When you belong to a certain club or attend a certain school, you can usually tell those particular people from others. Just like anywhere else, as a girl going to the University Of Oklahoma, most of us have a few things that make us stick out all over town, or as we call it, "Nompton". Here's a list of ten things that can let you spot an OU girl anywhere.
1. All The Baseball Hats
OU, Polo, New York Yankees, Carhartt; the list goes on and on. Baseball hats are perfect for if you've rolled out of bed to make it to class on time, or, if we're being honest, you are trying to stretch your four-day hair just twenty four more hours after you've stayed up too late studying or had one too many Swirls at The Mont the night before.
2. Cowboy Boots
You see about 5,000 pairs of these on campus corner during game days. Or you have the rest of us who discovered how much they kill your feet while you stand shoulder to shoulder in the student section that you gave up on them and they just sit in your closet. These days most people wear them dressed up to go to the games, or with a five size too big OU Football Jersey.
3. FTK Stickers
On laptops, stuck to water bottles, binders; anywhere you can think of you can probably find an FTK or "For The Kids" sticker stuck to something. "For The Kids" is a phrase that goes along with Soonerthon, which is the biggest fundraising event of the year. The event benefits the Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City! OU just made history for raising one million dollars for this cause. OU is FTK!
4. Windbreakers And OU Hoodies
If you are in a sorority, you've probably got a windbreaker with your letters on it. If you are in a club, you probably have sweatshirt with your club on it. If you don't have either, I can guarantee you have an OU sweatshirt or hoodie. Or if you don't have one of those, you have a windbreaker with your monogram on the front. All of these are great when you walk to class when it's seventy degrees and when you walk out of class in twenty degrees and pouring down rain. Welcome to Oklahoma!
5. A Parking Pass, Yours or someone else's
If you didn't pay the $250 to buy your own, you probably bought one from somebody that graduated, or you borrow one from your best friend Tammy's friends' boyfriend. But honestly, most of us find it near impossible to actually find a parking spot with said $250 dollar permit, so most of us just park at the Lloyd Noble Lot, only to have to wait in a huge line for a shuttle to get back to campus.
6. Those Free "GO OU" or "Boomer Sooner" Shirts
You probably got one when you toured campus, got them as a prize as a football game, or were given one at the campus life fair at the beginning of the semester. They are one of those things that you always seem to throw on with a pair of sweat when you practically just roll out of bed.
7. A Water Bottle Covered In Stickers
Camelbak, Contigo, HydroFlask, the list goes on and on. Chances are that whatever you have is covered in stickers from all kinds of random vacations, a restaurant you went, or of course, our favorite, redbubble.com.
8. Jumbo Size Teeshirts
Sororities and Frat Date Parties, Bid Day, Mom's Day, Dad's Day, Clubs, Camp Crimson; the list of organizations who do comfort colors teeshirts goes on and on. Even though you probably wear a small in a shirt, you definitely got that thing in extra giant. Why? because they are the best.