So i pick up my son from UT orientation...

[streettopeschel]

and my God, how things have changed.

He stayed in Jester and raved about the food options.

His advisory counselor had a 4-year plan mapped out for him, down to the class. He signed up for everything on-line in 30-minutes. Gawd, where was that when I needed it.

He raved about a state of the art weight room across the street to work out in this morning. it was Gregory Gym.

West Campus. Holy crap. All of Austin I see is around DKR and the Disch. It's now a suburb of high rise luxury condos. When did that happen?
 

There's an above ground sidewalk from the PCL to the BEB. But it's not the BEB, it's McCombs.
 

One thing unchanged...ridicule of aggies. he said in one presentation they mocked ags and showed a video of a guy in overalls trying to lasso a trash can and closed with an aggie joke....
 

Q: What does an incoming freshman at Texas and a&m have in common?
A:  They both applied at Texas.

Oh, the Goodall Wooten is still there. So there's that.

 

[primal defense]

Could he play QB in a pinch? If not then how about TE?

 

[Matt Cotcher]

"Welcome to TEX: The Telephone Enrollment Exchange of The University of Texas at Austin..."

 

[java]

Yep, Texas takes good care of incoming freshman, now. Student mentors, advisors are prepared. There is no sink or swim attitude.

Hook 'em!

 

[streettopeschel]

Could he play QB in a pinch? If not then how about TE?

ha. he was a 180 pound 4A strong safety, so probably not.

 

[streettopeschel]

Yep, Texas takes good care of incoming freshman, now. Student mentors, advisors are prepared. There is no sink or swim attitude.

Hook 'em!

that's what blew me away. they had parent orientations telling us how they wanted kids out in four years and how the advisors had masters degrees in counseling. and how they'd group incoming FR in study groups. awesome.

 

[java]

Yep. My kiddo received multiple handwritten notes from several students offering to help show her around, or give assistance in other ways. It was amazing. I, too, went to an orientation. They outlined their expectations for students, as well as, requirements.

Most of the kids she got to know her first year finished in four or five years, depending on the degree program.

When I went to UT, they were increasing enrollment, though not to the degree A&M is now, they threw you in, and you swam or you went down. I swam. My first roommate lasted two semesters. The first ended in ScoPro, at the end of the second she was gone. She had fun, though, while it lasted.

 

[primal defense]

ha. he was a 180 pound 4A strong safety, so probably not.

That's too bad. I'm sure you would  have made a good helicopter dad. More McCoy than  Diddy.

 

[doc longhorn]

Yep. My kiddo received multiple handwritten notes from several students offering to help show her around, or give assistance in other ways. It was amazing. I, too, went to an orientation. They outlined their expectations for students, as well as, requirements.

Most of the kids she got to know her first year finished in four or five years, depending on the degree program.

When I went to UT, they were increasing enrollment, though not to the degree A&M is now, they threw you in, and you swam or you went down. I swam. My first roommate lasted two semesters. The first ended in ScoPro, at the end of the second she was gone. She had fun, though, while it lasted.

Do the frats still have the profs tests and answers in their file cabinets?  As an ATO pledge, that was one thing that fascinated me.  That and the rush parties.- especially the Delts.

Gregory Gym - I watched many a basketball game there and played many an hour of handball there as well.  A couple of hours of handball and my hands were so swollen I could hardly hold a pen.

I, also, met the love of my life in Organic chemistry.  But I have already said that.

Once I became fully immersed in my pre-med studies I gave up:

ATO

Handball

basketball games

most football games

eating

sleeping

friends

family

sanity

But never my time with my one and only.  She lived in SRD (Scottish Rite Dormitory) - is it still there?

Registration was complex and hard and all incoming freshmen had to take an entrance exam.  Any of you old enough to remember this?

And the Co-op is where you traded and bought textbooks.  Texas swag was minimal.

And the student population was 25,000 and you still couldn't find a place to park.  How do the kids do it today?

Is Kinsolving still there?

 

[Sirhornsalot]

ha. he was a 180 pound 4A strong safety, so probably not.

So he CAN play QB . . . 

 

[java]

Kinsolving is still there. I think Scottish Rite is, as well. I remember the steps of Gregory, and the Add/Drop cards. What chaos! My best friend, after a week (she was amazing), truly had the gift of BS. She got me through the lines in front of Gregory in less than 20 minutes, and we were Freshman. There were 50,000 students.

Inside it took a little longer, but we wasted no time. My goodness we had fun while she was there. She had to leave after 2 years. Her degree program called for 2 years, then concentrated work in her area. She had to go to Amarillo of all places.

 

[Aaron Carrara]

Jester dorm having good food options?

I used to live off the French fries and mashed potatoes... Everything else was terrible.

At night Jester opened a small "window cafe" and you could get a pretty good burger.

We used to head to Kinsolving for meals because the food was so much better, as was the "scenery."

 

[bcherry168]

I can remember some kids having to spend much of the day at Gregory Gym trying to register one class at a time. Fortunately, athletes had it easier.

My memories date back to the campus in the 1940s. Hill Hall was the athletic dorm then (I stayed in Moore-Hill Hall as a freshman). Miz Griff ran the dining room at Hill Hall. Man did they feed the guys back then. I ate there many times and it was always good.

Back in 1957 when I was a freshman, UT or the city decided to put parking meters up around the campus. This, of course, was greatly opposed by the students, so for quite some time they would pull the meters up each night before the cement set up. Finally, they city put cops there all night to stop it.

