All posts by Ryan Finnegan

Blog 4 Ryan Finnegan- Walker Tower

Walker Tower was the home to my freshman year at the University of Oklahoma and is where I met many of my friends that I am still close with today. I lived on the twelfth floor with my friend from Houston and we had many great memories. The towers are home to the majority of the freshman with two other towers as well, Adams and Couch. The towers are right next to Couch restaurants also where there were many places to go eat including an all you can eat chick-fil-a. Walker tower was finished in 1966 and the other towers finished closely after. This building has seen better days as now it is full of mold and is out of date for today’s standard of a dormitory but it is still one of the biggest memories from my freshman year and means very much to me.

Blog 3- Ryan Finnegan, Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium

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The Sooners play their fall Saturdays in the Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium located in Norman, Oklahoma. It is home to the best team in the Big 12 and one of the best teams year in and year out in college football. The stadium holds about 86,000 people making it one of the biggest stadiums in college football. This place brings me great joy on Saturdays when I am hanging out with all my friends, getting a few drinks, and heading to the stadium near game time to watch quality football. This place holds many memories whether I am there or not because I’m always watching OU play every Saturday. This place brings me great joy of watching the best team in college football and bringing even more excitement to my fall Saturdays watching football.

Blog 2- Ryan Finnegan, The Louvre

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When I was 14 years old my family and I had a vacation to Paris where we stayed for about a week and toured many different things within the city. One of the coolest things that we went to was the Louvre. It’s one of the biggest art museums in the world and is home to many world renown paintings and sculptures that were truly amazing to see. One of the most iconic things there besides all the paintings, like the Moan Lisa for example, is the glass pyramid entrance in the courtyard of the Louvre. It’s one of the coolest pieces of architecture that I have ever seen along with the size of the museum. It would take a whole week to even see everything within the museum because it is so enormous. The Louvre was one of the coolest places I’ve ever got to seen and go into along with many other things that I saw throughout the vacation.

Blog 1- Ryan Finnegan, Minute Maid Park

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Growing up in the outskirts of Houston, I played lots of baseball and enjoyed watching the game as well. Being a fan of baseball made me become an Astros fan since I am from Houston. Throughout my life I have been to many games with my family, friends, and many others and have countless memories of watching the Astros from a casual afternoon summer game to watching them win in the playoffs with my friends. It holds my most favorite live sporting event I have ever been to and brings back great memories. Also it is home to the 2017 world series champions besides what anybody says. Minute Maid is also a really cool looking stadium that was finished in 2000, it has a retractable roof, was updated in 2016 with a new centerfield and many upscale and tasty restaurants.