Elsewhere in the world, people stir and mutter curses as dawn shoves them into wakefulness.

But here, friends, we tear home across campus on midnight bicycle treks.

Here we stumble home from Burger King distracted by theories of economics and the way the alcohol in our blood makes the clock tower blur into the stars.

Here we spin our brains like coffee-fueled turbines and blast our computers with chattering keystroke zaps.

Here, essays crack, crumble and landslide into printer-paper torrents as mental reservoirs overflow, burst upon unsuspecting assignments below us, drown them and saturate them and thrash them and stream on.

Elsewhere, people punch their alarm clocks and snooze in the shower. But here we know the dawn as it is: the first signpost of approaching sleep.

Northwestern University is known as the Ivy of the Midwest. A highly selective and prestigious school with an entirely homogenous student body.

Northwestern Norms: Black North Face Fleece, Lacoste Polo, Apple iPod, Losing at almost every Big Ten Sports, walking with your head down, wearing t-shirts from Ivy League schools you aren't going to, and having an artificially low GPA because of extremely challenging classes.

Well balanced students who are very smart and committed to school work. Some are extremely stuck up. But most students can be summed up by the motto: work hard, play hard.

The technical term for being affected by a loss of confidence and motivation as a result of being bested by an adversary that was thought to be inferior. The term was first used to describe the affliction of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, which lost its final four games by a combined 102 points after a loss to the Northwestern Wildcats on an interception return for a touchdown.

The school so named because it happens to be northwest of the University of Chicago.

A school located in Rock Hill, SC. Its colors are purple and gold with the mascot being a Trojan (Northwestern Trojans). It has a very popular soccer team which has won 3 of the last 4 state championships and as just named National Champions by ESPNRise.com.

Northwestern is 1 of 3 high schools in Rock Hill and i salmost definielty the best one.

A conservative public school located in rural West Salem, Ohio. The students are 98% caucasian, 1% african american, .05% pacific islander, and .05% hispanic. The school prides itself in athletics although the football team has only had 2 good seasons in the past 20 years. Agricultural pursuits are highly recommended as this school is affiliated with the FFA and many students like to wear their cowshit kickers to the school. The majority of these students are christian and any student with a different or "alien" faith is looked down upon. The art and music component of the school is also disreguarded as trivial and many artistic students are outcast. Many students are racist and sexist as are a majority of the faculty, although a few good teachers can still be found at this school. If you want to fit in, be white, a conservative republican, christian, and play lots of sports.