We’re coming up on the last week of America’s Greatest
Homecoming at Oklahoma State University. If you’re a senior this year, you may
be having some mixed emotions about this. Is the nostalgia finally kicking in
about this being your last homecoming ever? If it hasn't yet, I bet it will by the end of the week.
1. When the first pomping period started this semester, you hated life more than ever.
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As you’re sitting there pushing endless pomps into little squares of chicken wire, you begin to wonder how many hours of your life have been spent in the pomping room the past three years. When you realize it’s probably an immeasurable amount, you begin to feel sick and think about all the things you could have done with those hours. Freshman 15 probably would have been nonexistent if you traded those pomping hours each week for hours in the gym. *shudders*
2. Since you’re a senior, all of your free time should actually be spent getting your life together.
You have jobs to apply for, career fairs to go to, your resume still needs perfecting and lets not talk about all of the homework senior year brings.
3. “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” actually becomes your life motto during homecoming.
Getting yourself to go to the pomping room becomes harder and harder with each passing day.
4. Some days you even contemplate just taking the fines.
You begin to try to add up in your head how many fines you can afford if you skip an hour or two here and there. You quickly realize you can't skip any because poor.
5. For a minute, you kind of envy the freshmen.
They’re so fresh and excited. They’re still getting to know their PC and upperclassmen like your great-grandma self. Honestly, the pomping room is the prime place to make life-long friendships. There’s no other bonding experience quite like the one in the pomping room.
6.You contemplate if you should really buy the shirts and homecoming jackets this year.
After this year we'll be trading in our Nike shorts and oversized t-shirts for dress pants and shirts, yikes. Spending $50 on a pullover without letters starts to seem like a better way to spend your money this time around. You probably end up getting both anyway, completely avoiding the thought of this being your last time to do so.
7. You had really high hopes of being super involved in homecoming this year, but life got in the way.
It’s your last year, so you wanted to help create the sign, set up for Harvest Carnival and maybe, just maybe, pomp an extra hour or two. All of that sounded like a great idea until you remembered those job applications and resumes you were supposed to be sending out.
8. Since Greek Row is so close to The Strip, you contemplated walking there instead of the pomping room.
We’ll get through these three hours of pomping we need to do a lot easier after a Limey, right?
9. You’ve probably tried bargaining with a couple of directors to get out of an hour or two.
“What’s your favorite drink from sonic? I’ll bring you one every time I pomp if I get an hour.” We’ve all done it or thought it.
10. As homecoming approaches this week, everything you do becomes “This is my last time to (insert homecoming related activity here)”
I'll never pomp again after this week, I'll never attend another Harvest Carnival as a student, I'll never stand here and look at all the decks as a student ever again, etc. Some of these thoughts might even provoke tears this week.
11. As much as you had a love/hate relationship with homecoming the last four years, you’ll miss the time you spent being a part of America’s Greatest Homecoming.
