Taking The Field By Storm

College: a place where study, friendship, growth and fun collide into a beautiful, magical and chaotic firework show. It's a place where you learn the skills that will project you into your career path. You bond over books and beer with the classmates who call you "sister" and "friend." College is a place where you grow up into the person you're meant to be.

Every day on college campuses across the nation, you'll find students pouring over books and feverishly typing on laptops. These students go to the bars as regularly as they go to the library, take naps in the quad, and laugh over Netflix with their roommates in their dorms and Greek houses. Each day, these students create countless memories that blur together into a nostalgic experience that can't normally be pinpointed by an exact moment in time.

But every once in a while, a night so magical, so experiential, so fun happens and creates just the distinct moment every college student desires to have tucked away in their memory.

For LSU students, that night happened Saturday Oct. 25, when the mighty Tigers squashed their longtime foe, the Ole Miss Rebels, in a hard-fought, vicious and violent battle in Death Valley.

The night was destined to be magical. After the Mississippi State Bulldogs beat the Tigers in Baton Rouge, LSU was humiliated in Auburn the very next week. Signals of hope emitted when LSU clenched victory from the Florida Gators in the Swamp, and when LSU crushed a less-than-stellar Kentucky. But what the Tigers really needed was an exciting win at home against a strong opponent. And what a better time to get that W than on Homecoming night?

Thousands of alumni arrived in Baton Rouge last week to visit their alma mater, and to hopefully relive the memories of past-matchups against Ole Miss on Saturday.

Magic happened in Death Valley that night.

Personally, I've never heard the stadium so loud, the aura so electric, the students so alive. In that night, we shared pride and love for our university, our dear LSU. We wore our stripes and cheered our Tigers to victory and celebrated communally on the eye of the Tiger that night. Chanting "LSU" over and over again, slapping our armor-clad, jersey-wearing classmates on the back, kissing the loves of our lives, hugging the necks of friends and sisters and brothers and strangers, we loved LSU so fiercely on an exclusive level reserved only for current students. How wonderful it is to gain an education from the place that blessed us with memorable nights like this with friends.

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