So, let's see some of the photos of things that We've been up to lately. These all should be links to my facebook photo albums:
And the thing I really want to talk about right now, First Yell and Midnight Yell practice.
There's a lot of tradition at TAMU. One of them is midnight yell paractice, where today, the student body gathers at Kyle Field at midnight before home games to practice the school cheers, and school songs. It's a pep rally, really, but hear that's a big deal 25000 people big deal. There are no traditional cheerleaders at TAMU either, but Yell Leaders. Cadets voted to lead the students in cheering. There's also other traditions, like a torch lit parade from the quad to the stadium, the ceremonial guarding of the field, and the junior class doing push-ups.. In the first video, you can see a Yell Leader giving hand signals to the crowd to lead the cheers. The students learn the cheers, songs, and hand signals are all taught to the students during orientation. I apologize for the camera shakiness at the end of the video, I'm rocking back and forth arm in arm with the rest of the students
In this next video, you will hear one of the speeches the students give to fire up the crowd. Now, a few notes, Rock and Rockette are mythical A&M students. Every time the leader says a number, it corresponds to a class number: (20)09, (20)10, and so on. The tone of the speech was set by the previous speaker, where he made certain insinuation of the dating habits of people who go to Ark State.
so, yea, we drank the Kool Aid, really got into it, sang the songs, cheered the cheers, whooped. The Fightin' Texas Aggies ran out of time against the Red Wolves, but we did have fun.
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