There were also times just before holidays when the guys in Moore-Hill and Roberts across the street would have fireworks fights. It seems that one could shoot them across the street and they would burst right at the windows. One evening as I was coming back from working out one went off right by my ear as I went in the door at Moore-Hill. Scared the ____ out of me. Shortly afterwards, the cops came, so both sides turned the fireworks on the cops. Finally, someone from the Dean of Men's office came to each dorm and stopped it.

My how times have changed. LOL

 

[bcherry168]

Jester dorm having good food options?

I used to live off the French fries and mashed potatoes... Everything else was terrible.

At night Jester opened a small "window cafe" and you could get a pretty good burger.

We used to head to Kinsolving for meals because the food was so much better, as was the "scenery."

When I was there, Jester was the Intramural field. I had a roommate that called me early one morning....around 4 AM wanting me to come get him out of jail. Of course, then freshmen did not have cars, so I couldn't. It seems he was a Kappa Sig pledge and had been to a party at their house on 19th Street (now MLK). He got too drunk to walk so he was crawling on his hands and knees acroos the intramural field trying to reach Moore-Hill. He was a nice guy, but I have not seen or heard from him since.

The dorm food wasn't all that hot, so a lot of us would eat burgers at the Holiday House nearby, or walk up to the Nighthawk on the Drag.

 

[armadillo slim]

''Salvation sandwiches!  Lemony lemonaide and.......sweetcaaaaakkes!!"

Orangebull

Roundup

Panty raids

Lights blinking at Kinsolving Dorm

Mooreburger, Broken Spoke, Dirty's

Party Barns

OU Weekend

Thanksgiving Day parade

Littlefield Fountain

Farrah F'ng Fawcett

G&M steakhouse, Nighthawk, Frisco

Rooster Andrews

The Varsity and The Texas

being stuffed in like sardines at Gregory Gym

registration lines in Gregory Gym

the Westminister peal

The Chicken Shack, El Mat, El Toro and El Patio

running across the track and on to the field after games

the Knothole section, Dirk West cartoon mascots on the cover of the football program

outdoor movies on the east mall

 

[java]

Cars bumper to bumper on the drag with The Eyes and Texas Fight Blasting. They were creeping or stopped. People were walking on top of them. Cops, you ask? They couldn't get to anyone. They stood, watched, and when we threw up the horns, they did too. Why not? It was 3am, we were ranked #1 or #2, and we had just won another game. That went on for the entire season. What season was it?

Hook 'em?

 

[streettopeschel]

Cars bumper to bumper on the drag with The Eyes and Texas Fight Blasting. They were creeping or stopped. People were walking on top of them. Cops, you ask? They couldn't get to anyone. They stood, watched, and when we threw up the horns, they did too. Why not? It was 3am, we were ranked #1 or #2, and we had just won another game. That went on for the entire season. What season was it?

Hook 'em?

there may have been others but it happened my FR year, 1977. Fun times.

 

[Etex Horn]

Cars bumper to bumper on the drag with The Eyes and Texas Fight Blasting. They were creeping or stopped. People were walking on top of them. Cops, you ask? They couldn't get to anyone. They stood, watched, and when we threw up the horns, they did too. Why not? It was 3am, we were ranked #1 or #2, and we had just won another game. That went on for the entire season. What season was it?

Hook 'em?

Fall of 1977. By mid-season Texas was rolling and ranked #1. Dramatic, close wins over great OU and

Arkansas teams in back to back away games.  Earl was having a tremendous Sr. year that culminated

in his winning the Heisman.  After every Saturday's glorious football victory, it was party time on The Drag

for hours!  It was big fun and a large time...for many weeks. I was there for all of it...it was my Sr. year at UT.

 

[doc longhorn]

I can remember some kids having to spend much of the day at Gregory Gym trying to register one class at a time. Fortunately, athletes had it easier.

My memories date back to the campus in the 1940s. Hill Hall was the athletic dorm then (I stayed in Moore-Hill Hall as a freshman). Miz Griff ran the dining room at Hill Hall. Man did they feed the guys back then. I ate there many times and it was always good.

Back in 1957 when I was a freshman, UT or the city decided to put parking meters up around the campus. This, of course, was greatly opposed by the students, so for quite some time they would pull the meters up each night before the cement set up. Finally, they city put cops there all night to stop it.

There were also times just before holidays when the guys in Moore-Hill and Roberts across the street would have fireworks fights. It seems that one could shoot them across the street and they would burst right at the windows. One evening as I was coming back from working out one went off right by my ear as I went in the door at Moore-Hill. Scared the ____ out of me. Shortly afterwards, the cops came, so both sides turned the fireworks on the cops. Finally, someone from the Dean of Men's office came to each dorm and stopped it.

My how times have changed. LOL

LOL!  You were a year ahead of me, I was 1958.  I played freshman baseball as a center fielder - no schollie, just a walk on.  I never did get used to billy goat hill.  Had to quit for the same reason I had to quit a lot of things - I was too dumb to just get by in my studies.  I had to really work at it.

I got arrested as a 12 year when me and my buddies were sliding down the Drama bldg.'s enclosed circular slide escape.  We did this at night and the noise acted like a megaphone into the buliding.  Our fathers had to come get us.  Good times.

Blair - when I was a kid, I saw the Doaker just kill UT in Memorial stadium.  That was when SMU used to win without cheating.  Walker and Kyle Rote were my hero's in those days.  I'm betting your daddy was quite familiar with them.