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You know you went to Radford University if...

I just got a fun forward from a friend of mine who attended Radford University. Every university has something like this, but I thought I'd put this one out here for all our RU readers.

If anyone has a similar one for Virginia Tech or any of the other schools in the area, please write them in the comments area for all to see. And if any of you RU alums or students take issue with any of these or want to explain the inside joke to those of us who didn't go to RU, please tell us those things, too.

You know you went to Radford University if:

  • You have ever walked home from a party drunk and used the blinking red light on top of Muse to find your way back to campus.
  • You ever went to a Mardi Gras party. In a basement.
  • You went to your 8 a.m. class in your pajamas or, even worse, in the same clothes that you went out in the night before.
  • You know the difference between the "light side" and "dark side."
  • You sold your books back to the book store two weeks after class starts for money.
  • Ruth kicked you out trying to sneak into Muse.
  • Ruth caught you trying to sneak somebody into Muse.
  • You have ever drunk an unknown Kool-Aid beverage mixed out of a plastic trash can.

  • You know what Crusties are and you f***ing love them.
  • You get a drunk in public or underage possession ticket from the Radford police before you graduate.
  • The weekend ended on Wednesday and begins on Thursday.
  • Your dry erase marker is stolen. Yet you have a whole pile of them in the clothes you wore to the party the night before.
  • You have a random X on your face, yet a faded one on your hand in the morning when you go to class.
  • You bring your own cup wherever you go.
  • You've ever stolen (or had the strong desire to do so) one of those damn golf carts, even if only for a few minutes!
  • You start drinking at your 4 o'clock class to get ready for happy hour because everyone else is already there.
  • You have -- more than once -- beat the living hell out of someone for the STD rumors.
  • You have had a drunken rampage at Joe's.
  • You battled the cold for a Slurpee at 7-11.
  • You've walked in the snow from the light side to the dark side for a party.
  • You've tubed down the river with the motto: "Don't just throw your beer cans in the water, Fill 'em up first so they sink to the bottom."
  • You pop the screen out of your window, turn on the fan so it blows toward the window, use a towel to block the crack in the door and smoke so you don't have to go out in the ice storm.
  • You get a nickname that lasts forever from one drunken night.
  • You have gotten parking tickets because you are too hung over to move your car by 7 a.m.
  • You base directions off of the 7-11.
  • You are getting used to Milwaukee's Best "BEAST" and you don't mind actually drinking it daily.
  • You've used instant messenger instead of drunk dialing -- and it worked.
  • You've signed a beer pong table.
  • You've partied in the basement of the "bomb shelter."
  • Every Monday the fountain was turned off because it was spewing suds.
  • When you hear "Quadfest," a big grin appears on your face and thousands of stories come to mind.
  • You've seen girls walk to a party from Muse to the dark side in the snow in a halter top and black pants.
  • You've read all of these and are like, hell yeah -- with a huge smile on your face!

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