101 Things to Do
Around the LSU campus and in the surrounding community.
This list has been created with current COVID-19 guidelines in place. If you discover a closure, please let us know at campuslife@lsu.edu and we will update the listing.
- Walk, run, ride, or skate the University Lakes
- Grab lunch to go at the Club at Union Square
- Visit the Andonie Sports Museum to take in some of LSU's athletics history
- Learn the proper spelling of Go. Hint, G-e-a-u-x
- Get involved in a student organization; check out the many offerings on TigerLink
- Run for office or vote in Student Government elections
- Play golf on the LSU golf course
- Take an in-person or virtual Group X Class with LSU UREC
- Attend a Student Senate meeting or speak during Public Forum
- Learn the words to the Alma Mater
- Enjoy a cup of coffee your friends outside the Barnes & Noble Bookstore
- Kiss someone in front of the Memorial Tower at midnight on Valentine’s Day
- Order your LSU Ring
- Selfie opportunity on the PMAC outdoor concourse with Tiger Stadium behind you
- Walk, run or ride the levee from the LSU Vet School to downtown Baton Rouge (~3 miles)
- Have a mock interview or get your resume reviewed with Olinde Career Center
- Walk through Free Speech Alley by the LSU Student Union and meet someone new
- Participate in a service project with Volunteer LSU
- Volunteer in the LSU Food Pantry
- Get your photo in the LSU Gumbo yearbook
- Take a ride on a Tiger Trails bus
- Apply for a scholarship
- Visit Mike the Tiger in his habitat
- Borrow a laptop or video equipment from the LSU Library
- Soak up some sun on the Parade Ground or the Patrick F. Taylor Lawn
- Post a funny Classified Ad in the LSU Reveille
- Listen to a KLSU radio show hosted by students (91.1FM or stream online)
- Tune into “Spontaneous Combustion” - the world’s longest running jazz program in KLSU 91.1FM hosted by DJ Zia “The Cat” Tammami since 1977
- Watch Tiger TV
- Visit the College of Art & Design Sculpture Garden
- Feed the ducks at the LSU Lakes
- Have lunch with a professor at the LSU Student Union
- Visit the War Memorial on the Parade Ground
- Find all four time capsule locations on campus (to be opened in 2050, 2067, 2076 and 2160 respectively)
- Visit an exhibit in one of LSU’s seven galleries
- Enjoy an outdoor lunch in the Enchanted Forest
- Study by the Dodson Fountain in the Quad
- Take a nap in the Quad
- Learn the words to the LSU Fight Song, Fight for LSU
- Sing along with the Memorial Tower while it plays the Alma Mater at Noon
- Study at the Greek Theater when the crepe myrtles are in bloom
- Visit the LSU Rural Life Museum
- Watch the lighting of the LSU Christmas tree during Holiday Spectacular
- Tour three amazing student centers in a row on Veterans Drive: the Clarence L. Barney Jr. African American Cultural Center, William A. Brookshire Military & Veterans Student Center, and the LSU Women’s Center (please call in advance)
- Visit the fountain outside the International Cultural Center
- Buy a poster from the Poster Sale at the beginning of each semester
- Learn all the cheers for an LSU Football game
- Visit the UPS Store to check your mail, ship a package, or print an assignment
- Register to vote
- Attend an LSU Olinde Career Center event
- Find an on-campus or off-campus job on Handshake
- Write a letter to the editor of the LSU Reveille
- Complete your LSU Safety Checklist
- Find an inspiring story with TEDxLSU
- Take a photo with at least two Mike the Tiger statues
- Take pictures of the Memorial Tower at night
- Take selfies with Heisman winner Billy Cannon, NBA greats Bob Pettit and Shaquille O’Neal, and Coach Skip Bertman
- Visit your professor during office hours (in person or online)
- Watch the sun set over the levee by the Vet school
- Ride a bike around campus
- Make a bike connection with LSU and Baton Rouge bicycling organizations
- Shop or eat at Nicholson Gateway
- Meet the dean of your senior college
- Celebrate LSU’s birthday every year (January 2, 1860)
- Meet the Library Subject Specialist staff member for your senior college or major
- Get your hair cut in the Student Union
- Make time to improve your time management skills or your study skills at the Center for Academic Success
- Wear purple and gold together
- Visit a church, synagogue, temple or Islamic center near campus
- Learn about native Louisiana fauna at LSU’s Hilltop Arboretum
- Hear yourself echo in the center of Free Speech Plaza in front of the LSU Student Union Theater
- Make a friend from another state and one from another country
- Attend an LSU Science Café (live or online)
- Experience LSU stories of being Fierce for the Future
- Visit Allosaurus in the lobby of Howe-Russell Hall
Around Baton Rouge
- Visit Mike’s tiger cousins at the Baton Rouge Zoo
- Take a short walk to City-Brooks Park and visit the Baton Rouge Gallery
- Volunteer in Baton Rouge with the Capital Area United Way
- Visit the Red Stick Farmers’ Market on Thursdays or Saturdays
- Attend the Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival in January
- Attend the Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival
- Attend one of Baton Rouge’s many annual festivals
- Attend a Baton Rouge Pride event
- Attend a Baton Rouge Mardi Gras parade
- Visit historic 3rd Street in Downtown Baton Rouge
- Take a photo outside the Historic Lincoln Theater, the site of the planning for the first Civil Rights bus boycott in the US in 1953
- Volunteer with the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
- Explore BREC’s 180 parks in East Baton Rouge parish
- Visit the Louisiana Old State Capitol
- Take in a performance at the Shaw Center for the Arts
- Splash in the Fountain outside the Shaw Center for the Arts
- Explore the galleries at the LSU Museum of Art located in the Shaw Center in downtown Baton Rouge
- Get star-struck at Highland Road Public Observatory
- Explore Baton Rouge museums for free the first Sunday of every month
- Visit the mummy in the Ancient Egypt Gallery or view a planetarium show at Louisiana Art & Science Museum
- Take a stroll through Louisiana history and culture at the Capitol Park Museum in downtown Baton Rouge
- Tour the USS Kidd Veterans Museum in downtown Baton Rouge
- Take up disc golf at one of four BREC disc golf parks
- Traipse BREC’s Bluebonnet Swamp
- Explore the parish-wide network of connected pathways and greenways
- Visit the recently installed Sing the River Sculpture that plays music that corresponds with the rise and fall of the Mississippi River