If you have been a resident in Laws Hall, one thing is clear: you will love to hate it, and hate to love it. It is the place where you hang out with friends before a night out, snuggle with your girls while watching Friends, or watch hockey games with the boys when you wanna stay in. It is the place where you come home from your classes to plop down on your bed for a few hours. It is the place with the bad water pressure in the showers and the poorly lit hallways. It is the place where you spend every day of your first year of college. Although the building, itself, sucks, it becomes a part of you and your college experience. Here is a list of a few things you might have experienced during your time as a Laws Hall resident.

1. The fire alarm went off at least four times during the school year past 3 a.m. on a school night.

2. Your clothes were never dry when taking them out of the dryer

3. Chances are, one elevator is always broken or smells worse than that girl in your English class that never wears deodorant.

4. Jake the ROTC RA: I could say a lot of things but I will leave it at that.

5. Getting the email that you got a package was literally the best day of your life.

6. Taking the stairs was your version of a good workout.

7. You always hear stories about the people that died in your dorm in the past.

8. You might even be convinced your room is haunted.

9. You are probably allergic or always sick because of how old the building is.

10. You had to get used to swiping your friends and family in to pee on game days, and they almost always got yelled at for bringing alcohol in.

11. You will never get any studying done in your floor's lounge because there are always people talking too loud.

12. You will also never get any studying done at your desk in your dorm because you will either be distracted, or if you're anything like me, it's a stretch to even make room for your computer in your cluttered mess.

13. On the day of ROAR, you fought for a room that ended in 10 or 11 so you had one of the bigger end rooms.

14. You and your roommate sang old church songs from grade school -- or maybe that was just me and my roommate.

15. You would wait 30 minutes without complaining (or maybe just a li'l bit) for a plate of Dobbs Wok Wednesday.

16. Timeout cookie dough was the source of your Freshman 15.

17. You have your favorite shower, and if someone's in it, you don't shower.

18. You probably strolled to the bathroom for your morning pee and had to listen to someone vomiting in the toilet after a Wednesday night at Roxy's.

19. The fire alarm went off in the middle of your shower, so the whole residence hall got to see you in your towel wrap and shower shoes in the parking lot.

20. Laundry was a two to three hour process, depending on which machines you used. You learn quickly which ones to steer clear of.

21. Anytime you come home from a night of going out, someone will always be running outside to pick up their Gumby's pizza.

22. The day of the first safety checks, every freshman is frantically texting their roommates and friends to make sure every illegal item is hidden.

23. You probably had a shot glass stolen "because of residue inside of it" at least once during those checks.

24. You live in the best location on campus. A short walk home after a drunken night is worth the long walk to classes.

25. Your room either looks out onto Faurot Field or over Greek Town, so either way you've got a pretty good view of campus.

26. Your address is Tiger Ave. Woo, Miz, am I right?

27. That walk to chapter on Monday nights is five minutes, at the most. Thank God.

28. When it's nice outside, the best place to study is on the benches on the little decks.

29. During formal season, the sidewalks are all decorated with white spray paint from girls decorating coolers. Res Life loves it!

30. Write your name on your clothes so you can make sure you get them back when people borrow stuff. Just don't write your name on your underwear because your pledge sister might find it in the laundry room and send it in your Groupme.

31. Lots of notable, cool events have happened in the very same place you sleep at night!

32. If you don't get written up at least once, you are not living right.

33. You always complain about how much you hate Laws, but in reality, it actually holds a special place in your heart.

34. That girl that lives on the floor below you that was mean to you the first time you met her in a Beta sober driver car will actually end up being your best friend.

35. That "mandatory hall meeting on Wednesday night" was never actually mandatory.

36. You always have to wait outside Lathrop for five hours for your friends to let you in.

37. No matter how many times you turn the hallway lights on at night, they will always be off when you walk back outside your room.

38. There will always be hair in the shower no matter when you shower. Or stuck onto the walls. And the drain will probably be overflowing. Ugh.

39. When a girl on your floor's dad forgets to book a hotel so he sleeps in her room and the fire alarm forces her to walk out to the parking lot at 7 a.m. with a 50 year old "shacker".

40. The 1st floor button in the elevator STILL doesn't light up when you press it.

41. Some weird stuff goes down in Laws and Lathrop...such as a girl on your floor falling off the toilet and continuing to pee on the floor, hearing voices in your room when you're the only one in there, your medicine cabinet falling off the wall, someone getting staph infection from the shower, and someone's always pulling pranks.

42. But we still love to call this place home.

It is true that Jones (RIP), Laws, and Lathrop are the cheapest, oldest, and worst dorms on the entire campus, but oddly enough, none of us would want to live anywhere else for our freshman year. Laws, we'll be sad in a couple years to see you go, but we will always remember where we came from when we look at our pictures with the messy closets and wooden medicine cabinets in the background. Here's to you, Laws Hall. It's been real, it's been fun; it's actually been real fun.