{"id":152,"date":"2007-03-19T22:29:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T05:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/you-know-you-go-to-sfu-when\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T22:31:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T05:31:44","slug":"you-know-you-go-to-sfu-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/you-know-you-go-to-sfu-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you go to SFU when&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen several of these on Facebook.  &#8220;You know you go to UBC when&#8230;&#8221;  &#8220;You know you&#8217;re from BC when&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;You know you&#8217;re Indian when&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t find an SFU one.  So, I&#8217;m taking suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>You know you go to SFU (Burnaby) when&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you know how to get between any two points on campus on a rainy day without getting wet.<\/li>\n<li>you know that &#8220;a rainy day&#8221; is synonymous with &#8220;a day&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>the people at Renaissance know your drink order before you say it.<\/li>\n<li>Parminder at Renaissance knows you by name.<\/li>\n<li>you longer wonder where floors 1-6 are.<\/li>\n<li>you can actually find the first floor in the AQ.<\/li>\n<li>you have even been stuck on the hill because of 1 inch of snow.<\/li>\n<li>you notice when people you don&#8217;t even know are studying in the wrong place, because they usually study over there [points].<\/li>\n<li>you have an opinion about the CFS&#8230; a STRONG opinion.<\/li>\n<li>heading for the bus stop, you look at your watch: if it&#8217;s 20 after, you kill ten minutes to wait out the bus rush.<\/li>\n<li>you have found yourself unable to remember significant parts of a Pub Night (or GIC Social).<\/li>\n<li>you have used a cafeteria tray to slide down the slopes near the gym after it snowed.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Purple Library Guy&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make you think of a lame superhero.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; you know Purple Library Guy&#8217;s story.<\/li>\n<li>you can talk about &#8220;the Clan&#8221; without thinking about white hoods and torches.<\/li>\n<li>you are surprised when you meet your TA and they speak English.<\/li>\n<li>you ever decided not to take a course so you wouldn&#8217;t have to come to campus on Tuesdays.<\/li>\n<li>you know every takeout place that delivers to campus.<\/li>\n<li>you know several people that ride up the hill but would never do it yourself&#8211;that&#8217;s crazy.<\/li>\n<li>you have had an argument on the various merits of study locations on campus.<\/li>\n<li>you&#8217;d go to your prof&#8217;s office hours, if you could only find their office.<\/li>\n<li>you can walk from the Skytrain to the 145 stop with your eyes closed.<\/li>\n<li>it would never occur to you to ask &#8220;which one&#8221; when somebody refers to a &#8220;pub&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s going to take you seven years to finish your undergrad, but you&#8217;re okay with that.<\/li>\n<li>you have &#8220;gone swimming&#8221; in the pond in the AQ.  Once.  Never again.<\/li>\n<li>you have spent five minutes looking for your car in the parking lot before realizing you&#8217;re on the wrong level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m out.  Please add more in comments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogthings.com\/wherefrom.html\">More for inspiration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen several of these on Facebook. &#8220;You know you go to UBC when&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;You know you&#8217;re from BC when&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;You know you&#8217;re Indian when&#8230;&#8221; I can&#8217;t find an SFU one. So, I&#8217;m taking suggestions. You know you go to SFU (Burnaby) when&#8230; you know how to get between any two points on campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}