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What makes the aggie network “powerful”?
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It’s an environment of inclusiveness they create and carefully nurture. It’s passed down from class to class by the students themselves. The meaning and honor of being an Aggie starts at NSC (New Student Conference) and continues through Fish Camp, Gig’em Week, and so on. A&M doesn’t have ‘alumni’, they have ‘former students’ because ‘once an Aggie, always an Aggie’. There are traditions that imbue respect for students and former students who have passed: Taps, Silver Taps, Muster, Bonfire Remembrance, and so on.
Years after you graduate, if you find another Aggie, you’ve instantly found another friend - the inclusiveness endures through generations. It’s really quite something.