The University of Texas at Austin: where the person sitting next to you in astronomy by day can be found performing onstage at Cheer Up Charlies by night.
Biology sophomore Shazma Khan forgot to buy a parking pass this semester. Parking passes sell out quickly, sometimes in only a few days. When Khan went online to purchase a pass, all the good garages were full.
On Feb. 25, local and sustainable fruits and vegetables and locally made bread filled The University of Texas East Mall for the first official UT Farm Stand.
The Forty Acres Fest, hosted by University of Texas Campus Events + Entertainment Texas Traditions and Headliners Committees, gave many students an escape from RoundUp and the heat on March 28. The all-day event took place at the Main Mall with organizations from around campus providing cheap food and activities until 7 p.m. Alternative rock bands Smallpools and Ra Ra Riot then closed out the evening with killer performances.
Ever since Snapchat’s “Campus Story” was introduced at UT, we’ve had access to an addicting stream of updates from classrooms, residence halls, parties and libraries.
These are the 10 Longhorns who are most likely to show up on Snapchat:
From checking the bus schedule to swiping right for your next date, mobile apps are making many aspects of our lives seemingly easier. Although some are designed for purely entertainment purposes, others can help us save time and money. With 25,000 downloads within the past year, Hooked has earned a spot as one of top apps among University of Texas at Austin students. Offering real-time deals from restaurants around campus, it comes as no surprise that students love Hooked.
Your grandma probably has a Facebook, tweeting about your day has become second nature, and your Instagram is probably a collection of your favorite memories selected especially for your closest 900 friends. With so much social media, you’d expect users to understand the do’s and don’ts of posting. But we all have those friends who use Twitter as a diary and Instagram like a mirror.
Since 1994, local radio station KVRX has played local artists for college students’ listening pleasure. But if the station hopes to keep playing “none of the hits, all of the time,” as their motto proudly declares, they need to make some changes. The station has been running on the same transmitter for 20 years, and it could give out any day.
In reports, the walk is usually described as a 2.5-mile trek.
However, UT journalism professor Gene Burd does not have a GPS, nor does he use an iPhone to calculate the shortest distance from his apartment on Barton Springs Road to the Belo Center for New Media. He knows the streets as avenues for communication, not transportation, and chooses to take the long way around — to look at the City, note its changes, check all of the parking meters for loose change and stop for a chat with a lot attendant by the Capitol.
