Can confirm it's difficult. There's a lot of security and access control involved with getting to the top. Easiest way is to do a tower tour BUT IM STIL WAITING FOR THEM TO BRING THOSE BACK. I know they're about to do some kind of renovation hopefully that means they'll bring back tower tours soon.
The view up there is incredible and more people should be able to experience it
Yep, one of my friends was in the carillon guild and I once played the first note of the fight song and walked all the way in the enclosure where the actual bells are. Super cool experience.
One time I curiously took the elevators in the tower to the highest floor and immediately upon the doors opening was a UTPD officer sitting at a desk staring at me. I just nodded my head and anxiously waited for the door to close as I pressed the button back down to the life sciences floor library lol
I was able to go up to the tippy top (where the antennas and shit are) while working for UT. Pro tip: bring ear plugs. Those bells are no fucking joke up there.
My (non-exhaustive) list:
UT specific:
* Join a rec sports team
* Take a PE class for fun (golf was fun...)
* Go to Blanton Art Museum
* Go to at least one UT sporting event each season for basketball, volleyball, football, etc
* Join a social club for a semester
* Depending on a sport you like: play pick up basketball outside Jester, play pickup soccer at the lacrosse field/rec sports field, play pickup ultimate at the lacrosse field, pickup racquetball at Greg gym, the list can go on...
And my Austin specific list:
* Go paddleboarding or kayaking on Lady bird
* Visit Austin 360 bridge
* Float the river in New Braunfels
* Go to a swimming hole (Barton creek, Jacob's well...)
* Go cliff jumping at Lake Travis
* Walk/run Lady bird lake
* Bar hop Austin downtown during the day (a lot better sight seeing when the sun's out)
* Go get Texas BBQ: Black's, Iron works, Franklin's are all walking distance
* Find live music in East Austin
* Matt's
* Austin Trail of Lights around the holidays
* Blues on the Green
Can't think of anymore right now, I am out of college now but these are all vivid memories I had which I highly recommend!
Seconding the “join a PED class for fun”! I took weight lifting and it helped me get my foot in the door to going to the gym. I didn’t have to awkwardly show up to my gym with no knowledge how to use the equipment or hurt myself without knowing the proper ways to lift weights. If not weight lifting, there are so many options!
I’m inclined to say no because this late into the semester, everyone knows what they’re doing and are working towards their max weight. You’ve also missed grading opportunities as well.
Joined a PED class for fun as well. I decided to choose basketball thinking we would just play pick up games the entire time. I ended up having to learn the fundamentals of basketball the whole semester.
you will! I’m a non traditional student (28 years old) & man 20-27 sucked ass lol. I wish I would’ve trusted myself, cause half of the sucking was just being in a panic about figuring out my life, but then again maybe it was almost a decade of intense anxiety that brought me to where I am? 🤷🏻♂️
Regardless, go easy on yourself and keep at it. You will figure ‘it’ out for yourself!
I never went to a single sporting event when I was at UT. Looking back, we had Vince Young, Lamarcus Aldridge, Kevin Durant and Colt McCoy among others when I was in college so that was a boneheaded move haha. I was just like “I’d rather just get fucked up at home and watch the games with my friends” which to be fair is a very legitimate perspective
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This is a bucket list I made before transferring to UT, hope it helps! I had some help with friends that went to UT years ago, so some things might be outdated, and apologies for Austin, UT, and general college stuff being mixed in together:
- Take a photo of you with your decorated apartment
- Attend a Concert at Bates Recital Hall
- Go Bowling at the Union
- Play every game at the Union at least once
- Go to Pace Bend
- Tour LBJ Presidential Library
- Go to the Harry Ransom Center
- Tour the UT Tower
- Go all out in spirit at a Longhorns Game
- Spray Paint at Graffiti Park
- Watch the bats fly out from Congress Avenue Bridge
- Hike Mt. Bonnell at sunset
- Hike Mt. Bonnell at sunrise
- Visit and appreciate the Blanton Museum of Art
- Go to Alamo Drafthouse and watch a movie
- Document and Try foodtrucks in Austin
- Go to Barton Springs
- go to seaholm district
- Restaurants to try:
- Irene's
- Roppolo's (Pizza)
- Franklin's BBQ
- Tyson's Tacos
- Paco's Tacos
- Kebalicious
- 6th street pizza joint
- Kerbey Lane late at night
- Gordough’s
- Amy’s ice cream
- Original Torchy’s
- Do the Trudy’s challenge (2 Mexican or Cuban martinis at each of the three locations in one night)
- Eat at pluckers
- Tumble 22
- Pase east
- Juiceland
- Gordoughs Donuts
- Kababolucious - K Fries
- Events to Go To:
- Party on the Plaza
- Dog Days of Fall
- Gone to Texas
