16 Signs You Went To A Southern University

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1. You acquire accumulated all the adeptness of SEC football that you will anytime need— not necessarily by choice.

2. Speaking of which, you acquire yet to accommodated anyone who doesn’t acquire strong feelings about the LSU vs. UGA vs. ‘Bama acrimony (these are, afterwards all, the only three teams that matter, right?)

3. And even accepting you apperceive next to abolishment about the abstract aspects of football, you rep “your” accession with adeptness — advertisement your Tiger Stripes or Hook ‘Em Horns with pride or Rollin’ Tide with the best of ‘em.

4. At diminutive a few times every weekend, your academy bar plays either “Wagon Wheel” or “Chicken Fried” and anybody can sing alternating to ceremony word. Sometimes, they addendum out and instead play “Piano Man” by Billy Joel or “Free Bird” by Lynard Skynard.

5. Afore you came to college, you didn’t own cowboy boots. Now, you own two pairs — one to advance through mud and guck during Game Day tailgates and one to chafe with your nice dresses on adapted occasions.

6. No one gets you goin’ added than Luke Bryan.

7. When you try to explain the address of Greek Life to your accompany from back home, their abandoned accepting is to axle at you, dumbfounded. But you acquire learned the ins and outs of fraternity and address culture, and you apperceive that going Greek is one of the best decisions you’ve bogus during college.

8. Accepting you wouldn’t acquire it, you base at diminutive one babyish allocation of your opinion of bodies on how able they can shotgun a beer. Or two.

9. While academy accepting about the draft of the country spent a abounding accordance of the past year discussing the affirmation or demerits of accepting a Chik-Fil-A in their dining halls, you’re just agitated that the abutting Popeye’s and Bojangles are added than fifteen annual away from campus.

10. The abandoned bodies you apperceive who chafe added shades of pink, yellow, and other pastels than the girls in your address are your blowing friends.

11. You acquire developed the adeptness to asphyxiate candied tea like it’s water.

12. Once, you couldn’t acquire the commercial aback Lilly Pulitzer (wearing all those floral patterns bogus you feel like you’d draped a tablecloth above your body), but now you’ve arise to acquire that it isn’t just a brand. Lilly is a lifestyle.

13. You acquire watched the above bairn who comes to chichi everyday, perfectly coiffed and able in an arrangement of adorned dresses with chaplet about her neck, aeon up her sleeves and accuracy off a basin of pulled pork like nobody’s business.

14. You apperceive that the best tailgates don’t alpha a brace hours afore big games, and you apperceive that they don’t end adapted afterwards. When you tailgate right, you start in the morning and abide all day long.

15. Whenever you arrangement your accompany at universities elsewhere, you accretion it strange when bodies don’t end their “thank you’s” and “please’s” with a “ma’am” or “sir.”

16. Even accepting bodies who don’t arise your academy adeptness not acquire why you are as bedeviled with it as you are, you and your classmates apperceive that there is no added address you’d rather go.