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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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Run Around Clanging Pots and Pans in Everyone's Face

Eat the Last Few Pigs in a Blanket

Pop Twelve White Grapes

Burn Something

Smash Things Against a Wall

Spontaneously Begin an Irish Jig

Call Your Mother

Throw a Coffee Table Out a Window

Sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the Top of Your Lungs

Do Some Squats

Swan Dive into a Nearly Freezing Body of Water

Take a Shot

Time to be merry and bright.

"First Noel" by Leslie Odom, Jr

"A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Kelly Clarkson

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home" by Michael Buble

"Last Christmas" by Taylor Swift

"The Christmas Song" by Josh Groban

"White Christmas" by Idina Menzel

"O Holy Night" by David Archuleta

"Believe" by Josh Groban

"Les cloches du hameau" by Celine Dion

Or at least try to do.

1. I will wake up (sorta) on time for class.

2. I will look decent for class.

3. I will go to the gym more.

4. I will go to the library and study more.

5. I will meet new people.

For those long nights that turn into mornings when the struggle is real.

1. Walk in motivated and ready to rock

2. Disappointed you let it get this bad

3. Distracted: When a 10-Minute Break Becomes an Hour

4. When the Yearning for Sleep Sneaks Up

5. In the words of Lorelai Gilmore "Coffee, Coffee, Coffee"

Oh, so done.

You need sleep, but also have 13 things due in the span of 4 days.

1. When it's December 1 and you have seven things due, three exams, and haven't slept in three days.

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7. And really hungry.

8. Suddenly, it's 2 a.m. and you have only written three sentences and your paper is due in the morning.

9. You've made it to Friday... somehow.

10. Then Sunday hits and you find yourself back at the Lib.

11. So you cry some more.

12. But, you fight through the tears to get everything done because you're determined.

13. In the end, you feel on top of the world because you made it through the last week of class alive.

14. But, now it's finals week so good luck.

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