You Know You're a Queen's Exchange Student If...

1. Everything in your kitchen is labeled either 'IKEA' or 'Tesco.'
2. You have to go grocery shopping at least once a week because you have about one square centimeter of refrigerator space.
3. When you wash your hands, you have a choice between raging lava hot or arctic cold water because the faucets are separate.
4. Every time you plug something in, you have to consider whether it requires an electrical converter or adapter.
5. You've fried at least one electrical device.
6. You spent a pound on a dryer that didn't dry your clothes, and then wasted another pound and another hour trying again just so you're sure the dryer doesn't actually work.
7. The laundry machine to student ratio is one to fifty.
8. Only one of the two dryers which serve roughly a hundred people actually works.
9. You can't use five, two, or one pence coins for the laundry machines, so you save them in a plastic water bottle hoping to trade up at the bank later.
10. You're afraid to use the kitchen towels to dry your dishes because you don't know what the hell other people have used them for.
11. The Scholars' Restaurant in Elms Village has advertisements all over the place, but it's NEVER OPEN when you go there.
12. The word 'pasta' has become forbidden, because it's the easiest thing to cook and you eat it at least four times a week and you're SICK of it!
13. The internet DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!
14. You've been to a party at one of the residence halls which was broken up by security, so you went to another party at another res and ten minutes later it got broken up by the SAME security guard.
15. The lights never come on immediately; they always flicker at least twice.
16. During the international orientation program, half of the group visited the Seamus Heaney Library twice in the same day.
17. There is never an electrical outlet where you need it to be.
18. You never thought having a sink in your dorm room would be so exciting, but it is!
19. Your student card picture looks like some drunk person took it.
20. The heaters only work during the day when you're not home, and then they go off at night when you ARE home and it gets really cold.
21. Every other time you turn the stove or the oven on, you realize ten minutes later that the fuse switch has been turned off, which is why it hasn't started getting hot.
22. The cleaning staff are magical creatures who are never seen but always leave your kitchen clean on a random day of the week.
23. Every door in the res is a fire door which much be kept shut at all times, including the two (yes, two) doors leading to the kitchen.
24. At least one of the kitchen doors slams shut loudly if you let it go, which everyone keeps forgetting.
25. You have such a small number of classes during the week that you forget your main purpose in being here is to study!
26. The forks with three tines in the kitchen annoy you, but you're too lazy to go out and buy forks with the normal four tines. "Three tines is not a fork. Three tines is a trident. Forks are for eating, tridents are for ruling the seven seas." -Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory