As college students, we’ve all experienced some awkwardness during our years of higher education. It seems though, that Notre Dame culture provides for some extra awkward moments. From strained gender relations to dining hall dilemmas, here are a few awkward moments unique to the Notre Dame experience:

1. When you walk back to your dorm alone at midnight on a weekday in a sea of couples doing the parietals walk.
2. When you make dinner plans with someone from another quad and you have to subtly convince them your dining hall is better.
3. When the mood at parties is depressing after a football loss.
4. When you have to check the map in Debart at the start of a new semester.
5. When you try to use the side door of your dorm after parietals and you can’t figure out why your ID isn’t working.
6. When you see your RA out at Feve or a party and you don’t know whether to avoid eye contact or run in the other direction.
7. When you walk into a building and your cheeks are bright red and your eyes are watery from the wind.
8. When you spend all your flex points in the first month and have to beg from others for the rest of the semester.
9. When you accidentally step on the grass in God Quad or walk up the steps of the Main Building and you become low-key paranoid about your graduation progress.
10. When you walk out of a dorm of the opposite-sex at 9:05 a.m. on Saturday morning and you’re not fooling anyone.
11. When you try to take two bananas out of the dining hall and get scolded by the greeters.
12. When you constantly have to explain to people from other schools that you don’t have a Greek system and instead have single-sex dorms.
13. When you spend 15 minutes wandering around The Huddle trying to figure out what to buy, but all you end up leaving with is a handful of stolen candy.