Top 5 Auburn Restaurants You Don't Want to Miss

1. Toomer's Corner Home of the famous Toomer's Lemonade! You can enjoy soups, sandwiches, and snacks along with the soda fountain favorites. Watch how the famous lemonade is made by hand! 

2. Niffers This restaurant has a full bar and a burger named after Cam Newton himself!

3. Venditori's The hidden treasure across the street from Academy. It is perfect for any date night.

4. Bob's Victory Grille Located right outside of Auburn in Opelika, there's a dish for every one at Bob's! Gus Malzhan is a regular here, and you can get a picture and something autographed by him on Monday nights from 7-7:30.

5. Acre This restaurant features locally sourced southern style food. This notable restaurant was on Southern Living's list of Top 100 Restaurants in the South. 

Things Only Auburn Students Understand

1. War Eagle is our battle cry, not our mascot.

   We are all tired of those people that always ask "Which is your mascot? The Eagle or the Tiger?" It's up to us to set the record straight. Aubie is Auburn's mascot. The Eagle is a pre-game tradition that began when Auburn first played Georgia in 1892. A professor that was a civil war veteran had a pet eagle that went everywhere with him. During the game, as Auburn ran for the winning score the eagle left the professors side and flew around the field. Every one began to cry "War Eagle!"

War Eagle is not just used during games. It is a greeting among Auburn fans and family around the globe.

2. Don't Step on the Seal.

  The Auburn seal is located in front of Langdon Hall. All Auburn students were told that if you stepped on the seal before you graduated, you wouldn't graduate on time, or meet the love of your life at Auburn. The only way to reverse the curse is to skinny dip in the fountain in front of the President's Mansion. Students will avoid stepping on the seal at ALL costs, even if they have to run into someone to get around it. No one messes with the seal.

3. Miracles do happen. 

  The Miracle at Jordan Hare during the Georgia and Alabama games in the 2013 season will be remembered by all Auburn and Alabama fans until the end of time.

4. Yes, we are tree huggers.
  Toomer's Corner, home of our beloved Toomers Oaks have always been the center of our celebration. Due to poisoning, the trees had to be removed. New trees are expected to be planted in 2015. 

  
5. Dates with RBD
   Almost every student has spent at least one long night studying in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library. 

6. Forget Google, we have Foy information desk.
    Foy Information Desk is located on the second floor of the student center. It is a 24/7 help desk that will answer all any question you have, no matter how silly it may be. 

7. Family is everything.
 Whether you are a student, graduate or just took one class at Auburn, you are considered a member of the Auburn family. The Auburn family is loyal, always there for each other in good and bad times. That is what distinguishes Auburn from other colleges. 

8. The Haley Center
    Well, there are some things no one will ever understand.

 

The Things You Didn't See on TV at the Iron Bowl

 If you are from the state of Alabama, you are either for Auburn or Bama. That's the unspoken rule. The Iron Bowl, 2013 is one of the greatest games in football history. I was there to witness it first hand.

On the day of the Iron Bowl I was with the best people in Auburn to watch the game. We stood outside of the stadium for two hours before the gates opened (a total of four hours before the game started). Time flew by as the anticipation grew. Then the game finally began. We all know how this goes so there's no need for me to give you a play-by-play. Of course there's always that one Bama fan that sits in the Auburn student section by himself and he always finds a way to sit right behind me. So every time Auburn made a mistake, he would start singing some Alabama song in my ear and I would turn around and glare at him. When Alabama messed up, I managed to sling my shaker extra hard and give him a little taste of orange and blue in the face! He sat behind the wrong girl that day. 

SPOILER ALERT: Alabama decided to try a 57-yard field goal to win the game with a freshman kicker but fell short. Auburn's Chris Davis fielded it nine yards deep into our end zone and sprinted 109 yards for a touchdown and a 34-28 Auburn win. 

When that happened everyone around me started crying and screaming, the ground trembled. You would've thought Jesus was coming back! Before I knew it every one was pushing toward the field.

After falling over the thorn bushes we were finally on the field. Oh the sweet Pat Dye Field. Stepping on that field does things to people. Grown men were skipping around. Others were crying. While I picked off a piece of the field to keep, I saw one man on all fours eating the grass. Someone even dumped a loved one's ashes on the field! There was even an Auburn Santa on the field. It was a crazy night. Everyone took home branches of the thorn bushes as souvenirs. It was a surreal feeling storming the field. I stayed on the field for at least an hour, until security with the leaf blowers started yelling to leave.
Leaving the field I immediately went to Toomer's Corner to celebrate. People were making "snow angels" in the mounds of toilet paper on the ground. People  young and old celebrated at the corner for hours. It goes down as one of the best days of my life.