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You Know You Go To CMU When...

You Know You Go To CMU When...

You've lived or know someone who's lived in a big blue bathroom.

You laugh at people who check their email indoors.

You confuse all the sororities for a giant laundromat.

You know where the "Stairs of Increasing Gravity" are.

You've eaten human cake.

TBA means porn.

Avant gard means two guys in monkey suits playing techno music riding bicicyles.

The biggest evolution on campus was wireless ethernet.

Your best friend bought a Mac and you haven't spoken to her since.

You've gone sledding on Highlander trays.

You can rollerblade from one end of a hallway to the other without moving a muscle.

"movie" and "man sex" are UNIX commands.

You've fallen asleep in the Airport Lounge.

You go to Health Services and the nurse is signed onto AOL Instant Messenger while she examines your throat.

You've hacked the Purnell projector.

A pickup line you've heard is "check out the laptop on that one".

You can prove by induction that elephants can fly.

You know that going to CMU means you know how to stalk people.

Your silverware consists of stolen goods from Highlander.

The largest drawing sporting event is hacking the announcment LCD screen at Purnell.

You know a "small" fry is a week's worth of potatoes.

There's a mooning statue.

The crime and incident reports are the most exciting part of the student newspaper.

You know someone's a freshman when they say "There's a mall on campus??"

You own a red red hat hat.

The highlight of your day is seeing a girl.

You know yellow bricks are the best bricks.

It seems that everyone you know is a CS major.

The odds are good, but the goods are odd.

You wish they'd let you reprogram the Wean elevators.

You live in a city with five other universities, yet you never see anyone from any of them.

Your professors tell you to go to Pitt to take your language classes.

You see people guarding the fence with their laptops in hand.

You can get to the seventh floor of Wean from the second floor of Doherty without going down.

You've scaled the Cathedral of Learning.

You've walked by the church where the last scene of Dogma was filmed.

The library is made of aluminum.

Historically, in any given CS class, the Dave to girl ratio is > 1.

Your favorite hangout spots are determined by the layout of the power outlets.

You have a class where the opening scene of Wonderboys was filmed.

Downtown is dead. But the outskirts are rockin'.

When you go to Lu Lu's, you know everyone there.

You know more about computers than the computing service personnel.

Fake Plastic Trees is not just a Radiohead song.

You've stopped at the non-stop stop sign.

You know someone with two majors and five minors.

Everyone plays guitar.

Nobody plays drums.

You don't know what building Warner Hall is.

You've taken the class that gives CMU it's zip.

You forget what sunlight is.

You don't have time to go to class.

You worry that your CS homework is going to blow up if you do something wrong...BOOM!!!

There are more computers than students, staff, and faculty.

Your school colors are spelled P-L-A-I-D.

Your friends are from Long Island, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania.

Your favorite passtime is stalking away messages (and/or profiles).

You can watch people swim while you stuff your face.

You've spent all night in a Wean cluster.

Your Econ professor accidentally emailed everyone in the class with the social security number and grade of everyone in the class...

Fact: Some of the elevators in the dorms are older than the school.

Your biggest plans for Mid Semester break are reformatting your harddrive and installing Windows 2000.

You live in a former mansion.

Your plan for halloween is to dress up as the linux kernel.

Your idea of school spirit is joining the other five people at the football game.

You've seen or been involved in some combination of Robosoccer, Robojoust, and Mobot.

Half your classmates are robots, and that's how it's supposed to be.

You'd have a car if there was a parking spot for it.

You have a pizza party to do matrix homework.

You haven't gone to the Holiday.

Your school offers a class on Information Warfare.

More people can recite Monty Python's Holy Grail than can recite the National Anthem.

You refer to classes by number.

You know Maggy Mo refers to at least four different places on campus.

You know Schenley Park is a scary place at night for reasons we will not specify.

Nobody posts to the CMU Daily Jolt forum because they use bboards.

There is a student publication named "README".

Guys wear skirts for school spirit.

You write a "You Know You Go To CMU When" list...

Your roomate also has a "You Know You Go To CMU When" list...