1. Campion Breakfast
Nothing cures a hangover like some greasy bacon, rubbery eggs, and overcooked home fries. Can’t forget a nice, cold glass of water! And by water, I mean a lovely mix of H2O and lemonade. #brokensodamachines #thankscampion
2. The noisy people that lived above you
There is nothing more soothing than laying in bed, staring at your concrete ceiling, and listening to the loud thumps of the people living on the floor above you. What better time to have relay races than 1 a.m. on a Wednesday night?!? By the end of the year, the thumps sorta started to sound like a lullaby. (keyword: sorta)
3. Seeing your whole building in the laundry room
*walks downstairs at 11 p.m. wearing pajamas, no makeup, and a towel turban* It’s 11 p.m. on a Tuesday, no one will be down here!
*gets to laundry room and the whole entire population of Philadelphia is here, along with their parents, grandparents, cousins, godparents, and Barack Obama*
4. Walking up and down hills all day, every day
At SJU, something as simple as getting to class is turned into a small workout because of our beautiful-yet-hilly campus. Every day is leg day on Hawk Hill.
5. Trekking to a party in the freezing cold
It’s Friday night in February. You and your friends are getting ready to go out, all dressed in crop tops and leggings. The mom of the group turns to you guys with the weather app on her phone and nags, “You guys are going to be freezing!!” “We’ll be fine,” you say with an eye roll as you grab your fracket. The group heads out. As you guys are walking to the Mansion, the wind whips your cheeks and start to turn numb. Your hands are stuffed in your pockets, occasionally looking down at your phone to make sure you’re heading the right direction. You question why you do this to yourself and even start to consider turning around to go lay in your warm, cozy bed. But during the summer, as you lay in your warm, cozy bed, you can only wish to be back at SJU trekking through the snowy sidewalks on Wynnefield.
6. Shuttle rides
Typically, if you’re taking the East Shuttle, you’re doing one of three things: a Target run, a Chipotle run, or a Honeygrow run. Regardless of where you’re going, it will totally be worth it..even if it means getting a C on the paper you were supposed to be working on.
7. Communal bathrooms
When people think of communal bathrooms, they typically think of the following: shower shoes, hair caught in the sink drains, pee on the toilet seat, and a nauseating, ever-lasting odor that smells like a mix of warm pee and sewage. But many tend to forget the good that comes with communal bathrooms: blasting music while all you and all of your friends shower at the same time, applying face masks while gossiping, and drunken conversations every weekend with random people. I guess everything balances out somehow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
8. Yik Yak
At the beginning of the year, everyone yakked as if every yakarma point they got was equal a dollar towards tuition. There were yaks ranging from complaints about homework to addresses for the weekend. Towards the middle of the year, Yik Yak started to get quite annoying and started to die. But you never realized how dead Yik Yak could be until you came home, when the most recent yak was posted two weeks ago. Now you suddenly start to miss the numerous yaks about Campion shits and sexual frustration.
9. People-watching in Campion
C’mon, you know we all do it. You and your friends would fight over who gets the seat facing the door to see who comes in. Sometimes you’ll even extend your dinner, hoping that your campus crush will walk in. Was wafting in that luxurious Campion odor for an extra fifteen minutes worth that five second glimpse of the cute guy on your floor? (the answer is yes)
10. Your roommate ;)
You probably realized this the day you got home. At school, you would walk into your room and always have someone to talk to: always someone to vent about your horrible accounting teacher, reminisce about the creepy guy that tried to dance with you the previous weekend, or simply just ask for advice on an outfit. You always went to Starbucks together, got ready together, and maybe even scheduled a few classes together. Now, your roommate has been replaced with the stuffed animal that you have low-key slept with from first to twelfth grade. Technically, your stuffed animal can do anything your roommate did, without even putting up a fight! You might just get a few weird stares and strange looks if you do everything with an inanimate object rather than your roomie.
Now that it’s been a month and a half without them, we all have realized that these curses are just blessings in disguised; we all hate loving them! These are only a few things that make SJU home. Only 58 days until we’re back on Hawk Hill!
