Alumni: 7 signs you are not willing to let go of LUC

1. You are still in all the LUC Facebook groups

You always have at least one notification on Facebook: LUC Central, AvB Housing, LUC GED, LUC Bring-Back-AkBar, Bob for Fortuna Chair. Should you check these groups every time you get a notification? Probably not. But you might miss something, right? What if they finally found out who threw the watermelon? What if teachers are arguing again? What if LUC News finally posted a new article? Maybe you can tag an old LUC friend and have a laugh, and maybe cry a bit!

2. You still fight with people under Confession Bear posts

This page really shouldn’t concern you anymore. It’s not even called Confession Bear anymore. You don’t know any of the people commenting anymore. You don’t even know what the posts are about anymore. But it’s just too much fun, and all these people need to know your opinion, so hit them with a Trump-wall of text ALL IN CAPS, and let the notifications roll in!

3. You wear your LUC hoodie everywhere you go

You bought the hoodie of your new university. But it’s just not the same. The LUC one is so comfortable and is still covered in stains from dinners you had with your LUC friends. Every time you find an instant noodle in your pocket it brings back such great memories.

4. You constantly complain about how LUC was so much better than your master's/internship/job

Your fellow students/colleagues think they have a high workload? Pfff, you did this in a third of the time while at LUC ...and you were fine. Well, maybe you cried a bit sometimes… maybe not just a bit… maybe not just sometimes. But that’s not relevant right now. You sigh deeply and remember getting pushed in a shopping cart along the hallways of AvB and wondering if the glass wall will stop you or if this is it. Gr8 times.

5. You spend all your time talking to people from LUC

Who needs new friends when Facebook and Skype are a thing? New people wouldn’t even understand how important Fortuna is (very important!). Making time for them is simply not worth it, so you just revisit a long-dead Peace group chat, your 3rd year housing group or just hit up your old AvB neighbour who is taking an extended “personal internship” to find herself in Vietnam.

6. You go back to AvB whenever you can

You tell yourself you definitely don’t do this because you miss it. It’s just for the free wifi. Using the gender-neutral bathroom is also pretty convenient; it's free and it's clean. And the occasional party you attend at AkBar (or Coasters, as the first years have to call it) is definitely only for the cheap alcohol. Hanging around the floor parties is also just an occasional thing that happened once, and staking out the entrance to AvB for old friends is totally not something you do.

7. You just can’t stop dreaming of Jos Schaeken

Yes he is gone - he is back to being a regular professor of Slavic languages, but how does he always find his way into your dreams? Colorful fantasies of Jos strutting down the halls of a baby AvB, still with an access to the roof. You two lay back on the roof, pop open a bottle of wine, and lay back to talk about student representation (spoilers - it will never happen). Then he takes your hand, and you look into his eyes and mention increasing socio-economic diversity, he nods enthusiastically. But you wake up and you realize it was all just in your head, and you will never feel cold chills as you see Jos smoking a cigarette on the terrace ever again.

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