Top 25 ways you know you've been at Evansville to long
This list appeared on some of the UE newsgroups a while ago, and has been added to a little bit. It's full of in-jokes, but most of them apply to college in general.
The original 25
25. Chat becomes a way of life
24. The funnest thing to do on a weekend is homework
23. You begin to quote the Tao Te Ching
22. You begin to categorize people into Dante's different levels
of hell
21. You're so bored you clean your room
20. You will actually fight another person for a washer or dryer
19. All other activities in your dorm cease to exist on Thursday
nights do to Friends and ER
18. The Thursday night movie becomes your sole reason for living
17. You look forward to the World Culture movies and lectures and you
stay awake
16. You think that Ralph (the WC 101 & 102 book) is interesting and you
read it in your spare time
15. Your all your friends call you at the library
14. It's no longer a pool, but a natatorium
13. You have your own exercise bike at the fitness center and you
will actually fight other people for it
12. You and your friends begin running your laps on the tiny indoor
track
11. You have a specific day/time that you make a Super K run
10. You refer to the people on chat as your "real friends"
9. You camp outside the Great Hall all night waiting for housing sign-ups
8. Mail becomes your life
7. The security guards at the labs know you by name (because they have
to politely tell you that the labs are closing EVERY night)
6. You call Papa John's and ask for the usual, and they know
who you are and what it is
5. You join the roller-blading club
4. You've named all the squirrels
3. You include the work-site outside of Morton as a landmark
2. You say you're going home and you mean your dorm room, not where
your parents live
1. You can't get enough chicken at Upper Harpers
Some more added after the fact
26) You know most of the buildings on campus by names that are no longer
official.
27) The school grants you tenure as a student.
28) You can't count all your roommates on your hands.
29) You remember the school before it had the internet.
30) You're still in the habit of calling Grantham Hall New. (or does this
come under #26?)
31) You know exactly how long it will take purchasing to cut off your
access code if you don't pay your phone bill.

John Jetmore / jj33@pobox.com