ROFL! None of those are in my repertoire, but that close knit set of friends, the setbacks, ghost hunts (namely our freshman year...my roommate and I (and our suitemate) were convinced there was a ghost in our dorm--and we combed the archives in search of when/why there might be. A lot of little things like that coincided so closely with my own college experience that it made me adore the book.