Why is it..

...that there is such rivalry between schools. A good friend of mine is a TCU alum, and she came in town for less than 24 hours to recruit at a career fair they had on campus. I decided that I would take her so that way we could catch up, and then when we get to campus I realize I'm wearing an SMU shirt. I thought to myself for a split second, "maybe I shouldn't walk on campus" because of what I was wearing. The only reason I say this is because at the TCU/SMU football game this past fall I heard some pretty harsh words from people around me who knew I was an SMU student.

Regardless, I debated with myself for about 2 minutes on whether or not I should run to the student center on TCU's campus to go to the ladies room. And then I sit there and laugh at myself. Why does it matter? Why is it that there is always such HUGE rivalry. Yeah, I get it your team vs my team and we both want to win. But should it really matter all that much? I mean Rachel and I are still good friends even though we went to rivalry schools.

I don't know; maybe it's a useless cause, but I think some students take rivalry a little too far.

Then again, I need to be careful of those around me who may have strong attitudes about rivalry.