1. In Catholic school, the Lord was your tried and true matchmaker.
catholic school culture is sitting next to ur crush during mass so u can hold their hand during the our father
2. Your school wasn't special unless its namesake was a true legend.
catholic school culture is being bored and unimpressed when a saint's biography concludes with "they died peacefully of old age"
3. You knew the exact skirt length — down to the centimeter — that you could get away with.
catholic school girl culture is having the art of skirt rolling down to a t.
4. Or you'd decide it was worth making a deal with the devil and ignore the dress code completely.
5. Speaking of which, you've just about had ENOUGH of this unrealistic dress code representation in the media.
I SAW LADYBIRD LAST NIGHT AND I LOVED IT SO MUCH IT HURTS BUT AS SOMEONE WHO ATTENDED CATHOLIC SCHOOL FROM PRESCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION, YOU WOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAVE YOUR HAIR DYED THAT COLOR. I WASN'T EVEN ALLOWED TO GET HIGHLIGHTS. THANK YOU.
6. You and your friends would raise hell if the rosary lasted longer than it needed to.
catholic school culture is praying the holy rosary and freaking out whenever the leader misses or exceeds the mysteries by one hail mary
7. Or you'd fall into a daze and got lost beyond redemption.
catholic school culture is looking at a nearby friend's rosary while trying to figure out what bead ur on
8. The best part about mass was skipping class.
9. But there will always be that one hymn that absolutely SLAPS.
10. Literally anything that took up class time was WORTH. IT.
11. You knew everyone in your school and it was impossible to keep anything private.
12. Catholic school girls knew how to be prepared for every occasion.
13. Having to find an outfit to wear on a dress down day was truly daunting.
14. And your public school friends were shocked to learn you had to PAY to wear regular clothes.
All my people that went to a catholic school at one point in time please tell me y’all remember when those bastards would make us pay $1 to wear our own fucking jeans
15. You and your friends knew the Bible cover to cover.
Catholic school kids in the hallway before a religion test https://t.co/q8hASMzY24
16. Fun and games during class were one thing, but during Mass they were on a WHOLE 'nother level.
17. Having the sleekest forehead cross made all your classmates super jealous.
Peak Catholic school culture is comparing how smudged your ashes are to everyone else’s on Ash Wednesday
18. However, the truest form of envy happened every December.
19. School was about 100 times more confusing if you weren't actually Catholic.
non-catholic in catholic school culture is not knowing how u ended up sitting in mass bc it was disguised as another event
20. You knew it would be a good day when your teacher popped in this DVD.
catholic school culture is feeling the need to watch the prince of Egypt every once in a while to take a break from actual class
21. And, finally, if all else fails, you know your school always has a job lined up for you.
Because at the end of the day, you can take the kid out of Catholic school, but you can't take the Catholic school out of the kid.
