<p>I've never visited the University of Oklahoma, or Oklahoma in general, and i was wondering if anyone has visited and liked/disliked the campus and why?</p>
<p>What were your favorite and least favorite things about the university?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>We visited OU last summer with DS and thought the campus was very nice. Some of the highlights for us were the Bizzell Library, [Bizzell</a> Library: Discover Home](<a href=“http://www.ou.edu/discover/discover_home/virtual_tour/bizzell_library.html]Bizzell”>http://www.ou.edu/discover/discover_home/virtual_tour/bizzell_library.html), Memorial Union, particularly the many lounge areas, [Oklahoma</a> Memorial Union at the University of Oklahoma - Home](<a href=“Oklahoma Memorial Union”>http://union.ou.edu/), and Campus Corner, which is a shopping & dining area across from campus, [Campus</a> Corner](<a href=“http://www.oucampuscorner.com/]Campus”>http://www.oucampuscorner.com/). We liked it better than some of the campuses in our own state of Texas. It is one of DS’s top 4 choices.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply! if anyone has any other information about the campus and parts you liked that would be great!</p>
<p>also, does anyone have comments about the political science or pre-law programs?</p>
<p>We will be visiting with DD end of November. Have a friend that attended there several years ago an enjoyed the campus. He was an architecture major.</p>
<p>make sure to tell me what you think of the campus after your visit!</p>
<p>I’ve been there twice–on a miserable rainy day and on a nice sunny day.</p>
<p>The campus is always green. Always. They’ve got construction going on, but it’s not obstructive or that noticeable. The architecture building is currently being redone.</p>
<p>The architecture is Cherokee Gothic, which didn’t actually mean that much to me. I think the administration and other similar buildings look like funky castles.</p>
<p>The library was nice, but as a fairly tall girl (5’9" in flats, and I wasn’t in flats) my head touched the ceiling in some parts. It was kind of weird.</p>
<p>The journalism building is GORGEOUS. I want to major in print journalism, but I was shown everything in that building. They’re really proud of it. I don’t really care about sound booths or green stages, but OU has them. And I guess they’re nice?</p>
<p>The landscape is dominated, as one might expect, by the stadium. It’s huge. </p>
<p>The Towers dorms are really nice. The Honors ones were darker but bigger (I’ve heard questionable things about them from current OU students, though). </p>
<p>The food in the cafeteria is all you can eat, and it is really, really good. They have a huge selection–not sure about the variety of vegetarian/vegan foods, but lots of food for carnivores/sweet teeth like me.
I guess, all in all:</p>
<p>Favorite Things:
Everyone was so friendly and welcoming (this may have been because I am NMS, but they were ridiculously nice).
The paper is awesome, and their adviser is very cool.
There are lots of opportunities on campus (movie theater, Starbucks, Wendy’s, etc).</p>
<p>Least Favorite Things:
My feet ached by the end of the day. The campus is ginormous.
You cannot escape the school spirit. I’m not huge on football or anything like that [my second visit was the Wednesday before the UT/OU game. This was a bad decision.], but at my high school, I feel like I can be myself. I didn’t really feel like that there.
I did not see very much diversity. Yeah, there were different races, but everyone really dressed the same. </p>
<p>The pre-law program is really well-regarded; I don’t know anything about poli sci, sorry.
Let me know if you have any more questions. I’ve heard the spiels :)</p>
<p>txkate, you say everyone dressed the same and there wasn’t much diversity. What is different about other universities? I’ve never been to any campus besides OU/OSU, so I’m curious what else is out there. I’d like to be myself, too. I didn’t take notice that it didn’t seem like the best environment to do that, but I didn’t have it in mind while I was there.</p>
<p>I’ve visited…seven? eight? other campuses, and I’ve always found people with hair that’s not a shade you usually find on Target shelves or with shirts from the 70s or indie bands. I know that judging by dress actually isn’t all that indicative of personality, but I take comfort in campuses where not everyone looks like they stepped out of a Hollister catalog. I definitely felt like OU students did. On a campus as massive as OU, I felt like I should have seen more diversity in terms of looks than I did. When I visited American, I saw kids with funky colored hair and at Trinity, the kids were wearing different types of clothes. Of course it’s typical to see lots of people in similar clothes, but I find it refreshing to see people in just jeans and ‘whatever’ t-shirts rather than shirts that all look the same.</p>
<p>Hope that answered your question.</p>
<p>txkate, thanks for your reply! that really helps! i want to have a double major, one being political science and the other is between broadcast journalism and energy management. i cant decide! haha</p>
<p>No prob. Their broadcast facilities are amazing 
They are very proud of them. I saw more of them than I really wanted to, haha. They’ve got a great green room, a thing where you can check out equipment, sound booths, editing labs, and some other things (I want to major in print journalism, so I kind of stopped paying attention ). The lady doing my tour recommended you get a Mac if you major in journalism. If you end up at OU, that’s something to keep in mind.</p>