You might be a Northeastern student if…

  • You are no longer a freshman, but aren’t really sure what year you are

  • Your math teacher speaks five languages… none of which are English

  • You claim to have helped Sean Fanning invent Napster

  • You know the phrase "come to our house" involves going to a bar

  • You've spent hours of your life trying to navigate a way out of the monstrosity known as Holmes/Nightingale/Meserve/Lake Hall

  • You smile when you see a girl with a red key chain

  • You recognize the entire staff of Huntington Liquors

  • You affectionately refer to Boston University's Agganis Arena as "The Toolbox"

  • You’ve said “Cappy’s or BHOP?” after a hockey game

  • You got drunk off of a Scorpion Bowl at Tiger Lily’s before you turned 21

  • You mourned when Chicken Lou died

  • You don’t know how to get to Parson’s Field

  • The very mention of the word "trimester" makes you shudder

  • You’ve rubbed the Husky’s nose for good luck before a final

  • You’re a senior, and you still don’t know how to navigate the tunnel system

  • It’s 2:01am, and you’re already walking towards Little Stevie’s

  • You refuse to go to Boston College unless you have someone to drive you

  • And you call Boston College it's proper name - the University of Chestnut Hill
  • At some point you’ve created your own parking space in the North Lot

  • Wait, Northeastern has a Dedham Campus/Ashland Campus/Greenhouse/Sculpture Garden?

  • You know someone who’s put laundry detergent in the Stetson East fountain

  • You know half a dozen shortcuts to Landsdowne St.

  • You can tell when the next E line train is going to arrive by counting the people standing on the platform

  • You’ve cut class at least once on a nice day to play softball in the Fens

  • The orange line intimidates you

  • You’ve forgotten that a box of cereal outside of Wollaston’s costs less than $5

  • You know the good party apartments only by numbers, not names

  • You ignore traffic and the T while crossing Huntington

  • You take pride in the fact that the NU Dog House road fan club makes just as much noise as the BU and BC home hockey crowds

  • You can tell a girl’s sorority by what type of Tiffany’s bracelet she wears

  • You don’t interrupt when people confuse your school with Northwestern

  • You know there is a difference between Beirut and Beer Pong, and you consider yourself an expert at both

  • You’ll skip your 9:15am Intro to Sociology, but not your scuba diving or yoga class

  • You live in Roxbury, but pay $35,000 a year to attend a private school

  • You liked the original Cappy's 1 better than the fancy new building they put up

  • You’ve seen the Laura Glyda Band and kept your ticket stub, knowing that they’re going to be famous

  • You know someone who’s jumped in the reflecting pool by the Christian Science Center

  • You've waved to sideways-bicycle guy

  • You’re comfortable with the terms “middler,” “co-op” and “no-op”

  • You’ve tried to guess the password to get into the NASA anti-gravitational room in the Egan Research Center

  • You consider “working out” reading a Vogue magazine on the Stairmaster without breaking a sweat

  • The idea of Kegs-n-Eggs sounds perfectly reasonable, especially on Marathon Monday

  • After three co-ops, you’ve made over $20,000, but managed to spend almost all of it living in Boston

  • You don’t understand why there are so many international students in the library at 2am

  • You think the phrase "Higher Tuition. Richer Freeland" is hilarious

  • You know we have the best-looking tour guides in Boston

  • And finally, you’ve killed countless hours on co-op reading TheFutureofAmerica.com