that's funny. Recently my brother and I took my dad on a tour of ISU for a full day. He went there in the 50's, we both went in the 80's. We never talked about this before but during the tour of the buildings one of us mentioned that they still occasionally would have a nightmare/dream about missing a class at the beginning of the semester, or a major test, that we forgot about. We all stopped and looked at each other and found out that all of us still have that dream every once in a while.
The Memorial Union Zodiac - To Walk Around or Step It Through
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I graduated 30 years ago and I still walk around it. First time I took the kids to the MU, I grabbed my daughter who was about to walk across it. She was 4. Teach them young!
I attended many moons ago, three of my kids have attended with my youngest enrolled now. To me it's like muscle memory to walk around it and I know my kids all walk around it.Lately I saw one of those dumb accounts like "Iowa State Girls" Instagram and posted a "hilarious" video (someone linked to Facebook). It was a drunk of coeds hanging out in the Gold Star Hallway in the Memorial Union and being well, drunk, and stomping around on the zodiak and basically playing it like hopscotch.
I graduated in 2007 and the video actually made me pretty ******* pissed off. I started to wonder, what if students think about the zodiac throughout the years.
So, do you walk through or around go the zodiac in the Memorial Union?
Tradition, Myths and History - Memorial Union
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To get mad at someone for walking over the top of it seems kind of petty to me. To each their own. Now if it was some burial ground or something then yes that would be disrespectful regardless of religion, etc.
I have this same reoccurring dream, usually about college and sometimes for high school. It's always about I forgot or they missed up calculated that I'm 7 credits short.
sometimes go back in walk into one classes and I am wearing Donald ducked.
Walk around and would remove my hat/stocking cap when walking through the hood star hall. I worked as a cyclone aide and following/teaching the traditions was engrained in us. Being disrespectful in the hall is upsetting but walking over the zodiac is meh.
That’s a nightmare if JC is naked in your dreams.
Ok - who walked across the Zodiac last night when Arizona was about to take the desperation heave?
I can't remember what I did. Probably a mix of avoid and not avoid when like you mentioned it was busy or had my mind on other things.
Is it wrong that I miss all of the traditions of Veishea for the wrong reasons?
So you're saying the traditions at ISU are corrupt? You should probably just steal the swans, walk slowly and fully clothed between Beardshear and Curtis, request the cancellation of Juicy Wiggle, and not complain about how boring the Bells of Iowa State is as a song.
So much talk about me au natural in your dreams. I feel like I'm in Inception.
I walked over it 95% of the time. Superstitions are dumb, but I never thought I was "cool" doing it. Just did it.
I will always walk around it to keep with tradition. Plus, if I fail a test at this point in my life, it's significantly worse than failing one when I was a student.
Anyone know how long this has been a thing at ISU? Cool to hear about people in the 70s-80s doing it too, love that it’s stuck around. Curious how long it’s held up
It was part of the original Memorial Union in 1928.
Tradition, Myths and History - Memorial Union
www.mu.iastate.edu