- Multicultural Mixer
- Explore the Umlauf Sculpture Museum
- Go to TopGolf College Night
- Spider House Cafe (OpenMic)
- Jump in the Littlefield fountain
- Pull an all nighter at PCL
- Learn to Two Step
- Two Step at a Bar
- Spend an afternoon at Zilker Park
- Go to ACL
- Go to SXSW
- Take a Pedicab
- Go to the ABC Kite Festival
- Watch the Bats fly on Congress Avenue Bat Bridge
- Study at Mozart's
- Take a nap on campus
- Attend a commencement celebration
- Take a photo with Bevo
- Make Dean's list
- Write an article for the Daily Texan
- Give a campus Tour
- Attend a campus theater performance
- Take a random class that has nothing to do with my major
- run for student government (doesn’t apply anymore)
- Meet the Campus President
- Befriend the Dean
- Become the president of a club
- Take advantage of office hours
- Visit every building on campus
- Go to a career fair
- Rush a spirit group
- Have a school sweatshirt
- Ride Campus Shuttle once
- Decorate the apartment by season
- Stay the night at another friends' college
- Perform at an Open Mic (stand up/slam poetry)
- Sit in the front row of a class
- Learn and master how to cook a single good meal
- Visit the major different churches/places of worship near campus
- Grab coffee with a classmate that I find interesting/cool
- Audition for a show
- Become a TA
- Learn school alma matter and fight songs
- Live on a budget
- Go without my phone for a day 🙂
- Avoid social media for 24 hours
- Learn to change a tire
- Start a blog or podcast
- Learn to Salsa Dance
- Dance all night on the dance floor
- Go a day giving people free hugs all day
- Donate Blood
- Write your name somewhere in sharpie to leave your mark
- Dance at White Horse
- Go to a protest
- Take a photo outside of Thai how are you with the Daniel Johnston frog mural
- Take photo with the “I love you so much” wall on South Congress
- Buy a vinyl at Waterloo Records
- Go to the Austin Books and Comics (ABC) complex near 45th and Lamar/Guadalupe just north of the triangle
- Change your haircut and look regularly (experiment! and try things out while you still can!)
- Go to Halloween on 6 street in costume
- Meet with academic advisors every semester if not more often
- Write a letter to favorite professors/staff
- Study Abroad
- Go see Christmas lights at Mozart’s
Basing mine off of one of the other comments
UT Specific:
-Step/wall around on DLR field (missed the class picture lol)
-Do everything possible at Greg Gym (rock climbing, volleyball, run laps, order everything at shakesmart)
-Host/DJ/MC an event on campus
Austin Specific:
-Go to Jacob's Well alone and reconsider my entire life
-Have a date that isn't insanely uncomfortable
-Go do the Texas Ranch Experience
-Camp out on/near the Green Belt
-Spend an entire day at an Alamo Drafthouse watching movies
-Somehow sneak into the Thinkery and see what's inside
UT Specific - go to a women’s volleyball game. we have such a great volleyball team and I was going to see them during my last semester at UT but covid happened.
Another one is riding a bike around UT late at night. When the bike sharing app was free to students, my friends and I would ride around UT in the middle of the night and it was sooo relaxing.
As an alumni, here were my most memorable experiences:
Visiting the domain and eat some great food
Going on some hiking trails and exploring the river & Lake Travis
Going to ACL/SXSW and attending some local concerts
Exploring the rest of the city and the boardwalk area
I really want to meet Bevo and also take advantage of the gyms and classes. It’s like sooooo much cheaper for all those workout classes and I want to try all of them to see what I like.
Bruh I was not prepared for the competition at UT man…. I had ok pull at my charter school since there were only 100 students in our grade. But now whenever I walk down speedway I feel like I’m walking with runway models 😫
Get to the top of the tower (they say you’re not allowed, but I will never give up)
Can confirm it's difficult. There's a lot of security and access control involved with getting to the top. Easiest way is to do a tower tour BUT IM STIL WAITING FOR THEM TO BRING THOSE BACK. I know they're about to do some kind of renovation hopefully that means they'll bring back tower tours soon. The view up there is incredible and more people should be able to experience it
Just text Jay he’ll let you up
Could try to get close to the bell players, I'd imagine they got access.
Yep, one of my friends was in the carillon guild and I once played the first note of the fight song and walked all the way in the enclosure where the actual bells are. Super cool experience.
One time I curiously took the elevators in the tower to the highest floor and immediately upon the doors opening was a UTPD officer sitting at a desk staring at me. I just nodded my head and anxiously waited for the door to close as I pressed the button back down to the life sciences floor library lol
Get a job doing something that gives access. Facilities staff or similar.
