Wednesday 9/9/9

Today was the "Party on the Plaza" event which was originally planned to be held in FRONT of Gregory Gym but since we got some rain in the morning everything got moved inside. There were tons of tables with varying student organizations.


The return of UT WTF:


Greenpeace volunteers are off the deep end:

Game Day

The first game of the football season was against Louisiana-Monroe. Here are just a couple of pictures I took there:


Record attendance at 101,096


Final score: 59-20

Random

My new poster, which is very trippy. Click it.



I want to join the WTF club.



We had a test iClicker quiz in chemistry, and somehow there was more than a handful of people that didn't recognize the most obvious Pink Floyd album cover ever.



Ben is the only one who would get this

Monopoly Overdose

Tonight was the last dorm-organized social event in the basement: game night. I played one game: Monopoly. It lasted over 3 hours. No, I didn't win, but it was fun. I think it will be years before I'm willing to play again...

The climax:

Gone to Texas

There was a huge get-together the night before classes started which was dubbed "Gone to Texas." Before that, there was the fall engineering gathering.

Not just freshmen. Bonus: creepy person.


Some dude dressed up as the school's fictional patron saint, Alec


After that was free t-shirts and food while student groups showed off what they had to offer. One has an ongoing project with a solar-powered vehicle.



In the evening was the big event. There were people everywhere.


I won't get into detail, but at the end of the festivities the tower was lit up.


And then there was free ice cream and a band played with the state capitol in the background.

Speed Friending

Tonight we had a dorm-organized event called "speed friending"- we only got to talk for a minute or two to each person, which really isn't enough time to become friends, but it was cool to meet a bunch of people like that. I only remember a handful of names but now I know two dozen or so faces.

Movin' in

My whole family came down to help me move in at Duren, the newest and arguably nicest on-campus dorm. I met my roommate, "Ernest," who's from San Antonio. He's quiet but pretty cool.
My new address:
4212 Duren
2624 Whitis Avenue
Austin, TX
78705

The traffic was pretty heavy near UT on the main move-in day.


Here's a video of my room:


Here are a few pictures of Duren.
Lobby:


Courtyard:


Main entrance/front:


We got me a bike at Target, which has already come in handy. It took a while to tie it to the roof of the minivan.


Here are the Duren bike racks:


This bike is awesome:



I worked out my legs at Gregory Gym today. The weight room had a ton of people in it:


The gym is really nice, and offers a lot of things to do there.

Dedicated cardio room (there are a bunch of cardio machines in the weight room with built-in TVs)


Raquetball courts


Rockclimbing wall


It has a really good aquatic complex too, but I have yet to check it out.

Oh, and of course I had to take this picture: