As Spring and Summer approach, our anticipation for music festival season crescendos with a fury. Sunshine, music, beautiful people and booze? Give it here. CollegeCandy decided to kick off the music festival season with a good old fashioned bucket list. We have compiled a monster list of 50 things to complete before the season is over. Some items are more scandalous or embarrassing than others, but all are designed to make sure you have a hell of a time.

But not only are we offering you this list (because anyone can do that), we are taking things a step further and vowing to complete every item with you. That’s right, CollegeCandy editor, Jenny Baker, will take on the challenge as she travels to South by South West in Austin Texas this next week. If she can check off every item by the end of SXSW, there is no excuse for you to not finish the list before the end of the festival season. Every time Jenny completes a task, she will alert everyone via Twitter @NYC_CC, so you can follow her progress there. In order for CollegeCandy to officially check the item off, Jenny must provide either photo or video evidence of the deed. Sorry mom. Without further ado, we give you the 2012 Music Festival Bucket List:

1.    After party with a band
2.    Make out with a band member (Double points if you do it on stage)
3.    Lose one or more articles of clothing
4.    DONT lose your phone
5.    Sneak into a guest list party
6.    Wake up with pictures you don’t remember
7.    Crowd surf (double points if you jump off the stage)
8.    Collect phone numbers titled some variation of “cute blond boy stubbs stage 1″
9.    Take a tequila shot before 10am (don’t vomit)
10.    Drink a margarita the size of your face
11.    Try a different hangover cure every day
12.    Eat street food while drunk (don’t vomit)
13.    Walk up to random person, kiss them and walk away without saying a word
14.    Bong a beer
15.    Climb on strangers shoulders
16.    Get back stage
17.    Stay up for 24+ hours straight
18.    Wake up and not know where you are
19.    Get completely lost
20.    Make friends with 5 people from a different country or state
21.    Steal an article of clothing from a stranger
22.    Get a band member to give you a shout out on stage
23.    Hit on someone underage
24.    Get good or bad advice from a local [for SXSW, RIP Leslie Cochran]
25.    Sleep outside
26.    Get a sunburn
27.    Brush your teeth with booze [preferably a bottle of Jack]
28.    See a band you’ve never heard of or seen before
29.    Find another person with your same name
30.    Pee in public
31.    Run from security or someone in charge
32.    Have an artist autograph your skin
33.    Snap a photo with a celeb
34.    Throw your bra at the stage
35.    Do something inappropriate on stage
36.    Collect some free shwag
37.    Flash someone
38.    Corn roll or completely braid your hair (Ke$ha feather optional)
39.    Send a failed text message
40.    Hitch-hike
41.    Pick up a hitch-hiker
42.    Drunk tweet something you regret
43.    Hand roll your own cig
44.    Bum a cig from a celeb (or band member)
45.    Eat non finger foods with your hands
46.    Trade sunglasses with someone (Double points if they say Sorry For Partying)
47.    Triple points: trade outfits with someone of the opposite sex in public
48.    Moon someone (points if you have a tattoo on your ass)
49.    Interpretative dance…in the middle of a dance circle
50.    Collect a set of drum sticks or guitar pick

What do you think? Can Jenny complete this before her week at SXSW is over? What would you add to the list? Tweet suggestions to @NYC_CC!

College moves fast. One second you’re a freshman wandering around the campus with a lanyard and the next second you’re crossing the stage and collecting a diploma. You vaguely remember meeting your best friend when she held your hair back after your first frat party and you kinda remember that all-nighter you pulled to get 3 term papers done in one night. But the rest is a blur of theme parties, walks of shame, and begging your older sister for her fake ID.

Before you know it, you’re out in the real world, working a real job alongside real people, wondering what happened to no-class Friday and $3 pitchers. And trust me, it ain’t fun.

It gets pretty easy to get caught up in it all and forget to be young and crazy. That’s why, with only a little way’s to go until I hit the big 2-5, I’ve put together the ultimate list of everything we, as fun-loving and fearless women, need to accomplish before we turn 25.

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On the Twitterverse today, #thingsyoushouldstopdoinginyour30s is a trending topic. If we’re going to stop doing these things in our thirties then I’m pretty we need to start getting them out of our systems now. Things like: having a threesome with two girls (or guys) you met at the bar, living at home in your high school room, taking your girlfriends money (or even worse… your mom’s money), skipping class (or work) to make it Tuesday’s Happy Hour specials, asking teens for their numbers, fist-pumping at the bar, wearing your Free Snooki shirt and making jungle juice on the holiday… but maybe that’s just us.

Anyway, we scrolled through and found some of the best things you all think you should stop doing in your thirties…so seriously get it alllll out of your system now kids.

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TV Husbands with double lives

What’s on your summer bucket list?

Finger length may indicate a man’s…size

Neat!  Eye wear made from recycled skateboards

Jennifer Aniston is taking a break from acting

Healthy ways to lose weight easily

How to embrace the newest trend of tribal print

Well that was fast: Blake Lively moves in with Leo

[There comes a time in every girl’s life, (usually after a third or fourth martini), when she realizes “Damn, I need to do something… travel to Europe, take up Chinese, get married…someeeething! I need to change my life.” Finding myself in one such rut and without the cash-flow for a capricious jet-set to France, I decided to live by the book, take the plunge, and tackle the Benrik challenge. If you have never heard of Benrik’s This Book Will Change Your Life, crawl out from under the rock you have been living under, wipe the tired crust from your eyes, and listen up.]

