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To My Last First College Football Game

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Cassidy Hope Cunnyngham

Sep 04, 2017

University of Missouri

Cassidy H Cunnyngham

Growing up my family watched sports yet we were not a huge football family. We would watch the Superbowl but if I recall, I would read a book or even study during. I went to a high school in rural Southwest Missouri that doesn't have a football team.

When I moved to Columbia for school at MU, I didn't think twice about not getting football tickets. Until my Junior year, I didn't attend a single Mizzou football game. My friends begged me and I just wouldn't give in, not really knowing what I was missing until I stepped into our huge stadium and got chills. The excitement, the crowd, the energy it was an europea I'd never gotten before.

This last weekend the Mizzou Tigers played Missouri State University. We haven't played MSU since 1923. That's been over 93 years the two schools have faced off against each other.

Part of me was excited to see a school so close to my home (MSU) play my alma mater. Part of me was hesitant because I have a few too many friends who attend MSU and if they beat MU who's in the SEC, well I just couldn't show my face around my hometown for a long while.

As the game started we scored a touchdown in the first 3 minutes. It was an amazing feeling as the crowd had a renewed energy for the new season and first game of the year. Surprisingly, as someone who's never been to a Bear's game, that they were able to keep up. Within the first 15 minutes, MSU had also scored a touchdown by one of our players not being able to outrun the MSU player. A majority of the first two quarters went this way while the Tiger grow grew relentless and tension was rising.

After the half time, it was like MSU just laid down and didn't offer a fight. Mizzou continued to score touchdown after touchdown with a final score of 72 to MSU's 43. Over 29 points to secure a shutout game for the Mizzou Tigers. I love all of my MSU friends and this isn't in any way to be mean, but we should all be proud of the schools that we attend. We should all support the games which our school plays because those players are peers that we go to school with. Be proud but remember to not get ugly at the end of it. It's just a game and who doesn't love a healthy competition?

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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