The University of Texas

The Gates Center which houses UT’s computer science department was recently built in 2013. A wood and glass monument to computing prowess, it is an impressive structure both in design and in the strength of the academics within. Within these halls are housed the robot soccer team which won first place in last year’s championship. There are also robotic automated segways that roam the halls learning how to avoid obstacles. The entire building has a tech company feel with the design and helps prepare students for careers in the industry.

Great place to live, great place to work, great place to get an education. Graduated last year in 2014, found a job, doing well! Boyfriend graduated from and works at UT and they’re a great place to work.
Campus itself has some great things to see, including the LBJ museum, the Ransom Center, and the Blanton Museum. The buildings are pretty nice and the campus has lots of trees. School of Social Work could use a little bit more money thrown at it, but that’s the nature of the beast.

I wanted more… not impressed at all. Tower tour was closed, mediocre campus with limited majors in my field.

I decided to give my 50^th review to my Alma mater, UT! Home of the best 4 years of my life.
So many moments, small and big, replay in my mind when I think about my stay at UT. I remember moving into a tiny dorm my freshmen year, and all the elevator trips it took going up to it on the 13^th floor in Jester West. I remember the big «welp, this is it» looks exchanged with my parents as they left me on my own for the first real time in my life. I remember thanking the heavens that a few of my best friends were able to come to the same university as me which made me feel like I wasn’t in this thing alone, and I also felt the separation slowly take it’s toll with the friends that chose different schools in other cities. I remember being homesick a lot. I remember living off Ramen noodles and Wendy’s chicken nuggets (hey, it was right downstairs) that entire year and showing up to my 8 AM class in pajamas. I remember realizing that college work was not as easy as it was in high school, and I would actually have to try from now on. I remember going to my first UT football game and being taken aback by how gigantic the stadium was (this is when I finally took the time to understand the sport as well, haha).
When I became an upperclassmen, I got better acquainted with the city of Austin and eventually fell in love with it. I didn’t miss my hometown as much anymore. I remember getting accepted into a social/​service organization called Forever Texas and instantly becoming friends with about 50 awesome girls, and I suddenly had all these opportunities to get really involved with my school. Every event my university put on for its students, I was there (and proud of it). I remember turning 21 and going out for my first time on 6^th Street and kinda feeling like an actual adult (almost). I remember the bus ride I took to school from my apartment off campus each day and seeing the same view of our school’s tower greet me in the morning light as I got off at my stop. I remember the late nights studying while forcing myself to stay awake and that same anxious feeling right before every test, no matter how prepared I was. I remember walking out of my last class ever on that last day of school and going to sit on the front steps of the tower just to take it all in.
UT will push you past your limits and make you discover things about yourself that you never even knew before. Your will power will be tested (should I study for my test tomorrow or go out with my friends?) and you’ll learn something new everyday. You’ll also see something weird everyday (girl riding unicycle to class, twins dressing the exact same every single day, someone wearing a gorilla suit in class, guy with a squirrel on his shoulder, etc.), but in time you won’t even think twice about it. My advice is to enjoy EACH day while you’re there instead of trying to rush through each semester just to get to Christmas break or summer vacation. Yes, the work can be hard, but just breathe. You will get through it, and it will all be worth it someday. I’m so grateful I got to attend such an amazing school, there really is no other place like it. I know it’s cliché to say this, but I truly ~found myself~ at UT and am now a better person because of it. UT is where I made mistakes, learned from them, and grew up into the person I was always meant to be.
Thanks for everything UT and HOOK ‘EM!
p. s. Registration will be a b*tch no matter what year you are in. Accept that that small period of hell and frustration is just something we all gotta deal with. ;o)

Class of 1998 here. Love my university. My sister graduated in 1989. My kids can’t wait to continue the family tradition. I love that they strive for excellence in academics and athletics. I feel I got a great diverse education. Professors and TAs were always great. My degree was in child development.
The campus is beautiful. Lovely buildings and landscaping. Of course it is a most amazing city: Austin. I love the diversity of the city and university. Huge melting pot. So many cultures. Wish everyone can experience this university.
Each spring the entire campus opens to the public and families can visit the different departments for hands on adventures. I love that some of the best hidden museums are in this campus. We have original Gutenberg Bibles in display! Texas Memorial Museum is a fun place too.
Hook ‘em

We have a very mysterious turtle pond here at the University of Texas. No one really knows why they like it, but eventually everyone finds themselves in a moment overlooking the pond and pondering life’s great questions. Or just crying about failing another Ochem test. Those turtles are always there for you.

