1. You get an “I voted” sticker.
2. You have a good excuse to be late to class. (Hey, the line could be long. Really long.)
3. This country needs a cheer, and “Drill, Baby, Drill!” might just be it.
4. It gives you something to talk about at Thanksgiving dinner — especially if you vote against your family’s favored candidate.
5. Election Day is like (choose one: Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Eid) for the candidates. So, effectively, you’re their (choose one: Santa Claus or religious variation).
6. You have 13 hours to vote. When have you ever had that much time to bubble in answers to questions? Plus, none of your choices are wrong.
7. You can help make real change — Obama change or McCain change, it’s your choice — in Washington. Whether that’s good change is another question.
8. When campaigners shout at you to vote for their candidates, or wave signs in your face, you can shoo them away in good faith.
9. If you don’t vote, the Electoral College could win. And you don’t want that to happen.
10. If you were part of the 42 percent of registered North Carolina voters who have already cast their ballots, you could have stopped reading this by now.
11. When you turn in that ballot, you can revel in putting an end to the seemingly longest horse race election in history.
12. If you weren’t 18 four years ago, you now have a choice in who runs your country.
13. You have the chance to make the White House a half-black house.
14. This could be the first election in 31 years North Carolina has been led by a Republican governor.
15. Road trip (To the polls)!
16. Get a little taste of off-campus air.
17. You want to stop reading about the election in Technician.
18. The economy needs you.
19. You want a job after college.
20. Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free ice cream to voters.
21. Starbucks will give voters a free small coffee.
22. Krispy Kreme will hand out “star shaped doughnut with patriotic sprinkles” to people who vote.
23. You could make history: we could have the first black president.
24. You could make history: we could have the first female vice president.
25. Ronald Reagan, the oldest elected president in history, was 69 years old at inauguration. If elected, McCain will break his record at 72.
26. John F. Kennedy, the youngest elected president in history, was 43 years old at inauguration. If elected, Obama will only be four years older at 47.
27. You can practice filling in bubbles for your finals.
28. North Carolina is a swing state.
29. If you’re a woman, this is only your 22nd chance to vote in a presidential election.
30. Every vote counts. (Remember Florida and Ohio?)
31. It’s your last presidential vote as a student. You’ll likely have graduated by Nov. 2012.
32. You’re exercising a right. For free. Thank the 15th, 17th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments.
33. North Carolina has one of the nation’s highest gas taxes.
34. If you vote, you can complain.
35. You’ll stop getting invited to election Facebook groups.
36. No one else can do it for you.
37. The Saturday Night Live skits will just get better and better, no matter who you vote for.
38. Keep the polling places busy.
39. Stay warm on the cold November morning.
40. If you vote for McCain, you nullify someone’s vote for Obama.
41. If you vote for Obama, you nullify someone’s vote for McCain.
42. The candidates will stop texting you.
43. The campaign signs will disappear.
44. You can’t do it for another four years.
45. The old people manning the polls are always really nice and smiling.
46. A recent NYU poll said that 20 percent of students would give up their right to vote for an iPod Touch.
47. Five of the nine Supreme Court justices are heading toward retirement age, which means five potential vacancies during the new president’s term.
48. It’s illegal to have your cell phone on in the North Carolina polls — which means not listening to people talk on the phone.
49. You can always vote against someone if you don’t want to vote for someone else.
50. If you’re under 20, you’ve never had a president who wasn’t named Bush or Clinton.
51. It just feels good.