OPINION: Begin traditions you’ll remember down the road
Everyone knows about Homecoming Week and the traditions USU has set for it. It is common knowledge that there is a football game, tailgating and the Homecoming Dance. However, what is the best way to make the most out of your Homecoming experience this year? What is the best way to get involved and create your own memories? I think that depends on each individual person and the dedication you have to your experience here.
There are many different types of people who attend this campus. According to our own Office of International Students and Scholars, there are over 80 different countries represented at USU. Do you understand what this means? This proves that there are many different types of students on this campus with different interests and wants. This gives us an amazing opportunity to open up our campus activities to please a very diverse community, which is what the Homecoming Committee tried to do this year. We are hoping that everyone is able to find at least one activity throughout the week that they will be able to look back on and remember fondly.
This is what Homecoming is about. It is here to help create those memories that you never want to forget — memories that will last a lifetime, and memories that will forever cause you to reminisce on your time here at USU. It is a great time to get to know your campus and the traditions that it holds. Homecoming helps get students fired up for the school year and assists in setting amazing traditions.
Alumni come from all over the nation to be a part of USU again and help spark the memories of the great times they spent here. It is an exciting thought to graduate and move on with our lives. However, how often do we think about the present and what we will be missing when we leave? How often is the opportunity to be a part of a tradition that could affect hundreds of people going to be available after you graduate? All students are here to graduate and progress in life. But, what is a college degree without experiencing it fully? In a community that is solely based around the life of our university, it is important for students to get involved and experience what it has to offer.
Homecoming is here to help you enhance your experience while you are here at USU. It is designed for the alumni to come back and be showered with memories of their own college experiences. This is why tradition is so important. When you come back to visit after you graduate, you will want to remember USU the way it once was. You want to be able to come back and participate in some of the same events that occurred while you were here. Although there are definitely changes to the events we have had on campus in the past, we still try to tie in the past events with the present ones to make everyone happy.
I highly recommend stopping by all this week’s activities in order to start creating memories of your own. Think about what you want to remember in 20 years when you come back to campus and the stories you will be able to tell your family. What are you going to do to help make this Homecoming meaningful and memorable to you?