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Stars Coming Home

Why You Should Be Hype to Get Back to OKCU!

Sierra Paul
Aug 17, 2017
Oklahoma City University
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Stars Coming Home
Oklahoma City University website
  1. The opportunity to retell your own Walker Hall nightmare from freshman year.
  2. To do brunch like nobody's business because Willie knows your order.
    1. Huge Shout-Out to Willie: OCU loves you!
  3. Greek life is always hosting fun philanthropic and/or social events.
  4. OrgSync easily gets you involved with any and all of the hundreds of student organizations on campus.
  5. Auditioning for the fantastic season the OCU Theatre/Music Department has planned.
  6. Learning something in small class sizes that help to keep you accountable.
  7. Getting to know new professors…. and not just when you go to their office to ask for an extension and saying “Hi” to old ones since you’ll see them around literally all the time
  8. Strange but memorable encounters with the campus squirrels.
  9. Returning to the special lucky practice room you use to rehearse to your hearts content.
  10. The fact that all your friends will be back in town because they live thousands of miles away or studied abroad this summer…
  11. Career fairs that will help you get a real job after graduation… or now!
  12. New classes, new professors, and new friends.
  13. Impromptu performances, frisbee games, yoga, etc with your pals on the quad.
  14. Fall means Homecoming! A time to show your OCU and Greek organization pride... even more than usual.
  15. You’ll be reunited with your crew, which you know has the best squad pictures on Instagram.
  16. The chance to get that much closer to graduation.
  17. Greek life recruitment! The chance to meet new brothers and sisters!
  18. Coming back to OCU is coming home, and you wouldn’t want to be anywhere else!
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