i love the merciless sunshine 10 months a year

i love dauer hall, where i probably spent 30% of my total time at uf

i love shands hospital where i probably spent 40% of my time at uf

i love the classmates i did 4 years with

i love the professors that demanded i learn something for 4 years

i love the diversity of the fairer sex that i found to be far greater than at uga

i love the fact that going to uf quadrupled my salary from my first degree

i love the interesting people at uc, where i went out most of the time

i love the wall

i love working out at the student center

i love walking to the va hospital, passing that little pond, and seeing an alligator

i love walking under archer from shands to the va

i love walking under archer from the va to shands

i love walking under 13th in between the bike lanes

i love the century tower

i love saying 'go gators' to a complete stranger wearing orange and blue, anywhere on the planet

i love seeing the gators play football about 12 saturdays a year

i love reading about the gators about 365 days a year

i love interacting on a message board with gators, and those who wish they were

i love wearing an undershirt to this day b/c i learned to do so while at uf b/c if i didn't the sweat would show through the dress shirt

i love that i 'owned' my first condo while in gainesville

i love gainesville

i love the big gator painted on newberry road interstate overpass

i love tower road

i love (this section classified due to incriminating evidence)

i LOVE (THIS SECTION CLASSIFIED DUE TO REALLY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE)

i love wakeboarding on the lakes just outside of gainesville

i love being 23-27 while in gainesville

i love watching the gators press and pass in basketball

i love the campus

i love the library

i love the copper monkey and that new york sub place below it

i love the liquor section in albertsons

i love seeing a line wrap around the corner at the movie theatre

i love seeing an apartment complex full of 18-25 year olds every direction you turn

i love ben hill griffen stadium

i love going into the stadium on a sunny day

i love running the stadium steps

i love going to the top of the o'dome parking deck and seeing the football players practice

i love printing a research paper at colonial village at midnight the night before it's due

i love girls in bikinis serving me a beer at that cowboy bar

i love playing pool at the place right beside it (silver q?)

i love lush before it got too popular

i love durty nellys even though it is immensely popular

i love other bars that sadly i can't even remember their names now, but i remember where they are and what they look like

i love playing with my band while i was in gainesville, even though we weren't all that good

i love practicing with my band while i was in gainesville, even though we weren't all that good

i love meeting international students in gainesville

i love meeting domestic students in gainesville

i love playing 'you don't know jack' with a classmate in the student ghetto

i love getting a good parking spot in the o'dome parking lot before it went to faculty

i love walking by the stadium every day on my way to class

i love getting accepted into uf on my birthday

i love teaching classes at uf

i love grading papers at uf

i love faking like i did some decent research while at uf

i love walking to the reitz union at uf

i love walking to the reitz union at uf and passing lombardi and him smiling and nodding at me

i love looking at the french fries wondering what the hell they're supposed to be

i love standing in line at the wendys at shands and hearing piano

i love getting lost in the classroom section of shands trying to get over to the hospital section

i love the 6 lane intersection of archer and 34th

i love subsational

i love dragonfly

i love fat tuesdays

i love that restuarant beside it

i love walking up the hill from shands

i love walking down the hill from shands

i love the vs tailgate

i love seeing half the student body in blockbusters

i love that i got to go to uf for 4 years, these are only a few of the reasons why.