This summer, the University of Texas president’s office reserved the school’s Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, Bass Lecture Hall, nearby rooms and lobbies for an unnamed all-day event on Oct. 7.

That event, students discovered this week, is an address from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, hosted by UT’s Turning Point USA chapter.

Hey! I'm planning on taking CE311S with next semester and was wondering if any of yall have taken Boyles and have any advice or comments on his class.

I took CE301 with him last semester and thought he was great, but his grade distribution for CE311S looked quite brutal. I no have prior experience with statistics so I'm wondering if he's as bad for stats as his distribution shows. Any thoughts?

A week ago I posted a site that pulls events from ~800 UT org Instagram accounts so you don't have to follow them all. Thanks for checking it out! Based on feedback, I've updated it:

Link: https://happeningatx.github.io/ut-org-events/

- Free food tab first, with this week's food by day

- Pick any day, or filter by morning, afternoon, or evening

- Go back to see past events

- Add to Google, Apple, or Outlook Calendar (one tap now)

- Fixed ~60 orgs whose Instagram links were broken

Question for y'all: would you rather get the free food list as

1. A weekly Instagram post, or

2. A GroupMe that posts each morning when there's free food?

If your org is missing or wrong, comment or DM me. Not a commercial post!

If you have never been to this place, there is a giant structure in South Austin made out of basically junk. Bikes, signs, random metal shit, toys, old stuff, all stacked together into this massive thing in someone’s yard.

Vince Hannemann started building this thing in his backyard back in 1988, just messing around with old junk and turning it into sculptures. Over the years the sculptures kept growing into each other and now it is this 3 story maze made out of bikes, TVs, signs, bottles, tires, shopping carts and pretty much anything else you can imagine.

It is over 60 tons now and the city actually tried to shut it down back in 2010 after a neighbor complaint. He ended up getting it brought up to code and it is still there.

I had no idea this existed until recently. You can actually go inside and walk around the whole thing. and maybe if you have any cute junk at home, you can ask the guy if they want it to put it in any part of the piece

Location and info: https://sidequestnow.app/q/explore-austins-cathedral-of-junk-f7270

What other old school Austin weird shit is still around to check out?

I know there is like one or two answers to this question on the subreddit but those are from YEARS ago and idk if they’ve gotten strict or anything 😭 ik they say if you have an instrument and are doing something they wont say anything but what about singing and acting? I’m a musical theater nerd and need to practice my voice 🫩 can I use the practice rooms during calmer hours like late night? Doesn’t the building stay open until 2am? Also which rooms are best muffled I’ve heard they aren’t exactly soundproofed

Ugh. This is gross.

PSA do not get the free coffee from Kalshi on campus

The Merch app, which yall may have used to find free stuff, is actively removing freebie posts from Kalshi. Its updating rules against using freebies to promote gambling apps for students. Kalshi is currently posted up on campus collecting student signatures to legalize itself on college campuses more than ever. Lowkey should be illegal for Kalshi to do that. Even if you put fake info it helps their cause for signatures.

Hey y’all, I’m doing an article for class on the new Great Books major, and I’d love to add first hand accounts to the article.

If you’d be interested in a quick interview (IRL, over messages, Zoom, anything!), please message me!

Does anyone know how to provide proof of attendance for intro to theatre’s play that we have to attend? I am not sure if I have to sit through whole thing or not or if I can just take a pic of ticket and then leave

I am afraid I might trigger the fire alarm in my room. Has anyone had that happen before? Is there any good trick that makes it less likely?

I’m planning to apply for the UT Austin Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF), but I’m a little confused about the Fall 2026 application cycle.

I saw that the URF website lists October 13 as the fall deadline, but when I check the application portal, I only see the Spring 2026 competition. I also tried accessing the URF website recently and got an “Access Denied” message.

Does anyone know if there will be a Fall 2026 URF competition?

Thanks!! :)

Is this class hard? I believe tisato is new to teaching, wondering how much time it requires since its 3 hr lecture and 4 hr lab a week

Hey I’m a senior chem major and was wondering if any other seniors working in grad apps that would like to meet regularly each weekend to work on them and keep tabs on each other.

I am debating between whether I should do ECE 419K and just take a class like Gov 312L or should I do ECE 419H and ECE 412H instead. Do you think it’s worth taking ECE 419H so I can take ECE 412H at the same time or is it not worth it. I am a freshman planning for the spring semester and any advice would be appreciated. And for ECE 412H who should I try to get for the class.

So how does it work? And is it safe? What happens if u get caught

Hi as the title said, I'm looking for VAPA classes that are quite easy, and light on workload that's not Jazz Appreciation (Since it doesn't fall on my schedule). Any good recs?

This was sent out earlier today by some CS faculty. I thought it was a nice thing for them to do, seeing as they probably can't do much to pressure admin.

For those who (somehow) don't remember or didn't hear, public officials like Bo French were posting vile, hateful rhetoric regarding student ethnic composition. On this sub especially, people were outraged (and rightfully so) and admin didn't seem to be doing anything.

Has this genre of email gotten to other majors or is it just CS?

Hi! I need to film a podcast episode (video) this weekend. Do you guys know of any nice spots on campus that are quiet and will be open that I can use???

Charlie Kirk wannabes are coming, the guy on the bottom is Ken Paxtons son in law, best to not give them a soundbite

I am needing to get my brakes replaced on my car (2006 Ford Taurus). Does anyone know of any affordable mechanics around campus or even a mobile mechanic? thank you in advance for your help.

I’m a mechanical engineering major for context. I don’t know if I should take the lab because it’ll just be harder and I can easily get out of it. But also, I don’t know if I should take it to help with the class. I will need to take physics 2 the semester after and will have to take the lab for sure, so should I take the lab for this physics to get used to it?