25 ways to know you’ve lived in dorms too long
January 23, 2007
Hilary MacPherson
(1) You start sounding/acting/breathing like
your roommate.
(2) Cleaning becomes the ultimate
procrastination.
(3) Highlighters become a
toy.
(4) Receiving mail is the
highlight of the week.
(5) Studying in the atrium is studying in silence.
(6) Your movie collection doubles from the time you move in.
(7) Walking from Northwest to Neufeld classifies as your
workout.
(8) Kiddy pools become cool again.
(9) You eat from the three basic food groups: ice cream,
cookies and French fries.
(10) The best entertainment is looking outside your window.
(11) ‘I’m going to the Lower Caf’ means the same as ‘I’m going out.’
(12) You will go to any function with ‘free food’ in the
advertisement.
(13) You’d rather kiss rocks than boys.
(14) Your lung capacity to scream is the same as those pre-teen girls in junior high.
(15) Websites like Youtube and Peekvid are visited more frequently than the TWU website.
(16) You’d rather talk to people over Facebook or Myspace versus phoning or meeting with them in
person.
(17) Sleeping has priority over being clean.
(18) Going to bed at 2:30 a.m. classifies as going to bed early.
(19) You wear earplugs as much as your wear earrings.
(20) You make friends with commuters just to get off campus.
(21) You go the toilet to get some alone time.
(22) Superheroes become ideals.
(23) Running around in the dorm in boxers morphs into running around campus in boxers.
(24) Video games are cool again.
(25) You know each security guard by name.
Now you go...
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