Another year, another White Out, and another round of you realizing your roommate’s cousin’s friend just sold their White Out ticket for the price of a level three meal plan.

If you weren’t selected in the student ticket lottery, you’re probably scrolling Ticketmaster with tears in your eyes, so here are a few things that you might consider exchanging or giving up to experience this year’s White Out.

1. A Month’s Rent

No matter where you live, you’re probably paying at least $900 to live in a cinderblock with a futon. Why not put that money toward a once-in-a-lifetime, or if you get lucky, four-times-in-a-lifetime experience?

2. Your Liver

If you sell your liver, which probably isn’t doing much for you anymore anyway, you could afford a small family’s set of White Out tickets.

3. A Spring Break Trip To Anywhere (Flight Included)

Honestly, no view compares to a White Out glow. Just trade your Spring Break savings for a White Out ticket and you’re guaranteed to have a better time.

4. Your Scooter

You can survive the hike up Shortlidge on foot, but you can’t survive missing the White Out game.

5. Your Laptop

Sure, you will have to take notes old school style, but so what? Professors post the lectures on Canvas, and spending a little more time to keep up is worth it.

6. Your Flatscreen TV

Might as well, you won’t need it anyway because you’ll get a ticket to the only thing on TV worth watching.

7. A Brand New iPhone 17 Pro Max

You could spend $1099 on the latest overpriced Apple device, or on the loudest game in college football. You pick. Plus, your old phone will work perfectly fine for student section selfies.

8. A Semester’s Worth Of Starbucks

Yes, your 8 a.m. lecture grade will suffer, but nothing wakes you up like Zombie Nation anyway, so just bribe someone with daily Starbucks for their ticket.

9. Unlimited Doggies Pizza For the Rest Of The Semester

Is giving up a semester of late-night slices worth it? Absolutely. You can always convince a friend to share when you get desperate.

10. Your Soul (Figuratively…Probably)

Listen, people are paying astronomical prices for tickets online. If that doesn’t count as a soul trade, what does?

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White Out tickets may be insanely overpriced, but let’s be honest, nothing compares to 110,000 fans, Zombie Nation shaking the stadium, and the opportunity to lose your voice for an entire week.

When it comes to the White Out, the price is steep, but the bragging rights are priceless.