Hamilton is the the biggest thing on Broadway, and Spotify, these days, and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. The draw of Hamilton is that it takes seemingly unrelatable and distant characters such as Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and Thomas Jefferson, and turns them into rapping, hip-hopping, cool characters. After listening to the soundtrack for the umpteenth time, I started to realize that I know these people; I go to school with them.

Alexander Hamilton

This is the annoying upstart teenager who somehow got into college at 15 and knows everything. He's like a prodigy or something, but mostly he's just a pain in the ass. He's the kid who reminds the professor that homework was due and the one who ruins the curve for everyone else by getting a 100 on everything. You'd probably shoot him if you had the chance too.

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr is the kid who was a special snowflake star in his high school theatre program but has now come to college and realized that everyone is just as talented as him. You may have seen him as grip number four in the latest production of Rent. Yeah sure, he's a triple threat, but he has to work really hard for it, whereas people with natural talent seem to surpass him without really trying. He's definitely the dude who you wouldn't be surprised if they snapped one day.

Lafayette

Lafayette is the really hot international student who can't really speak English but nobody cares. He's the life of the party and is the coolest dude around. He'll break a lot of girls' hearts before ghosting everyone and going back to France. He'll probably end up being the really hot president that beats out Nazism.

Eliza

Eliza is here to get her Mrs. degree. She always looks super put together in Kate Spade and pearls everyday. She's always offering to tutor people in everything. She's super organized and never goes anywhere without her Day Designer. She never hooks up because she only has time for serious relationships. She's the girl in a frat basement with her cardigan tied around her shoulders sipping something from a solo cup that is probably water. All of the guys drool all over her though because she's definitely "wifey" material.

Angelica

Angelica is a WGS major and won't let anyone forget it. She's always marching and protesting for social justice and she's the only person on campus who actually goes to student government meetings. She's the girl who's so effortlessly cool that it's pretty intimidating. She definitely eats avocado toast and drinks only black coffee from local cafes. She's probably going to move to Amsterdam and live out her days biking by a canal smoking weed casually changing the entire world.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson is a hardcore b*tch. Thomas is always in everyone's business and probably posts mean things anonymously on Yik Yak. He also lets his dog poop on the sidewalk and doesn't pick it up because "his tuition pays for the custodial staff". He's a BEM major who's just biding his time until he can become the president of Daddy's company, but he's gonna make everyone's life miserable until he gets there.

George Washington

George is the RA who has had ENOUGH. He's been an RA for so long that he basically invented the policy, and he follows the rules but is still cool AF. He's always trying to get more funds from the school to buy pizza for his residents, and he also bought an Xbox for the hall. Res Life saw what a good job he was doing and gave him a new assignment that is way over his head. George is just trying to make it through this year before he ghosts and becomes a regular student again.

King George

George wants to Make America Great Again. He's the guy who's a low-key racist and everyone who has any sense is so over him. He's always posting problematic articles on Facebook. He's rich AF and has been so sheltered his whole life that he has no idea that the world has progressed past the 1950's. He probably writes op ed articles for the school newspaper mansplaining why mansplaining isn't really a thing. He's mad, TBH.

Good luck ever listening to Hamilton the same way again!