psychology at UB

1. Buy a latte and read USA Today in the Atrium of Park Hall.

2. Go to a professor's office during office hours and talk about something other than exams, papers, and grades.

3. Look elsewhere on this psychology site for links to information about careers with a degree in psychology--including careers for people with a BA in psychology.

4. Study outdoors.

5. Participate in research in psychology as a member of the Introductory Psychology Research Participant Group.

6. Pull an all-nighter.

7. Participate in planning the student-organized Psychology Department Graduation Ceremony in May. Ask Christa Greenberg, Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, in Park Hall Room 283 or ask at the Undergraduate Psychology Association (UPA), Park Hall Room 212, how you can get involved.

8. Read about UB's B.S. in Psychology Program and consider whether this is the right program for you.

9. Take the underground rapid transit line from UB's South Campus to downtown Buffalo.

10. When you are a junior, consider participating in UB's Psychology Department Honors Program

11. See a play at Studio Arena Theatre in downtown Buffalo.

12. In the Undergraduate Library do a search on PsychInfo on a psychology question that YOU are interested in (instead of the topic your professor has assigned).

13. Play frisbee golf.

14. Look at the list of "must read" psychology books recommended by faculty and collected by students in Psi Chi (the National Honor Society in Psychology)

15. Go to the beach at Beaver Island State Park (on the south end of Grand Island in the Niagara River).

16. Get involved in research in psychology by enrolling for Psychology 498 - Independent Work or 499 - Independent Study.

17. Volunteer to work for NYPIRG.

18. Read about faculty research interests of the professors in UB's Department of Psychology.

19. Explain to a friend why a correlation of -.80 can be more important than a correlation of .20.

20. Visit an art exhibit in UB's Center for the Arts.

21. See a show (any show!) at Shea's Buffalo Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Buffalo.

22. Double major in Psychology and English or Biology.

23. Suggest a research idea to one of your psychology professors.

24. Learn the words to UB's alma mater so you can sing it at commencement.

25. Run with a friend on the Ellicott Creek Bike Path.

26. See a foreign film at the North Park Theatre on Hertel Avenue in North Buffalo.

27. Take more than the minimum number of required courses in Group B, Psychology as a Life Science.

28. Go to the Psychology Undergraduate Studies Office, Park Hall Room 283, and pick up several of the information handouts in the literature rack in the hallway.

29. Stay up all night talking in your dorm hallway.

30. Based on what you have learned in your psychology courses, write a letter to the Spectrum. Even better, write an Op Ed column for the Spectrum.

31. Provide helpful advice to a student who became a psych major more recently than you.

32. Watch a Bulls football game in UB's stadium.

33. Kiss your significant other while going up in a Park Hall elevator.

34. Rollerblade to class.

35. Learn a few phrases in a new language.

36. Buy clothes at the Gap.

37. Hear the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in Kleinhans Music Hall.

38. Enjoy a "Shakespeare in the Park" play in Buffalo's Delaware Park in the summer.

39. Stop and enjoy the flowering trees planted between Park Hall and Flint Loop (between Park Hall and Capen Hall) with donations solicited by students in Psi Chi (the National Honor Society in Psychology)

40. Have coffee on campus at Starbucks.

41. Talk with a friend outside of class about something you learned in a psychology course that day.

42. Attend a protest, demonstration, rally, or sit-in.

43. Go skiing at Kissing Bridge.

44. Explain to someone why the difference between two means might not be statistically significant.

45. Take a class just because someone told you the professor is great.

46. Get a campus parking ticket.

47. Figure out what HSBC (one of Buffalo's banks) stands for.

48. Go to the Campus Bookstore and buy a book about psychology that is not required for your courses.

49. Go to a campus career fair.

50. Ask a question of an invited campus speaker.

51. Bicycle along the Ellicott Creek Bike Path to Ellicott Creek Park.

52. Order wings at the Anchor Bar on Main Street, where Buffalo chicken wings were invented.

53. Visit the observation deck near the top of Buffalo's art deco City Hall.

54. Hike in the woods at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park.

55. Stop by Park Hall Room 283 and say hello to Christa Greenberg, Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Psychology.

