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Ava Stern

Fall Things You Have to do

Updated: Oct 1

By Ava Stern


  • Listen to Phoebe Bridgers

  • Have an acorn fall on your head

  • Pick a leaf up from the ground cinematically

  • Buy at least one pumpkin thing from Trader Joe’s

  • Say you are going to go to a haunted house but never actually go

  • Go on a hike at Rock Creek Park (trust me- you have to)

  • Jump in a pile of leaves

  • Critique a million-dollar house’s Halloween decorations

  • Scare someone

  • Bake something

  • Eat (drink?) soup

  • Light an excessive amount of candles and dance in your living room

  • Use the opening “Happy Fall!” in an email

  • Listen to Bob Dylan

  • Wear a jean jacket

  • Wrap your cardigan and look longingly into nothing like they do in “Big Little Lies”

  • Cry at the National Cathedral (happy or sad)

  • Take a photo of the foliage on campus

  • Look at old photos of your Halloween costumes

  • Drink tea

  • Wear plaid

  • Get a special drink at The Bridge

  • Read Sally Rooney

  • Romanticize

  • Get lost in the stacks at the library

  • Wear a costume to school on Halloween

  • Dance

  • Listen to the album “Blue Banisters” by Lana Del Rey

  • Specifically, “Thunder”

  • Text your friends on Thanksgiving

  • Sent a handwritten letter

  • Rewatch your comfort movie

  • Be cliche

  • Read the Amlit blog :)

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