You know when.

You know you're a Mines student when you go on a walk and talk and study about the Chemistry test that is later that day. You know you're a Mines student when you hate using scientific calculators and all you want is your wonderful TI-83 graphing calculator. You know you're a Mines student when you like Calculus 3 more than Calc 2. You know you're a Mines student when you just dont want to FAIL a test, a C is great! You know you're a Mines student when you when the words Lon-Capa come up and you quickly change the subject. You know you're a Mines student when you can find ways to remember the six forms of mechanical weathering using motions, hand signals, and strange voices-IMPACT, Abrasion (arch), Froooooost wedging, ROOT wedging, Salt (square) wedging, and UPLOADING (facebook!). It is hard to describe the motions and voices for those but trust me they were awesome. This brings me to my next one. You know you're a Mines student when you actually enjoyed studying. (Bailey and I had some awesome ways to remember things for our earth and environmental systems test! i.e. see above, as well as Felsic full, mafic minimal, Aa OUCH! sharp!, ferric-crimson, red ferric iron turns soil red, ferrous- shamrock green ferrous iron turns soil green, that rock as stripes it looks gneiss, shit that rock has particles that you can see, schist haha) Most of that probably made no sense but we remembered it for the test. And everytime the answer was one of those you couldnt help but smile :). You know you're a Mines student when you are so happy this week is almost over.