By Aimee Jewell–

Jonnie Penn and Dave Lingwood from MTV’s “The Buried Life” came to campus to teach and inspire students to live life to the fullest.

What would you do before you die?

These messages have been spread all over campus the past few weeks in the form of yard signs, chalkboards in the library, and flyers. And although it is somewhat of a morbid thought, discussing death and the inevitability of dying, Jonnie Penn and Dave Lingwood from MTV’s ‘The Buried Life’ came to campus on Thursday, April 11 to dispute that claim. With inspirational quotes, numerous touching stories, and fun-loving attitudes, Penn and Lingwood kept the audience enteretained by teaching the importance of living life to the fullest.

Penn and Lingwood told students about their struggles, growing up as poor college kids in Canada, without a feeling of purpose, and also discussed with students how important it is to have a sense of worth, while spreading happiness and achieving goals they set for themselves.

Later in the evening, Lingwood and Penn opened the floor up to the audience and asked students their main objective of their nation-wide: What would you do before you die? One by one, students approached the mics and revealed to the audience of what their bucketlists consisted.

Sticking around for a photo and meet-and-greet session after their inspiring lecture, Penn and Lingwood also networked with students, attempting to help members of the audience  achieve their aspirations. Penn and Lingwood were promoting the new “Buried Life” book, while also suggesting that students e-mail them at [email protected] with a certain bucketlist item, in hopes of making it on their hit TV show, ‘The Buried Life,’ inspired by Matthew Arnold’s poem.

Penn and Lingwood’s visit to campus left students ellated and energized to finish out the spring semester with a sense of purpose and direction.

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Photo courtesy of Gerome Stevens