You might be an LFM student if...

- You view getting an engineering masters at MIT as "something you do in your spare time."
- You consider sleep to be a non-value-added process.
- You know many Japanese words, yet can't say anything meaningful to a Japanese person.
- The word "workaround" makes you physically ill.
- You've caught yourself optimizing how you make a sandwich.
- You lose sleep at night worrying you might accidentally leave your laptop unattended near other LFMs.
- Your computer costs more than your car.
- You know who Taiichi Ohno is, but not Daisuke Matsuzaka.
- You wield the name "Herbie" as an insult.
- You produce financial statements for your kitchen.
- You've used the terms "cycle-time," "bottleneck," or "continuous improvement" with a spouse or child in the last week.
- You feel the rate at which a fisherman catches fish can be modeled as a poisson process, yet find no humor in it.
- You analyze the operational strategies of characters in Disney movies.
- You view running out of cereal in the morning as a supply chain problem.
- Your version of the beer game is a lot less fun than those of your friends.
- You think baseball could use more statistics.
- You think that Toyota, Dell, and Progressive Insurance are similar companies.
- You travel to beautiful, exotic countries and then spend all your time visiting factories.
- You think $1 billion is a reasonable price for a green plant.

(a list posted around the LFM Offices)