You hear about the dedication of the wrath of the Longhorns and you will never understand the concept of making art or studying at one of the finest schools in the country until you actually do. It is indeed a very large campus which teaches you what you desire in learning from some of most dedicated staff, so I have heard. You will indeed get the full college experience. I truly enjoyed visiting some of the concerts here at night during our stay as a trip. A great campus full of things to do and experience and a world class education. Did I mention they are pretty awesome at sports? Hook em!

Saw a couple of sexy curvy thick woman I would marry! One was Mexican I saw her in Gregory gym. Man oh man lol. A lot better than San Diego state.

First class education for a relatively affordable price for my two daughters. Cost of living in Austin is manageable. I am a happy parent.

Please realize I went to school here when twitter, facebook and google plus did not exist. or a million other websites. i used my cell phone to make actual phone calls and email wasn’t taught to me in school. I could barely get on a bus schedule.
I decided UT Austin was the one for me after missing the IVY league deadlines… lol. Plus, Austin’s the coolest city for those getting away from home for the first time! Best place for the college experience, that’s for sure.
Went here to study business but I changed and moved to the school of architecture to study interior design because I thought whole food and HEB were bringing in some kind of design to my shopping experience. That’s worth a shot at pursuing Interior Design right? I soon discovered that I have an extreme perfectionistic streak that led to over night hours due to procrastination. Changing the shopping experience? Staying up late nights screaming at a piece of paper! WHAT IS GOING TO MAKE THIS INTERIOR WORK?! Who wants to go to Trudy’s now!!!
I went through 4 years of conceptual thinking and practice. Graduated on time. Move on make a career out of my degree. I think my professors deserve boatloads of accolades for stretching my brain. This is what I learned:
Most of all, genius is never without practice and discipline. The biggest quote and advice I have out of college comes from the SOA’s Michael Garrison.
«Picasso drew a 100 x a day.»
Never give up one what you love and never stop practicing to pursue your passion. Also, try to find a good leader! Try to be a good leader! Fight! Team You! Fight! FIND A JOB! APPLY YOUR COGNITIVE SKILLS!
Thank you for the best education possible, UT AUSTIN and amazing buildings. A ++++ for a A — student.
If you’re curious where I ended up? I’m still pursuing design but with a leadership major for a luxury brand. Someone has to train people how to give good service and make design magic happen. Blood, sweat and tears, people.

I love this place as a research institution. Endless innovative possibilities. So many intelligent and high caliber faculty here. This was my top choice for grad school, and here I am! The campus is also very pretty and has lots of outside seating.
I do wonder where money is going, though, in my department. There is almost no funding for our graduate students, including at the doctoral level, which is frightening and sub par for such a high ranked institution. Something is getting lost in this crazy bureaucratic chain, but it could be worse, I guess. Very affordable university, though, thankfully.

Hook em Horns! \\m//
This university is one of the greatest this great country has! Its vast 40 acres will give you some great exercise since all your classes are at least a mile from each other! There are plenty of sight to see and wonderful at this historic place that wont leave you disappointed. Don’t forget to come check out a game at DKR stadium and wear your burt orange!
One tips though, try to avoid driving on campus. The hordes of student will never let you cross and intersection since the majority there don’t seem to understand the concept of cars ability to crush them.

I attended UT as a graduate student studying accounting, and it’s a great school. All of their accounting programs are ranked number one!

I have had several people I know attend this university and have most of them have very good and strong feelings about the university. Not always the professors but def the school.
Also my wife works here and she loves her job and they treat her very well!

College campus are nice. This place is nice. Having said that, it doesn’t seem to match the old beautiful campus on the East Coast, but nonetheless, it is clean and has a nice grounds. The stadium is stupid big, but I guess it’s in Texas. Security prevented me to drive on campus, but I finally found a way to get in.

