Whether you love or love to hate this school, here are signs that you know you’re an F&M Diplomat:
1. You know what really happens at those statues of our founders
2. You know the correct way to pronounce Lancaster (don’t even get me started)
3. You spend your nights not in your dorm, but in Martin or Shad
4. You know which Harry Potter house your dorm is affliated with (and you have major house pride GO WARE!)
5. You know that DHall sucks all the time (okay, only almost all the time)
6. You will be furious if someone calls you a Fummer instead of a Dip
7. You will always brag about how you go to the fourth most rigorous school in the nation, which is higher than a lot of the Ivies
8. You won’t go to a football game, but you’ll definitely show up for men’s basketball
9. You will always complain about how much you hate some of the academic buildings on campus (ugh, did I ever mention how awful those desks are in Keiper?)
10. You will always brag about how we have such a cool college president, who knows all of us and writes on ALL of our walls for our birthdays (and even gives us shout-outs if we do cool stuff)
11. You’re pre-med, and if you’re not, the majority of your friends are (or doing something related to science) and will complain about how hard it is to be pre-med here.
12. You probably want to live in CROW if you get the chance
13. You know that ZeBi’s/Zime’s (BUT ACTUALLY IT’S JAZZMAN’S) cupcakes can’t compare to the Lancaster Cupcake Cupcake Truck
14. You’re either from somewhere really close to campus (PA, NJ, MD, or NY) or really far away (CA, China, India)
15. You’ve probably used to some blank stares when you mention F&M (It’s a good school! Yes I know you haven’t heard of it, but seriously we kick academic butt)
16. You love the lady who works at Flavors at LSP
17. You’ve probably high-fived Ben and/or John before
18. You know your way around the Lancaster Train Station
19. You know it’s not four years…it’s for life
20. You know the truth is, you’ll always want to come back to dear old F&M