A group of rather friendly and outgoing students at the Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy who spend some (if not a majority) of their time sitting, laying, sleeping, or even standing on or in the vicinity of the area near the History Office containing a group of blue couches (dubbed the "Couches"). Couchies tend to be friendly, open-minded, humorous,
knowledgeable, outgoing, and sometimes even
opinionated. "Couchies" is sometimes used as a degrading term for this group of people (however, not as much in recent years), and the name stuck.