All Notre Dame students know that our school is a unique place. Outsiders may become extremely confused about some of our terminology. Here are some words that mean something very different to Notre Dame students than to everyone else:
1. RA
Everyone else: someone who cleans up puke and busts freshmen
Notre Dame Students: one of the nicest, most organized people you know
2. Air conditioning
Everyone else: something that keeps you cool when it’s hot
Notre Dame Students: a privilege for the lucky half of campus
3. Parietals
Everyone else: ???
Notre Dame Students: The bane of our existence or a good excuse to go to bed at a decent hour
4. Fishbowl
Everyone else: a home for fish
Notre Dame Students: more crowded during finals week than SDH at 12:30
5. Fever
Everyone else: when your temperature is above 98.6 degrees
Notre Dame Students: Michiana’s hottest night club
6. Salsa’s
Everyone else: a dip for chips
Notre Dame Students: the best thing South Bend has to offer on a Wednesday
7. Crossroads
Everyone else: a place where two roads meet
Notre Dame Students: the largest, most obnoxious construction project ever and we won’t even get to benefit from it
8. Hip Hop Night
Everyone else: a night of hip hop music
Notre Dame Students: a dark, sweaty, desperate place you frequented freshman year
9. Game Day
Everyone else: the day of a sporting event
Notre Dame Students: the most incredible 6 Saturdays of the school year
10. The Shirt
Everyone else: um, a shirt?
Notre Dame Students: the often disappointing uniform for every football game
11. Bookstore
Everyone else: a place to buy books
Notre Dame Students: a ripoff
12. Dining Hall
Everyone else: a place with subpar food
Notre Dame Students: a place with an overwhelming number of food options that always manage to get old by the end of the semester
13. Winter
Everyone else: a season
Notre Dame Students: the coldest, most miserable six months of the year that you can never seem to escape
14. Alumni
Everyone else: a graduate of a school
Notre Dame Students: a smelly boy’s dorm OR the cool, old people who takeover campus on game day and give you jobs when you graduate
15. Carroll
Everyone else: a woman’s name
Notre Dame Students: the last dorm you would ever go to except during Christmas16. Beach
18. Irish
Everyone else: people from Ireland
Notre Dame Students: a community of fantastic people and the best sport's mascot around
Go Irish!