If you frequent the OU Norman campus, you will surely be familiar with the things on this list.
1. Crimson and Cream everywhere
2. Campus toursĀ
Everyone is either nervous and shy or excessively excited and impressed
3. Bird and Lime scooters on every corner
4. The bike lane is no jokeĀ
Those bikers are not about to slow down for you
5. No shortage of places to get coffee
Second Wind, Gray Owl, Stella Nova, Michelangelo's, and of course Starbucks
6. No parking enforcement on Sundays!
7. Campus hecklers
Some particularly interesting quotes I've heard yelled at passersby- (I swear these are real):
"You're not here to go to school, you're here to drink and do drugs."
"You're all condemned!"
"...and I did not eat that brisket!"
"I'll save all you broken women. You can call me Captain Save-a-Hoe!"
8. Church group pamphlets galoreĀ
9. Sidewalk chalk announcementsĀ
10. The world's friendliest squirrels (and, yes, we pay a fee for our superior imported squirrels)
11. Laptops covered in Redbubble stickers
12. SlacklinersĀ
13. Hammockers
14. Club booths lining the walls of the Union
15. Evening color guard drills
Sometimes I'm afraid of getting mowed down while walking along the South Oval
16. The occasional campus cutie
That you know you'll likely never see again :(
17. Thirsty Thursdays at Fuzzy'sĀ
18. Uber/Lyft drop-offs on Campus Corner
19. Tolerating the LNC bus lines
20. Plenty of fried chicken
Whether that's Cane's or Chick-fil-a, you're sure to gain your freshman 15...or your senior 25
21. Finding a seat literally anywhere in the Bizz during finals week
22. Vic Hutchison feeding squirrelsĀ
You've probably seen this former professor wheeling his walker down the South Oval with a dozen squirrels trailing behind him
23. Stifling a laugh in the Great Reading RoomĀ
24. Anything and everything is a parking spot on game day
25. The Porch and Kong's are the new "it" places on the weekend
https://jumpic.com/hashtag.php?q=theporchnorman
26. Mourning the loss of Cate dining hall
27. Smuggling jugs of milk from Xcetera! back to your dorm
28. Not walking under the clock tower
There's really no reason for me to avoid it since I'm already graduating late...I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious
29. Pianists in the Union food court
30. Being thankful the Presbyterians on University Boulevard have free parkingĀ
31. And being thankful the Methodists on University Boulevard offer $4 parking for those days you're running late
33. Cutting through the ally near Sugar's and briefly considering going in
32. When it rains, it pours
So much flooding
