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You Know You Go To Suffolk When…

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Suffolk chapter.

1. When you wait hours for the elevators in Sawyer.

2. When they cancel class at any sign there might be snow.

3. When your everyday perfume is the smoke outside of Sawyer.

4. When you get glares from the Beacon Hill residents as you are walking to class.

5. When you live in any of these 4 prime locations: Beacon Hill, The North End, Allston or Mission Hill.

6. When you spend half of your college career abroad.

7. When you crave a Chinese chicken and rice bowl from Donahue, and after wonder why you got it.

8. When you have to ask your roommates to go down to security to sign more friends in.

9. When you know everyone’s dirt just by reading @suffolkproblem.

10. When you try to get a salad from 73 and the line is out the door and around the corner.

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11. When the internet/blackboard is ALWAYS down.

12. When you find yourself sweating/freezing in any given classroom. There is no in between.

13. When you can never find a place to study in the Mildred Sawyer Library or if you do, there are students talking loudly on the quiet floor.

14. When you don’t like your roommate(s) and you can’t switch…sucks for you. 

15. When people ask you how your law degree is coming.

16. When most girls are more dressed up for an 8 AM class than you are on a Friday night.

17. When you overhear a conversation about how much someone’s Fendi bag costs.

18. When you walk through a colonial tour trying to get to class.

19. When you skip classes because you don’t want to walk up the hills in the cold.

20. When it takes more than one word to describe where Suffolk’s “campus” is located.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ellie Hawkins is a graduate of Suffolk University. She received a BA with Magna Cum Laude honors in print journalism. Ellie is an alumni of Theta Phi Alpha-Gamma Lambda chapter. During her time at Suffolk she was involved with The Suffolk Journal and the Journey Program. Journey is a leadership program that focuses on four focal points: leadership training, involvement, career exploration and service. She volunteered at the Paulist Center Soup kitchen and is still doing so today. Ellie recently went to El Salvador, in January, to help with Habitat for Humanity through her schools Alternative Winter Break program. Ellie enjoys photography, skiing, golf, and watching movies in her free time. Ellie is fortunate enough to live in one of the best cities in the world: Boston. This city provides her with many opportunities from having a marketing internship at the Franklin Park Zoo to taking long walks on the Charles river and exploring the city. She also had the opportunity to study abroad in Madrid in the summer of 2013 at the other Suffolk University location. My dream job is to either travel while writing about the different experiences I have or have a job at Discovery Communications in the PR department.
Originally from Connecticut, Erica attends Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a senior, majoring in public relations, and minoring in marketing. She founded Suffolk's chapter of Her Campus along with co-Campus Correspondent, Mackenzie Newcomb. has interned at a few start-up companies including Quincy Apparel and Good to Go Organics. She was also a public relations intern at Regan Communications Group, and is currently the advertising/marketing intern at The Improper Bostonian Magazine. Erica also works on Newbury Street at Jack Wills University Outfitters, a British clothing company that is expanding across America. She is very interested in the world of fashion, and hopes to make it big doing marketing/PR for a fashion magazine or as a publicist in New York City or LA upon graduation. In her free time, she enjoys shopping, hanging out with friends, going to the beach, reading, writing, and dancing.