56. Vote in a Student Association election.

57. Complain about the food on campus.

58. Go see Niagara Falls. Ride the "Maid of the Mist" in the Niagara River and go under the falls.

59. Go to an Undergraduate Psychology Association (UPA) meeting.

60. Learn to say Scajaquada, Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, and Lackawanna.

61. Figure out once-and-for-all the meaning of life.

62. Have a foot-long hotdog at Ted's on Niagara Falls Boulevard.

63. Enjoy a play at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada.

64. Volunteer to help with UB's fall or spring Open House or with freshman orientation.

65. Spend a day in Toronto (less than two hours away).

66. Participate in Oozefest.

67. Donate blood.

68. Fall asleep in the library.

69. Take an Incomplete.

70. Park your car at the Center for Tomorrow parking lot and take the shuttle to the Spine.

71. Go sledding at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park.

72. Attend a UB student dance or theatre production in the Black Box Theatre in the basement of the Center for the Arts. Check out current shows at: http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/depts/theatredance/productions/index.shtml

73. Visit the Undergraduate Psychology Association (UPA) office, Park Hall Room 212, and pick up some flyers about student-organized workshops, seminars, and other activities.

74. Visit the seminar room in Park Hall Room 209 (enter at Room 204) and admire the original artwork by psychology professor Kenneth Levy.

75. Enroll in a topics in psychology course numbered 476 to 490. These special courses, often taught by advanced doctoral students, are one-time courses on unusual topics in psychology that are not part of the regular curriculum.

76. Plan a dorm program.

77. Consider applying to one of UB's doctoral programs in Psychology or UB's program leading to an M.A. in psychology.

78. Go to a Buffalo Bills football game in Orchard Park.

79. Max out your credit card.

80. Visit Career Planning and Placement in Talbert Hall. Get ideas about jobs, careers, graduate school, placement files, resumes, letters of reference.

81. With a few other students, invite a psychology professor or teaching assistant to have coffee and talk in the Atrium of Park Hall or on the Baldy Hall Walkway.

82. See a Sabres game at the HSBC Center in downtown Buffalo.

83. Have Buffalo wings at Duff's at the corner of Millersport Highway and Sheridan Drive.

84. Go shopping and see a movie at Walden Galleria Mall.

85. Be kissed by your significant other while going up in the Park Hall elevator.

86. Go to one of the career workshops or graduate school workshops organized by the Undergraduate Psychology Association (UPA).

87. In your junior or senior year, sit in the back of a Psych 101 Introductory Psychology lecture--for fun, to reminisce, to learn.

88. Ride the cable car across the whirlpool in the Niagara Gorge in Canada north of Niagara Falls.

89. Go to Rootie's on Millersport Highway in Getzville and have Buffalo wings.

90. Suggest an item for updating the Psych101 list. You must nominate an item number to be dropped. Send suggestions to Christa Greenberg, cmgreen@buffalo.edu

91. Check out some of the online course pages constructed by psychology professors.

92. Explain to a friend why one can't infer causation from a correlation.

93. Receive e-mail messages about research opportunities, internships, and new courses on an e-mail listserv list: psychology-majors-list. If you are a psych major and are not receiving messages, contact Christa Greenberg, Park Hall Room 283, cmgreen@acsu.buffalo.edu

94. When a friend tells a racist or sexist joke, let the friend know that you are offended and explain why. Ask your friend to not tell racist and sexist jokes when you are present.

95. Participate in the fall in the Linda Yalem Memorial Run.

96. Take a psychology course numbered 461 or higher; these are advanced courses (senior seminars or special topics courses), taught by faculty, on current research topics, theories, and controversies that are not yet part of the regular curriculum.

97. Recommend that a friend take a course from your favorite psychology professor.

98. Check out the neat demonstrations on the web of visual illusions

99. Drop by the psychology lounge in Park Hall Room 204, sit for a while, and strike up a conversation with another student or a professor.

100. At the Undergraduate Library, do a PsychInfo author search on your favorite professor's name.

101. Buy a UB sweatshirt.

Scoring:

If you answered yes to fewer than 10: not significant

If you answered yes to 11 to 20: p < .10 (a trend).

If you answered yes to 21 to 30: p < .05 (marginally significant)

If you answered yes to 31 to 40: p < .01 (significant)

If you answered yes to 41 to 50: p < .001 (strongly signficant)

If you answered yes to 51 or more: p < .0001 (highly significant)