<p>My daughter is a drama major at the University of Oklahoma. She was an MT in high school and although she was accepted into a couple of MT programs, she felt that straight acting was more her strength. </p>
<p>Her enthusiasm for starting off at the University of Oklahoma was off the charts. She encountered a little buyers remorse over the summer when she attended OUs orientation camp, called Camp Crimson. The overwhelming majority of the females at the camp were more sorority types who were more concerned about their looks than their behavior. Please no one take offense, as I myself was part of the Greek system when I went to college. It just wasnt my daughters cup of tea. My wife and I spent the rest of the summer assuring her that at such a large university there would be all types of people and that she would surely find many like-minded students. </p>
<p>The day we took her to move in to the dorm she quickly found that there were lots of folks like her. The next day she was to attend a day-long School of Drama orientation followed by a department sponsored party. The day consisted of discussions about the curriculum, ground rules, team building exercises, meetings between the new students and their upper class mentors, and audition/monologue work shops. We did not see her again until the following day, and the sparkle and enthusiasm that she had before going to the summer orientation camp had fully returned. Her mentor (a senior) remarked that the faculty and upper division students found her to be very impressive and that she had created quite a buzz by the way she carried herself and fully participated without any hesitation during the day-long orientation. Auditions for fall productions were to be held the middle of the next week. </p>
<p>She got 6 call backs, which she was told was virtually unprecedented for a freshman female and ended up with a nice role for one of the fall productions. She told her mom and me that she felt as though she was walking on clouds. She was encouraged to run as the freshman female representative for the Drama Senate and she was elected to the position by her fellow freshman students. So this has been a long way of saying - so far, so good. </p>
<p>My daughter is not a football fan, so she is probably unaware that her school has taken over the number 1 ranking in the nation. Boomer Sooner!</p>