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<p>I would tend to disagree with this characterization. I finished my BS at a University where there was very little school spirit at that time. In fact, it is now recognized that the alumni from a certain time period have very little to do with the school post-graduation due to the utter lack of emotional involvement with the school at the time we were students there. The student union had been shut down, and the sports teams were unknowns. There was nothing to get excited about or enthusiastic about that would pull people together.</p>
<p>But you are making it sound as if we didn’t have a life outside the books, which is hardly the case, lol. It’s just that our life didn’t revolve around university activities. Steverino is right that those activities often involve sports. An exciting sports season is something every student can embrace, even if they are not football fans, or basketball fans, etc. But school spirit can also be generated in other ways, and we have seen that on several campuses. </p>
<p>One of the things we were told to look for during campus visits is how many students and others are wearing school gear - tshirts, hats, hoodies, etc. with school colors and/or logos. To this day I have no clothing from my alma mater, and I had none when I attended there.</p>
<p>OP - to your question, it didn’t mean that I wasn’t happy to be there, just that I didn’t feel much of a sense of “rah rah” for the place, and no nostalgia for it after I was done.</p>