And AGAIN, you know that you go to AU when...
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Submitted by Melanie:
408. Moose is a girl's best friend, but if your a guy, he wants your money.
409. You avoid wearing low-rise pants to TDR so that you don't become like so many other girls whose ass cracks can be seen between the spaces in the chairs.
410. Your president's bank account is worth more than your life, but he has repeatedly given NOTHING to the Sigma Chi Doorman-a-thon for the Children's Miracle Network.
411. You have no idea who Graham Gawrysiak is (that's me, page creator!) but Shangboing is definately on your buddy list.
412. You own Requiem for a Dream, and LOVE Boondock Saints.
413. You're still trying to figure out which fraternity Marty Beckerman is talking about.
Submitted by Jessie:
414. You technically live on northside but everyone thinks you live on southside, including the DRs (& you have an ID to those dorms).
415. You dont smoke but everytime one of your friends who does goes outside for a cigarette you go too for the social aspect.
416. You catch yourself calling a carbonated beverage "soda" when clearly it should be called "pop".
417. You know more than one person who has submitted to "you know you go to AU when..."
418. The levels in MGC and Butler confuse the hell out of you! (someone tell me, does there really need to be two floor 2s?).
419. The smell that comes out of the little creek in the ampitheater reminds you of something real nasty but you cant put your finger on it.
420. You've had TDR workers tell you to leave so they can start cleaning up.
421. You still cant figure out what sort of adhesive will stick to the dorm walls.
422. You check all the updates on this webpage everyday.
Submitted by Rizky:
423. You snarl when someone mentions a certain somebody by the name of "Lane."
424. Your poetry professor tells you that pop tarts make him belch.
425. You give your professor signals that you have to leave early because you have another class in less than 10 minutes across campus (don't you wish you brought your rollerblades with you?).
426. Everyone knows homestarrunner.com.
Submitted by James:
427. The Chi Alpha society compete with the Anime Society for popularity in the Ward Terrace on certain Friday nights.
Submitted by Freck:
428. Your first day you are told about someone to look out for... it quickly rings true.
429. Anyone have a stalker?
430. You look forward to Spring when the Racoons will come back to entertain you.
431. You read "You know you go to AU" and that is how you realize there is an ATV.
432. Friends that go to other colleges refuse to visit you because they don't want to get on the shuttle.
433. You know the complete sexual history of your Lit Professor, although you don't know why she told you.
434. To make your classes more convient, they put them in Watkins.
435. You know that when they say that Leonard and Hughes are closed for breaks, it really just means that there is no one at the front desk, and you can get in anyways.
436. The mail won't come on Saturdays.
Submitted by Justin:
437. Your next door neighbor's room was ransacked during a drug bust.
438. You have more drug dealers than friends.
439. You've considered the idea you have cholera after using your mealplan.
440. You're willing to wait until 8 PM to eat because that's when Chic Fil A starts letting you use meals.
441. You stop noticing the smell on the sixth floor.
442. Vomit is just something to step over.
443. You know at least three people who have gone to the hospital with alcohol poisoning.
444. Your friends hunted down Jim Breur after his concert and offered to smoke him up.
445. You've seen more weed than exists in all of Amsterdam pass into people's lungs inside a semester.
446. You know that if you buy cigarettes with EagleBucks they're cheaper at the Nest.
447. You've ever said SDT instead of STD.
448. You think of someone not from the Northeastern United States as a novelty.
449. You don't think not seeing daylight for two weeks is strange until you go home.
450. You've been told to go to a hospital that you have absolutely no idea where it is when Sibley is a mile down the road.
Submitted by Emily:
451. Everyone knows who Bob Nardo is.
452. The College Republicans throw better parties than the frats.
453. You have drunken debates about politics at least once a weekend.
454. You've gotten into Passports numerous times using your AU ID, which clearly proves that you're 21.
455. You're on a first name basis with the sketchy Passports bartenders.
456. Instead of having posters of Brad Pitt or Ben Affleck on the walls, your friends plaster the walls with pictures of George Bush and Dick Cheney.
