Dec

11

Drop Your Cool and Go to Camp Crimson

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The semester is coming to an end, and when I take a look back through my first semester as a Sooner, I think about how much I would not know about the campus if it weren’t for Camp Crimson. Camp Crimson taught me the four major building blocks to becoming a successful Sooner.

Traditions– I had never been to a college football game before coming to OU.  I didn’t even know the words to the fight song or the Alma mater before going to Camp Crimson! At camp, you learn a lot of traditions that are good to know. If you have grown up around OU your entire life, Camp Crimson is still a good place to brush up on your skills, or just have a great experience singing the Alma mater and the OU fight song with your new best friends.

 Building Friendships- On the first day of camp, one of our small group leaders said, “Someone in this room will be in your wedding.” Of course I thought that was highly unlikely. In the three short days that I was at camp, my roommate and I got very close and she will probably be in my wedding. If it wasn’t for Camp Crimson, we would not have known each other as well as we do and I can’t imagine my freshman year without her.

How to Make New Friends- Everyone hates those cheesy icebreaker games that are encouraged in a new setting, but the icebreaker games at camp were actually fun and not awkward at all. I enjoyed meeting the people in my small group and finding out interesting things about them. My favorite icebreaker we did is when we were first finding out everyone’s names. You were supposed to say your name, your hometown, your major, and why you were not cool. I thought that was the coolest thing– why are you not cool?

Getting a Mini Campus Tour- Every small group is named from a building around campus. My group was named from Holmberg Hall. When we walked to various spots around campus, our small group leaders would show us what building our small group is named from.  Also, the entire camp met in a lot of different buildings throughout the time we were there, so we became much more familiar with campus before school even started.

There are two kinds of people at OU—people who go to Camp Crimson and people wish they would have went to Camp Crimson. Which one are you going to be?

For more information on Camp Crimson, visit http://www.ou.edu/campcrimson.

BOOMER SOONER
Hunter Graham
McAlester, OK
Class of 2016
Pre-Nursing

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