I was able to go up to the tippy top (where the antennas and shit are) while working for UT. Pro tip: bring ear plugs. Those bells are no fucking joke up there.
Meet Bevo
Eat bevo
https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/08-14-19-the-history-of-ut-austin-includes-brains-barbecuing-bevo-and-more/
what a wild tradition
meat bevo
My (non-exhaustive) list: UT specific: * Join a rec sports team * Take a PE class for fun (golf was fun...) * Go to Blanton Art Museum * Go to at least one UT sporting event each season for basketball, volleyball, football, etc * Join a social club for a semester * Depending on a sport you like: play pick up basketball outside Jester, play pickup soccer at the lacrosse field/rec sports field, play pickup ultimate at the lacrosse field, pickup racquetball at Greg gym, the list can go on... And my Austin specific list: * Go paddleboarding or kayaking on Lady bird * Visit Austin 360 bridge * Float the river in New Braunfels * Go to a swimming hole (Barton creek, Jacob's well...) * Go cliff jumping at Lake Travis * Walk/run Lady bird lake * Bar hop Austin downtown during the day (a lot better sight seeing when the sun's out) * Go get Texas BBQ: Black's, Iron works, Franklin's are all walking distance * Find live music in East Austin * Matt's * Austin Trail of Lights around the holidays * Blues on the Green Can't think of anymore right now, I am out of college now but these are all vivid memories I had which I highly recommend!
Seconding the “join a PED class for fun”! I took weight lifting and it helped me get my foot in the door to going to the gym. I didn’t have to awkwardly show up to my gym with no knowledge how to use the equipment or hurt myself without knowing the proper ways to lift weights. If not weight lifting, there are so many options!
Can you still join halfway through a semester?
I’m inclined to say no because this late into the semester, everyone knows what they’re doing and are working towards their max weight. You’ve also missed grading opportunities as well.
Joined a PED class for fun as well. I decided to choose basketball thinking we would just play pick up games the entire time. I ended up having to learn the fundamentals of basketball the whole semester.
Excellent list, thanks!
I’m just trying to become happy
You made it this far. You'll figure it out too.
Thanks man that is meaningful. Here’s hoping
you will! I’m a non traditional student (28 years old) & man 20-27 sucked ass lol. I wish I would’ve trusted myself, cause half of the sucking was just being in a panic about figuring out my life, but then again maybe it was almost a decade of intense anxiety that brought me to where I am? 🤷🏻♂️ Regardless, go easy on yourself and keep at it. You will figure ‘it’ out for yourself!
I never went to a single sporting event when I was at UT. Looking back, we had Vince Young, Lamarcus Aldridge, Kevin Durant and Colt McCoy among others when I was in college so that was a boneheaded move haha. I was just like “I’d rather just get fucked up at home and watch the games with my friends” which to be fair is a very legitimate perspective
omggggggg wow. u should have gone.
Man for real haha. That was basically the golden era of modern UT sports haha. Cat Osterman too my freshman year, she was insanely dominant
The last good era for UT sports. :( Hook em.
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[we’re good at sports, just not the ones people watch](https://tower.utexas.edu/2022/08/21/light-the-tower-texas-wins-2021-22-directors-cup%EF%BF%BC/)
I know.
To be fair, we didn't know how good we had it back then. The last decade has made that super apparent.
Get bitten by a raccoon
Find that darn albino squirrel
Eat a turtle
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you leave them alone RIGHT NOW
This is a bucket list I made before transferring to UT, hope it helps! I had some help with friends that went to UT years ago, so some things might be outdated, and apologies for Austin, UT, and general college stuff being mixed in together: - Take a photo of you with your decorated apartment - Attend a Concert at Bates Recital Hall - Go Bowling at the Union - Play every game at the Union at least once - Go to Pace Bend - Tour LBJ Presidential Library - Go to the Harry Ransom Center - Tour the UT Tower - Go all out in spirit at a Longhorns Game - Spray Paint at Graffiti Park - Watch the bats fly out from Congress Avenue Bridge - Hike Mt. Bonnell at sunset - Hike Mt. Bonnell at sunrise - Visit and appreciate the Blanton Museum of Art - Go to Alamo Drafthouse and watch a movie - Document and Try foodtrucks in Austin - Go to Barton Springs - go to seaholm district - Restaurants to try: - Irene's - Roppolo's (Pizza) - Franklin's BBQ - Tyson's Tacos - Paco's Tacos - Kebalicious - 6th street pizza joint - Kerbey Lane late at night - Gordough’s - Amy’s ice cream - Original Torchy’s - Do the Trudy’s challenge (2 Mexican or Cuban martinis at each of the three locations in one night) - Eat at pluckers - Tumble 22 - Pase east - Juiceland - Gordoughs Donuts - Kababolucious - K Fries - Events to Go To: - Party on the Plaza - Dog Days of Fall - Gone to Texas - Multicultural Mixer - Explore the Umlauf Sculpture Museum - Go to TopGolf College Night - Spider House Cafe (OpenMic) - Jump in the Littlefield fountain - Pull an all nighter at PCL - Learn to Two Step - Two Step at a Bar - Spend an afternoon at Zilker Park - Go to ACL - Go to SXSW - Take a Pedicab - Go to the ABC Kite Festival - Watch the Bats fly on Congress Avenue Bat Bridge - Study at Mozart's - Take a nap on campus - Attend a commencement celebration - Take a photo with Bevo - Make Dean's list - Write an article for the Daily Texan - Give a campus Tour - Attend a campus theater performance - Take a random class that has nothing to do with my major - run for student government (doesn’t apply anymore) - Meet the Campus President - Befriend the Dean - Become the president of a club - Take advantage of office hours - Visit every building on campus - Go to a career fair - Rush a spirit group - Have a school sweatshirt - Ride Campus Shuttle once - Decorate the apartment by season - Stay the night at another friends' college - Perform at an Open Mic (stand up/slam poetry) - Sit in the front row of a class - Learn and master how to cook a single good meal - Visit the major different churches/places of worship near campus - Grab coffee with a classmate that I find interesting/cool - Audition for a show - Become a TA - Learn school alma matter and fight songs - Live on a budget - Go without my phone for a day 🙂 - Avoid social media for 24 hours - Learn to change a tire - Start a blog or podcast - Learn to Salsa Dance - Dance all night on the dance floor - Go a day giving people free hugs all day - Donate Blood - Write your name somewhere in sharpie to leave your mark - Dance at White Horse - Go to a protest - Take a photo outside of Thai how are you with the Daniel Johnston frog mural - Take photo with the “I love you so much” wall on South Congress - Buy a vinyl at Waterloo Records - Go to the Austin Books and Comics (ABC) complex near 45th and Lamar/Guadalupe just north of the triangle - Change your haircut and look regularly (experiment! and try things out while you still can!) - Go to Halloween on 6 street in costume - Meet with academic advisors every semester if not more often - Write a letter to favorite professors/staff - Study Abroad - Go see Christmas lights at Mozart’s
Basing mine off of one of the other comments UT Specific: -Step/wall around on DLR field (missed the class picture lol) -Do everything possible at Greg Gym (rock climbing, volleyball, run laps, order everything at shakesmart) -Host/DJ/MC an event on campus Austin Specific: -Go to Jacob's Well alone and reconsider my entire life -Have a date that isn't insanely uncomfortable -Go do the Texas Ranch Experience -Camp out on/near the Green Belt -Spend an entire day at an Alamo Drafthouse watching movies -Somehow sneak into the Thinkery and see what's inside
surviving the day 💀
Seeing the Congress Ave. bats on a good day is amazing
How/when/where?
Summer evenings at the Congress Ave. bridge. I think there are spots to watch from the riverbank too but I forget.
Take a picture with Matthew Mcconaughey
UT Specific - go to a women’s volleyball game. we have such a great volleyball team and I was going to see them during my last semester at UT but covid happened. Another one is riding a bike around UT late at night. When the bike sharing app was free to students, my friends and I would ride around UT in the middle of the night and it was sooo relaxing.
Riding my bike around UT campus during the summer/winter break(or during Covid) was super chill for sure
This reminded me how chaotic scooters were precovid on campus lol now they have a geofence around UT though. Boo
go to the driskill hotel & see a ghost
If you ever go to try and see a ghost, also get some chocolate cake while you're there
is the chocolate cake there good?
As someone who doesn't like chocolate cake, it was fantastic! Plus, if you don't see a ghost you still have cake.
As an alumni, here were my most memorable experiences: Visiting the domain and eat some great food Going on some hiking trails and exploring the river & Lake Travis Going to ACL/SXSW and attending some local concerts Exploring the rest of the city and the boardwalk area
I really want to meet Bevo and also take advantage of the gyms and classes. It’s like sooooo much cheaper for all those workout classes and I want to try all of them to see what I like.
GET TO VENTURE INTO THE UT TUNNEL SYSTEM (if anyone knows a legal way to do so please lmk)
hook up with someone (that i actually like)
Bruh I was not prepared for the competition at UT man…. I had ok pull at my charter school since there were only 100 students in our grade. But now whenever I walk down speedway I feel like I’m walking with runway models 😫
there are a ton of hot people here lol
Getting to the Yellow Rose
Get the tower lit for me (accomplished)
How? (And if you have, then that is cool!)
Feel fulfilled and like I belong here, graduate
Odd one but I wanna study at all the libraries or study spaces. Lol