Ten years ago this month, we packed my entire life up in a 1991 Buick LaSabre and drove from Alice, TX to Austin.
We pulled up to Dobie and struggled up the wind-​tunnel stairs to the resident lobby with not much more than two suitcases full of high school clothes and some boxes.
Mom started to help me unpack. I stopped her, hugged her, and told her I was good to go. She cried. I didn’t want to cry so I cut the goodbye short and shoved her out of the 300 sq. ft efficiency I’d be sharing with a roommate I’d never met. I didn’t mean to break her heart. I was 18 and stupid and a small town girl in a city for the first time. I wanted to just leave my hometown behind, my family, everything I’d ever known and jump into my new life in college.
She didn’t leave immediately, she lingered, and instead we drove down to Riverside and had lunch at the ever revolving restaurant that is now Tony Black’s. (Formerly Peso & Bucks for two seconds, formerly vacant for the vast majority of my time in Austin.)
Afterwards, she brought me back to Dobie, and I’m not even sure I invited her back up before saying the final goodbye. I didn’t mean to push her out.
I can’t imagine how much she cried as she drove back down South. I’ve always regretted that. It breaks my heart thinking about it.
Over the next three years until graduation, The University of Texas was my home.
The Six Pack, the College of Liberal Arts, those halls and that lawn were my entire life. I can still remember the smell of Parlin Hall. I miss eating homemade ham sandwiches on white bread with honey mustard, smashed from being in my book bag half the day, sitting on the steps of the tower.
Football games in the student section are a mighty experience.
TEXAS!
FIGHT!
The stadium shakes with voices and school spirit and comaraderie. A sea of burnt orange all the way around, chanting in unison, feeling and believing in their greatness at every moment.
Then we won the Rose Bowl and Vince became immortal — I still wear my #10 Jersey. The stadium was enclosed and became even more epic.
My favorite professor was Professor Isenberg my senior year. He taught me to love Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and reminded me why English was my major. He taught me to «write what you know, and it will be good.» He was the type who would give you a bad grade on a great paper to push you to make it phenomenal, instead.
My favorite classes were on Brecht and Italian Women’s Lit — we sat on the lawn of the six pack and read The Iguana in the sunlight with a professor I always fancied to be a kindly storybook witch. She was fantastic to listen to with her thick Italian accent and to watch her wise and sparkling eyes as she read.
I learned a lot at UT. But mostly I learned about myself. I learned to miss home, I learned to love my new home. I learned to not be such a brat.
I wish I had gone back to walk the stage at graduation instead of just letting my diploma come in the mail, thinking that the pride of graduating early was enough validation.
There’s always been an empty feeling from the day I walked off campus, quietly and alone, for the last time. No one cheered, no one said congrats.
I just turned around, looked at the fountain for a while, put my horns up with my class ring in the air, and then left.
If you’re lucky enough to attend UT, you’ll fall in love. You can’t help it.
I’m leaving Austin this month, exactly one decade later, to start a new chapter in life. But this school, this campus, that stadium and the Texas Longhorns will bring me back. I’m a proud Texas Exes Life member and will always bleed orange.
And so will my daughter.
Hook ‘em!

What can I say about the University of Texas that hasn’t already been said? The University of Texas at Austin is one of the premier institutions of higher learning in the world. I graduated from UT this past May. The University of Texas does everything to ensure that you not only walk away with a quality (and affordable) education but that you also leave with a job. Aesthetically the campus is beautiful. I will never forget spending the first day walking around discovering the Tower, the PCL or the stadium. The University of Texas is where dreams become reality.

This place is beautiful. Beautiful scenery & buildings. Bring good walking shoes if you’re going to walk around the 40 acres!
If you’re a student or staff member, it may not be perfect, but as a visitor, enjoy the beautiful surroundings! Check out the libraries & go up the tower ;) Go to a football game if you want to experience the awesome camaraderie between UT staff, students, and alums. Its a unique place. You won’t regret visiting.

Yes, I am rating a school I did not even attend a full 5 stars. Call me crazy?
It sounds silly but I think I seriously fell in love with UT when I first visited 3 years ago. The school pride, burnt orange love everywhere, the sprawling campus, the proximity to 6^th street. Everything that I missed attending college in NYC they had here. And in love I fell… hard.
This time around my bf took me around campus while HE reminisced about attending UT a good number of years back. He gleefully pointed out the place where he took this class and that class, the library where he studied (or lack thereof), the freshman dorms where he discovered talking to girls for the first time (kidding!).
Pretty sure I’m going to force my future children to go to UT so I can stock up on even MORE Longhorns gear and fly down to finally catch a UT football game.

Trying to hold back my tears as I’m writing this. So many wonderful memories… football, friends, campus, classes, food (not the dorm food though), and pretty much everything about UT and the city of Austin.
Here are some of my favorite places on campus, aka reminiscing time:
–Welch Building: an awesome chemistry building I called my second home.
–Perry-​Castaneda Library (PCL): It was always a grinding time when I’m here. A good place to study alone or in a group.
–Jester West: the best dorm ever. Shout out if you know what I’m talking abt.
–Gregory gym: Bad a$$ pools.
–Main tower: It’s haunted… with history.
–Football Stadium: National championships when I was there. woot woot!
I miss everything about this school. I can go on and on, but I’m going stop before I ball my eyes out.
***Forever bleed orange and hook ‘em horns.***

This review is for tourist — not students.
After living in Austin for 12 years, I finally decided to go play around, take a tour, and my partner brought her camera. UT is full of Austin’s history, and can easily take a full day to explore and learn some super cool facts.
Today we did the tour of the tower, now they don’t talk about the shooting, but overall it was a great day, and full of fun.
Have family or friends in town… take a tour, or walk on campus!!!