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34 EIU Things We Love To Hate And Hate To Love

Get me back to Charleston now!

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34 EIU Things We Love To Hate And Hate To Love

Everyone experiences the point in summer where they're fed up with their hometown and it becomes a physical NEED to be back at school to FSU. Being degenerate college students is in our blood and there's something special about The Chuck that will always have a place in our hearts. Here's a list of stuff about EIU that we love to hate and hate to love.

E-I-E-I-E-I-U! #BleedBlue



1. Being completely independent again

2. We have too much money in our bank accounts that need to be spent on cheap vodka and dollar beers at the bars

3. (Speaking of dollar beers...) Tuesday Trivia

4. Football tailgates

5. BEER BREAKFAST

6. Late night pizza

7. Marty's...duh

8. Ike's...duh

9. Stu's...duh

10. Chubby's sticks

11. Jimmy Johns for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

12. Los Potrillos monster margaritas for "special amigos" only

13. Old Main and pictures in front of it

14. Homecoming with returning alumni - That's right, we're looking at you, Jimmy G

15. Broken shoes, hearts, and bottles everywhere

16. Java B&B

17. Sleepovers with bffs

18. Syllabus week or in reality, syllabus month

19. Insane traffic on Lincoln Ave

20. Pledges that are DD's

21. Functions at Mother's

22. Cops literally at every street corner

23. Gavina Graphics

24. GREEK WEEK!

25. Coles County Animal Shelter

26. Stevo breakfast

27.Bogus parking tickets

28. Irreversible damage to our livers

29. Completely dead campus life until 1 or 2pm on the weekends

30. Intramurals

31. Overplayed music in shitty frat houses

32. Pics on the panther at Marty's

33. Baseball, soccer, rugby games

And most of all....

34. Being reunited with our friends after going months without seeing them!


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