Bizarre things happen, I barely notice. #IGTR

Today, I was walking through the quad after my 9am class.

 

Then this happened.

Now, perhaps if you went to a different university, you might be a little surprised by your mascot chasing a gorilla through your academic quad for no apparent reason.  But the thing is, crazy things like this happen all the time.  In fact, this crazy thing has happened before.  When Sammy and the gorilla began wrestling, my linguistics professor from last semester, who happened to be walking through the quad, commented:  "I feel like I've seen this gorilla before.  I feel like I've seen him at Sid."

Allow me to take you back to second semester last year:

Here you can observe Sammy taking down the gorilla in the grove on the South side of campus.

I wouldn't say things like this are an everyday occurrence, but I don't think it's a stretch to say strange things happen on campus on a fairly consistent basis.  Daniel from McMurtry has a blog devoted to doing awesome, bizarre things on campus. And I mean, if you look at the video, practically no one even flinches.  One girl says "oh my god" and there's only one dude who does a double-take, but everyone else hardly skips a beat.

I guess we're just used to it.