Week 3- Task 1

Day 37 – Eat and Run

Let me preface this one by saying, I am a good person.  I swerve to avoid hitting animals. I give a few dollars to the homeless whenever I can. I even send over a bunch of toys for underprivileged children at Christmas! I am a good person, and even though the waitress I ran out on may say otherwise, I stand behind that statement. Now before you all judge me, let me say that I didn’t do this at a five star gourmet restaurant.  It was “Half-Off Night” at the local dive bar and my bill was only $2.00.  I found out later that my friend actually ended up paying for my drink and I paid him back the following day. So please, don’t fret. No waitresses were harmed in the completion of this task. Read More »

[There comes a time in every girl’s life, (usually after a third or fourth martini), when she realizes “Damn, I need to do something… travel to Europe, take up Chinese, get married…someeeething! I need to change my life.” Finding myself in one such rut and without the cash-flow for a capricious jet-set to France, I decided to live by the book, take the plunge, and tackle the Benrik challenge. If you have never heard of Benrik’s This Book Will Change Your Life, crawl out from under the rock you have been living under, wipe the tired crust from your eyes, and listen up.]

Week 2- Task 1

Day 356: Carve Something in a Tree

There is a tree stump the size of a mini-van in my college town of Ann Arbor, MI.  It is on the farthest north side of the “Diag,” or the center of the University of Michigan’s central campus. If you want to know what scandal I wrote on that multi-century year old tree, you now have a summer road-trip destination. Head on over to the Midwest, (make sure to stop by one of our famous Coney Islands Restaurants), find the larger-than-life tree stump, and if you let me know what it says, I’ll buy you a beer!

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Every winter break I always promise myself that I will be more organized than the last. I always mean to do all the things I dreamed of doing during finals when I was stuck in my study war-zone of an apartment, dreaming of the freedom and food of home. And then I get home, spend 10% of my time watching TV and 90% of my time stalking my college friends’ Facebook walls, and before I know it, it’s time to head back to school for round two.

So for those of you who have found yourself in the same sloth-like state as me and have only a few days left until break is officially a thing of the past, here is a list of things to accomplish that will make you feel, er, accomplished.

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Happy 2011, ladies!

It’s a new year, and you know what that means; it’s time to start working on those New Year’s resolutions. But before you start jotting down those promises take a minute and really think about this. New Year’s resolutions almost always involve giving something up, and making sacrifices. And that negative approach makes you all the less likely to keep them. Not fun  and definitely not productive. So instead, I’m offering you something a little bit different. Ten New Year’s resolutions that are actually attainable.

And even better, ten New Year’s resolutions you’ll actually want to keep.

10. Be more organized. In order to make any of your other way more interesting New Year’s resolutions happen you should probably commit to this one. Get a planner, or if you prefer, use a Google calendar, or your BlackBerry. (Or I’m sure there’s and iPhone app for that.) Keep track of dates. Make lists. Write down your goals. If you know what you want it’s so much easier to make it happen.

9. Do something you’ve always wanted to do. Everyone has a bucket list, something they’ve always wanted to do but have never had the time, the nerve or the money. This year, make it your resolution to make it happen. Get a tattoo. Learn to speak French. Have sex in the stacks. Whatever it is you’ve always wanted to do, make it happen.

8. Enjoy your family and your friends. We college girls live pretty busy lives, and that makes it difficult to stay in touch with people, even some of the people that matter most. This year, try not to let that happen. Make an effort to do more than just Facebook comment. If being in the same pace at the same time isn’t an option, try a Skype session. Or something they use to do way back when – a phone call. Read More »

There’s so much to accomplish in college, it can be overwhelming. At times it seems almost impossible to schedule in studying between losing your virginity and apologizing to your roommate for mistaking her drawer for a toilet. But luckily for you, we’ve got your back. Let us be your virtual parent (Do this, DON’T do that) and help you prioritize your goals with a bucket list of quality bucket lists.

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I’m a die-hard fan of summer.  I mean, come on.  Shirtless guys, gorgeous weather, no school…what’s not to love?  But as we find the best season of all coming to a close – mega sadface – I can’t help but feel there are a few quintessential summer activities left to squeeze in.

Put down that back-to-school shopping list; don’t even think about buying textbooks just yet.  I’ve got your final pre-fall moments all planned out in this ultimate bucket list:

Snag Some Pool Time
Preferably all weekend long.  Pretty soon the temperatures will drop and your bikini will just look out of place amongst all those North Face fleeces.  Worship the sun while you still can, and while it’s still appropriate.

Indulge in the Fashions
White.  Linen.  Sundresses.  Seersucker.  Flip flops.  Okay, maybe not flip flops, but there are definitely a few items in your closet that have an expiration date.  As much as I’d love to see snowsuits made of madras, it’s probably never going to happen (and would also probably fit into that “too much of a good thing” category).  Throw ‘em all on now before the fashion police beat down your door and force you into cashmere.

Chow Down and Drink Up
While no one says you can’t enjoy a frozen beverage or a good hot dog after the summer season, for some reason it’s just not as fun.  Go to the grocery store with your friends and insist on last barbecue – kabobs, margaritas, corn on the cob, watermelon…go all out!

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