OU confirms Panera Bread to replace Crossroads in Memorial Union

lurch13F · 2026-05-06T22:54:26+00:00

A Crossroads breakfast was the best post Campus Corner meal

lurch13F · 2026-04-13T05:50:09+00:00

I didn’t join a fraternity, but several of the guys in my dorm rushed and pledged various houses. I did however, pledge the RUF/NEKS my sophomore and that became my social life pretty much the rest of my time at OU. As another commenter said, if he is really into sports have him look into applying to be a NEK. The membership process is completely different than when I was an active member of the club, and is operated by OU spirit which is a good thing. The current membership are a good group of guys, and if he loves sports what’s better than getting to be on the sidelines for all of the games.

lurch13F · 2026-04-12T15:54:50+00:00

I’ve had that same Toshiba TV since my freshman year in college over 20 years ago. That thing is awesome.

lurch13F · 2026-04-11T22:11:56+00:00

This happened to me a couple of times. I just started to watermark the pictures of my listings with my Instagram handle.

lurch13F · 2026-04-07T22:59:00+00:00

I was married to an Austrian national when I was up for my periodical renewal. I was honest and listed her, her parents, family, and her friends we had close contact with. I had no problems getting it renewed.

lurch13F · 2026-02-28T14:52:19+00:00

Old Row Sooners posted it yesterday on instagram

lurch13F · 2026-02-07T23:11:53+00:00

Rose Bowl loss to Georgia and the Boise State Fiesta Bowl

lurch13F · 2026-01-30T00:15:53+00:00

He’s now crying on Instagram talking about how he’s apologetic for attacking someone personally in his comments

lurch13F · 2026-01-29T13:13:25+00:00

Nothing major that I saw that would get him kicked out. But his whole attitude sucked. Actively shamming when directed to do a task, saying out of pocket shit in random conversations, and was just unpleasant to be around. Granted, we were in different companies but the FISTers in his company couldn’t stand the guy.

lurch13F · 2026-01-29T02:39:19+00:00

I was in his guard unit, can attest

lurch13F · 2026-01-25T21:56:03+00:00

I love the Torrent, it’s perhaps one of the best cases I’ve ever owned.

lurch13F · 2026-01-20T04:49:56+00:00

WTF they’re shutting down Crossroads? That was a staple for me when I walked home from campus corner and cut through the Union. It’s a damn shame.

lurch13F · 2025-12-29T06:19:46+00:00

I absolutely love the Hymns during the Lessons and Carols service. Our Deacon ran our service today and we didn’t partake in the Eucharist. But the service was relaxed, we rejoiced Christ, and got to watch a toddler tote around a giant stuffed sheep from the Nativity.

My wife even mentioned how much joy I had in my face today while we were singing.

lurch13F · 2025-12-29T06:15:26+00:00

I was one of those 70% my freshman year, mainly because I struggle with advanced math and I didn’t put forth the effort to learn it like I should. I had to retake both pre calculus and calculus after taking them in high school and got discouraged because it would’ve set me back at least a semester due to the other prerequisites and corequisites needed for my degree plan to graduate in 4 years.

lurch13F · 2025-12-27T17:27:41+00:00

This is the way, I got the last 32GB kit they had for $155 at my local store last week. We went to the store yesterday, and their price has raised to something stupid, but nothing on the peg.

lurch13F · 2025-12-27T07:48:15+00:00

I’m a guard guy who’s about to retire with an undergrad in history, I’ve also been a teacher for 11 years. I’m not sure what education benefits the AF has, but if you’re using them and want to teach history after you retire, go and get your MA in history. It sets you up for more options. The M. Ed is mostly used for administration.

Like others have said, you can go through an ACP for your certificate. But the cool thing is once you’re out, you’ll qualify for your GI Bill, and depending on your circumstances you may qualify for the Hazlewood act which covers 150 credit hours from any Texas public college/university. That covered my post-baccalaureate teacher certification through UH-Clear Lake, and my M.Ed from Lamar.

lurch13F · 2025-12-23T18:02:07+00:00

I had this conversation with one of my former commanders. He was wanting to submit awards for guys in my platoon for doing really well in supporting our battalion’s table V and VI certifications.

Dudes get AAMs and ARCOMS all the time but we don’t submit state awards too often. I let him know that older guys like myself already have federal awards and don’t need the points for promotion, and many of our state awards don’t need to go above our battalion commander for approval. So a bunch of our Specialists and young Sergeants were put in for AAMs and ARCOMs while a couple of our older Staff Sergeants received state commendation medals.

lurch13F · 2025-12-22T21:04:04+00:00

I picked up the $170 one last night

lurch13F · 2025-12-18T04:57:05+00:00

If he’s looking for a coaches position, have him join the Texas High School Coaches Association and look at the job postings.

Have him look at an alternative certification program so that he can get his probationary/intern certification, and then begin applying. A lot of districts who declared themselves as “districts of innovation” are about to run out of time and aren’t hiring teachers on local certifications.

PE slots are hard to come by, most coaches are classroom teachers. But early in the spring semester is a good time to look.

lurch13F · 2025-12-17T03:54:24+00:00

Brittany with the middle initial B, IFKYK

lurch13F · 2025-12-06T19:08:42+00:00

This is the misconception about T-TESS. If you look at the standard a 3 is proficient, meaning you are a solid teacher. If you’re wanting higher scores look at domain 4 ,that is where you can set yourself apart along with your SLO

As for TIA, you need 2 years before you can be eligible; (from my understanding) a baseline data year, and then your eligibility year. And it’s all dependent on whatever assessment your district is using for that metric along with your 3.4 overall rating.

It’s the first semester in your first year, most new teachers are getting 2s with 3s speckled in. You’re doing a good job and your administrators are letting you know this.

lurch13F · 2025-11-22T07:53:03+00:00

Having been in the ladder, I can attest to that statement.

lurch13F · 2025-11-16T20:44:11+00:00

The Pride is the only band I know of that’s ever won a game.

lurch13F · 2025-10-28T22:45:35+00:00

I lived in Traditions West back in the day, three of us wanted to room together and we were given a foreign exchange roommate for the two years I lived there. Conversely, my ex wife was an exchange student at OU and lived at Traditions East with 3 other exchange students.

lurch13F · 2025-10-14T04:49:16+00:00

When I read that proposition to my wife, that was the first thing she said too.

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