457. You've experienced "that Guapo's feeling."
458. Ten different cell phones go off during every class.
459. You'll go to anything that has free food or a free t-shirts.
460. Girls only wear sweatpants with writing on the ass.
461. You go to a protest, peace vigil, Gucci store, tanning salon and frat party all in the same day.
462. You've flashed a large group of men shouting "We want boobies!" during Primal Scream. The next day you attended the Feminist majority meeting.
463. You call housing and dining for help with room draw, only to find out that they know nothing about housing OR dining.
Submitted by Debbie:
464. Your friends move off campus and you never see them again.
465. Campus security involves flashing anything that remotely resembles the ID card at the RD, but only when they keep asking to see it.
466. The "causeheads" live in the capitol of the USA, but their protesting only involves putting a sign on their door, skipping class and laying down in the MGC.
467. None of your professors actually work here...they're all adjuncts who have never taught before.
468. The gardeners make more money than these adjunct professors do.
469. 6th floor Anderson kids go to 6th floor Letts to tear shit up, and vise versa.
470. Your eaglebucks keep mysteriously diminishing....
471. Your stoner neighbor who doesn't leave his room and fails all his classes still manages to keep coming back.
472. You get busted because of a noise complaint even before the semester starts.
473. You meet your drug dealer and your new drinking buddies in JAM sessions.
474. You proceed to drink and smoke with your new dealer and drinking buddies before and after your JAM sessions.
475. You know who the Tenley Punks are.
476. You know that despite how tough the Tenley Punks pretend to be, you notice that half of them go to your school.
477. You'll do whatever it takes to go to Steak n' Egg.
478. You've puked in the parking lot of Steak n' Egg.
479. You've seen people piss in the LA Quad.
480. You've pissed out your window onto the LA quad.
481. You can spot the undercover cops at the Tenley Mini-Mart.
482. Most of your Econ professors are actually socialists, and all they're trying to do is teach you that capitalism is evil.
483. All the clubs in DC are really lame, but you go anyways because there's nothing else to do.
484. At these lame clubs, you spend $12 on a 40. Why? Because there's nothing else to do.
485. You have at least one friend whos a vegetarian, one whos a vegan, one whos a pescatarian, one whos a fruititarian, or whatever the hell is trendy that week.
486. You later seem them at Steak N' Egg eating off the same grill that had lard and bacon on it.
487. Living in DC makes you appreciate living back home.
488. You feel safer walking alone in Manhattan at 3 AM than you do in SE at anytime.
489. You come from the city that never sleeps to the city that goes to bed before your grandma does.
Submitted by Rachelle:
490. You wake up to find vomit outside of your door on the honors floor.
491. It's 72 degrees one day and snows for 6 hours on the next day.
492. You consider going to Guapo's or Angelico's a "night out on the town."
493. You see your friends dressed in formals and riding the Metro.
494. All your pants have been ruined by "Metro Mark."
495. The only time you venture to Dupont Circle is to take a prospective student to Cosi's.
496. You rejoice over the news Cosi's in Friendship Heights because now you don't have to take your prospective all the way to Dupont Circle to have some smores.
497. You see large group of provocatively dressed women going out, without men.
498. You eat pizza while watching porn--as a university sponsored event.
499. You regularly go shopping in TDR.
500. You have ever ordered groceries on peapod.com.
501. You have had to walk up the stairs to the 3rd floor of Ward for class because someone from the Provost's office wanted the elevator to themself (who pays $35,000 here?!).
502. Your school spends more on flowers than books for the library.
503. You know whether the Anime Club or Chi Alpha was more popular in the terrace of Ward on a certain Friday night.
504. You actually have a theory on why all the basements at AU are called terraces.
Submitted by Julie:
505. You sit in the computer lab, with a paper due in 2 hours, and turn on AIM before anything else.
506. All your computer and network passwords are the same but you still can't log in.
507. You think it's a right to talk on your cell phone in the computer lab.
508. You see someone throw a chair out of a fifth story window only to discover later it's your RA.
509. You've had the urge to throw a chair out of a fifth story window onto the frat/sorority singing in the LA Quad.
510. You've been woken up in the morning by a bagpiper parading through the LA quad.
511. You walk five steps and you are on the other side of the campus.
512. Yet you complain about how you have class "all the way over in Ward."
513. You praise that we go to a school thats 99% "out-of-state" like it is an achievement.
514. People look at you like your weird when you say your major is something other than poly-sci, international studies, or law.
