My Digital Marketing class crowd-sourced this list. What would you add? Tell us in the comments.
[Fill in the blank] You know you’re a Badger when _______________________________.
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You’ve put your arms around strangers and sang Varsity on game day.
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You’ve risked being late to an exam so you could detour to rub Abe’s foot for good luck.
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You can’t wake up for a 9:30 class, but you have no problem getting up at 7:00 on gameday.
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Half of your laundry load always consists of the color red.
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You wake up to the sound of “Jump Around” on Game Day.
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You go to the KK and Chasers every weekend.
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When you sing “Sweet Caroline” at every social gathering.
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You are traveling somewhere and you recognize someone wearing badger gear and immediately become great friends.
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You high five strangers in the airport wearing Badger gear.
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You become overwhelmingly excited when “Jump Around” comes on.
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When deep fried cheese curds are a staple in your diet.
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You’ve contemplated invited Bucky to your wedding someday.
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You don’t know the meaning of turn down.
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You’ve pulled an all-nighter at College.
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You’ve gotten lost in humanities.
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You work hard and play hard.
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The Terrace is your happy place.
- When you have a Wisconsin W gibbet on your Crocs.
158 responses to “You know you’re a Badger when…”
when half your wardrobe is red
You’ve gone to a bonfire at picnic point
You go to the farmer’s market every Saturday when it is outdoors
You have to plan when you go to the serf, otherwise it gets way too crowded
The 80 is never on time
Your son decides to go to UW and you get to live your college years all over again.
You look forward to Welcome Week each year for free meals for the first couple of weeks of Fall semester.
You will go to a Badger football game no matter how cold or crappy the weather.
when you’ve eaten giant pancakes at Mickey’s on game day despite the wait because you just have to.
“Jump Around” gets you more pumped up than any other song in existence.
You wear a shirt that is red and says “Badgers” on it..
You have extra meals on the weekends and they include Ian’s, Qdoba, or Paul’s Pelmeni
You know what it’s like to take over State Street celebrating the win of a basketball game.
When winning and losing results in a big party
You know your a Badger when you sing Varsity and wear red even though you never went to school at UW Madison.
Your exam OOTDs are head to toe badger sweats
Your go-to brunch spot is the sunroom
If you need something to wear before going out, you go to state street and have no problem picking something out from urban etc…
You somehow make it to class (and out on the weekends), even when walking in 3 feet of snow and blistering cold conditions
When the thought of climbing Bascom Hill isn’t appealing.
When the sight of maize and blue makes you want to puke.
You crave Chasers Fried Pickles & Greenbush all day, every day
You’ve never lived within 1.5 hours of Madison, but never miss a game!
You think of Sellery as the one of the greatest living experiences ever
No matter where you are in the world, anyone wearing the Badger W is your best friend.
when you go to a different city and do not understand why it takes longer than 5 minutes to have Jimmy johns delivered
You get lit every weekend
you use “go badgers” as a response to anything and everything
When you get the chills at the opening football video at Camp Randall!
when you walking to school in a snow storm and classes are still on……
The letter “O” suddenly has significantly more meaning to you.
When your motto is Work Hard Play hard
When you’re from Minnesota but HATE the gophers
You’ve adopted “work hard, play hard” as your life motto.
You know you’re a Badger when…. “Eat Shit” & “Fuck You” are not seen as an insult.
you do all of your Christmas shopping at The University Bookstore.
You, and everyone else you know who graduated from UW, is a proud alumnus.
When walking up Bascom in the snow feels normal
Construction around Memorial Square/Mall is never finished.
you know you are a badger when you have to go thru eight construction projects to get to Camp Randall.
a 5th quarter follows everything you do!
You’ve had a breakfast sandwich at Tagg’s
when you’ve witnessed a homeless man on state street get in an argument with his luggage
15 minutes is not enough time to go from humanities to ag hall…so many hills.
You take shifts with your friends to save the prime spots at College Library during midterm and exam season.
you understand what “shame on x01” means
you can’t remember the last time Minnesota won Paul Bunyan’s axe
You skip classes to study for other classes. And then skip the other classes to study for the first class.
Give Mando an A professor!!!!
When deep fried cheese curds are a staple in your diet.
you first walk into a lecture of 350 and think “this is bigger than my graduating class was”
When you have climbed on Abe to take a picture
when you know that #rosesarered
You can’t bring yourself to wear anything but red on Saturday