On Feb. 21, 2011, The Daily Tar Heel published a bucket list of 100 things UNC students should do before they graduate.
During their first year at UNC, seniors Bryce Edwards, Joe Townsend, Patrick Hahn, Teresa Nguyen and pharmacy graduate student Faustina Nguyen decided to tackle the bucket list.
“We were bored and didn’t know what to do. Patrick actually came across this bucket list that was published in the DTH, and we said, ‘Oh, it’d be kinda fun,” Townsend said.
What originally started as a spontaneous solution to boredom quickly developed into a long-term project for the friend group.
“I would say the beginning of our second semester of freshman year, we decided that we were really going to commit to doing all 100 list items and documenting the whole thing,” Townsend said.
Townsend is an aspiring documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who has committed to filming and editing the entire bucket list adventure.
“Now, we’re not just friends — we’re a team. We’ve learned to use each other’s strengths to accomplish goals,” Townsend said.
The five friends, who have been close since their first year of high school, said the bucket list has become something they hope to look back on in the future.