515. Your advisor fails to mention a prerequisite for a class, pushing your graduation date back by a year.
516. You've spent 2 hours going to 20 different offices to figure out where HR sent your paycheck this week.
517. You're on the phone and even the person you're talking to can hear your neighbor having sex.
518. You finally move off campus and realize that almost all of the people in your building are from AU (and you don't even live in Tunlaw or the Berks).
519. You became an expert at smuggling handles of Tenley brand Vodka into the dorm within the first two weeks of your freshman year.
520. You've removed the ceiling tiles in your room and found strange stuff left behind by the people who lived there last year.
521. You've waited for hours before your pizza actually showed up.
522. You avoid in front of Mary Graydon during SC election time like the plague.
523. One of the SC candidates manages to accost you anyway, and then mocks you when you put his quarter-sheet in your pocket rather than reading it.
524. You've gotten lost while driving in DC and discovered that all roads lead to Anacostia.
525. You've gone out drinking with your professors and think it's completely normal until your friends from other schools inform you that it's not.
Submitted by Megan:
526. You know at least one person that writes for benladner.com or has posted an opinion on benladner.com.
527. You don't remember half the people on your buddy list yet they are still on your buddy list.
528. Those people frequently IM you.
529. you didn't know that there was a music or and art building till you had to walk there.
530. Your parents frequently ask you if you have met anyone from NPR.
531. Your school radio station is on tv and your school takes credit for 88.5 WAMU when it is actully an NPR station.
532. When you say you are from Maine people atomatically asume that you come from the middle of no where and that it snows all the time.
533. You try to explain to these people that Southern Maine is alot diffrent then central Maine.
534. You go to the movies with your friends you sit next to a cute guy who talks to you but then drops a comment of how he never goes anywher without a male escort.
535. This comment then makes you wonder if there are any straight men in DC (again, that's me, page creator, straight and single!).
536. You are upset when you actully have to go into the city, even though this is the main reason you came to AU.
537. You have checked out the BU website because the link is at the bottom of the page and you would rather read this then a stupid book assigned by your professor which you really don't have to read anyway.
Submitted by Carlos:
538. The walls of your dorm building are littered with posters from "little/big week" for several sororities and fraternities.
539. Sororities with nasty nicknames give even nastier nicknames to their new pledges.
Submitted by Kat:
540. You know who trenita is and you think she would make a better president of the SC/University/United States.
541. You shit your pants when you find out that AU is a dry campus.
542. You call your friend who lives on your floor one each others cell phones "just to see what's up."
543. You also shit your pants when you find out that AU is going to be a smoke free campus..... and then you contemplate transferring.
544. You think about transferring almost daily.
545. Everyone you know thinks about transferring.
546. You always have one weird "local" kid from "here in dc" in each of you classes.... they always seem to have an odd odor as well.
Submitted by Daniel:
547. You know 10 people that didn't get accepted as RA's, and they were all qualified straight girls.
548. Your RA got the job because he/she was gay/black/a guy and underqualified.
549. You, and/or half the people you know got rejected from Georgetown.
550. You know more openly gay frat boys than anyone thought existed.
551. Your theatre has only one dressing room for both sexes, divided for the curtain.
552. You know the DPA exists but you think they only have 100 and 200 level courses.
553. You've never met a theatre major.
554. You're only interested in politics or International Relations.
555. You wonder how Econ majors can do the math.
556. Davenport is the only place where you can get decent tea.
557. Your professors are well respected in their field, but they treat anyone who disagrees with them as stupid.
558. You have ever joined a co-ed fraternity.
559. You know that APO (Alpha Phi Omega) people are only doing it for their own resumes.
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