Top 10: most underrated senior trip ideas

March 30, 2023 — by Kavya Patel and Howard Shu
Graphic by Kavya Patel
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The perfect list of trip ideas to entertain others, sometimes at your own expense.

10. Channel Islands National Park

There are no transportation services, buildings or stores on these islands. If you liked “Lord of the Flies,” you can truly live the experience here.

9. Mars (one-way trip)

For all the seniors whose lives are doomed to begging for money on the streets after only getting into a top-30 college instead of a top-10 college, this is the solution. Your otherworldly talent will certainly get you into Stanford now … as long as you also have a 4.9 GPA and can find the cure to cancer.

8. The North and South Poles

Maybe polar coordinates will actually be useful here.

7. The college you got into

A very unique idea to demonstrate your school spirit! And buy lots of swag.

6. Your local Planet Fitness

This is where people use machines in revolutionary ways, such as doing push-ups on the assisted pull-up machine. You might even get to use the machines if you wait through their 10-minute breaks between sets.

5. England 

You can walk around yelling “1776” and enjoy quality British delicacies like beans on toast. Watching American sports at 3 a.m. also hits different.

4. Arizona

Taking “let ‘em cook” literally.

3. Gotham City

We said most interesting, not best. The Riddler might blow up your whole apartment complex for 10 gifted subs on his Twitch stream.

2. The Caribbean

Reward yourself with an extremely overpriced trip to Turks and Caicos … or sneak on a ship and hope you end up there. 

1. The Journalism Room

There’s no better vacation than enjoying the food at Deadline Night!

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