1. The fact that I can read Student Life and pretend it’s the real news. 2. Center Court fried okra 3. Every night of the week I could attend some free event and/or program if I looked hard enough. 4. I know people who triple majored in three years. 5. The architecture on campus-only when I speak to visitors (“this place is beautiful”) do I actually stop and appreciate it. 6. I was here before the bunny. 7. Intramural Co-Ed Inner Tube Water Polo 8. It’s not in a big city but is driving distance from a big city (only 5 hours to Chicago). 9. Sitting in Graham Chapel by myself. 10. That Weird Smell as you exit the Greenway path onto Kingsbury… I’ve grown somewhat accustomed to it and now, oddly, look forward to it. 11. The fact that Kingsbury, Pershing, and Washington Avenue are just Koenig, Ruby, and Lee two years later. 12. The echo spot in the middle of the Campus Y courtyard. 13. The Hot Rock 14. The fact that you can avoid the Quad if you want. 15. The fact that you can avoid the Bakery if you want. 16. Ragtime (Music 109), the easiest course in five states. 17. Where else could I have dinner with someone from Kuwait, Springfield, Missouri, and Seattle? 18. Sam, the old guy with the huge white beard and the plastic bags. 19. Dr. Katz, the physics professor who runs EVERYWHERE. 20. The school’s big enough that you keep meeting new people, but small enough that the rumors come back around like boomerangs. 21. The fact that I’ve never really “needed” anything at Bear Necessities. 22. The guys who bring the giant bricks to the basketball games. 23. “Chunder,” the track team’s midnight running/ drinking fest. Running and drinking beer intermittently. Gotta love it. Unless they puke on you. 24. Bonita and Arthur at Holmes Lounge… the nicest people anyone will ever meet. 25. That whole “people respect a degree from this institution” thing. 26. Making money through psychology experiments (you want me to stare at the screen until I see a what?) 27. The fact that our Law School is “Anheuser-Busch” Hall. 28. The jocks, the nerds, the activists, the lazy potheads, the transfer students, the ultimate frisbee-ers, Mama’s Pot Roasters, the engineers I’ll never see, those kids on my freshman floor I have weird stories about, professors who’ll drink with students, Admissions receptionists, commuter students (computer students?), Matty Klein, Sex Week, and people who read Student Life columns all the way to the end.