As indications of how unique Texas A&M is (and I'm not using "unique" here to mean good necessarily...), there are multiple pages on wikipedia describing some of the aspects that are particular to this one university. One page describes the traditions of Texas A&M University, including words that students are allowed to say depending on their year in undergrad, the infamous bonfire (which killed 12 people in 1999 and is now not on campus), the yell team for games, and Silver taps to honor any Aggie who has died in the previous month. These traditions are kept alive by the Cadet Corps, which is in and of itself a fairly interesting tradition. It seems to be like a military fraternity. They do many honorable sorts of things around campus (again, silver taps), and also lots of silly things meant only to keep up the traditions (different class levels wear different outfits). Regardless, it is pretty weird to see all of the peculiarities on campus.
I also just discovered the Glossary of Texas A&M terms, which is the only page I was able to find on Wikipedia when searching for "glossary for university," so I think it is fairly unique. They have so much of their own vocabulary that there is a wikipedia page for it! I have only encountered a little bit of this on my own. Kyle's officemate was at Texas A&M on Monday and apparently was called a "tea-sip" all day, which is a derogatory reference to UT since he works there. Haven't heard that one before. There is quite the rivalry from A&M toward UT!
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