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18 Words That Mean Something Different To Notre Dame Students

Maddie Miller

Jan 18, 2016

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18 Words That Mean Something Different To Notre Dame Students

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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 Christmas

16. Beach

Everyone else: a beautiful, sunny place on the ocean

Notre Dame Students: a small strip of sand on St. Joseph Lake that’s too cold 99% of the year

17. The Rock

Everyone else: a former professional wrestler turned actor

Notre Dame Students: a place utterly lacking in workout machines

18. Irish

Everyone else: people from Ireland

Notre Dame Students: a community of fantastic people and the best sport's mascot around

Go Irish!

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3. Meredith Grey from "Grey's Anatomy"

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8. Mindy Lahiri from "The Mindy Project"

9. Lisa Cuddy from "House, M.D."

10. The "Friends" Girls (Monica Geller, Rachel Greene, and Phoebe Buffay) from "Friends"

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12. Kate Beckett from "Castle"

13. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles from "Rizzoli and Isles"

14. Olivia Benson from "Law and Order: SVU"

15. Robin Scherbatsky from "How I Met Your Mother"

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1. You are honestly kind of offended when people say you are a nice person

2. People think it’s cute when you act sassy

3. You always have people who annoy you but will not stop following you around

4. You often have trouble deciding how you want to present yourself to people

5. You have probably never actually hurt someone’s feelings

6. Finding friends is such a struggle

7. But actually, that is a joke because your flexible personality allows you to be friends with many people

8. You are secretly kind of (actually downright) jealous of queen bees, especially those from TV shows

9. You often read articles with titles such as “24 Reasons You're A Sasshole,” thinking they are going to be so relatable….

10. Sometimes you get really mad and wish you could actually come across as a total bitch…

11. …but at the end of the day, you are thankful for how nice you are

Every girl is guilty of number two.

You cut people off - fast!

Queen of Creeping.

When you need to let others know exactly who you are.

Making new friends is not an easy task.

You have no problem tellin' it like it is.

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You judge what other girls are wearing - hard.

Only your best friends see your emotions.

You've mastered the fake personality.

You have your very own Chuck Bass.

If your plans get cancelled, there is a 99.9% percent chance you are sleeping.

"There is only one tree hill, Jaime Scott."

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