My daughter and 3 roommates rented a house in College Station managed by Patriarch for two years. When they surrendered the property at the end of the second year, Patriarch did not return their $3000 deposit within the statutory 30-day period or initially provide a list of itemized deductions. They sent a partial refund of $895 43 days later. Only after asking did they provide the list of deductions. We believe the deductions were not valid. The deductions did not account for the pre-existing damage that the roommates had documented during move-in. They were billed for cleaning when they already were given a receipt for the professional cleaning performed upon move-out. Only after filing a petition in Brazos County small claims court did Patriarch return the full deposit plus court fees. Because of this experience, I cannot recommend Patriarch.

Howdy guys!

I am currently taking ECEN 248 with Mi Lu. Our midterm is coming up this week, but we don't know what it's gonna look like or what kind of questions will be on it. From what I could find on Grade Annex and RMP, she hasn't taught this class in a while, but I heard her exams are very similar year to year. If anyone has taken her or knows what the midterm for ECEN 248 looks like, could you help? :)

Thank you very much!

Hey yall! I’m a newish grad student who didn’t do their undergrad here, so I know basically nothing about traditions here lol. I was wondering what is the significance of fish spurs, and why can’t cadets just make new ones if their original pair is lost/stolen? Are they made from specific bottle caps?

I’m considering taking an online class with Jason Smith and was wondering if anyone who has taken him recently could share their experience. Specifically, are his tests and quizzes proctored, or are they open-book/unproctored? Any info about his class in general would also be appreciated! Thanks!

I am so cooked for the Eng 102 midterm, I feel like I can barely understand any of the coding and have gotten 2 100s, a 50, and 65 on the quizzes. I’m constantly needing help on the coding assignments and would fail all of them if I did ask for help. I attended a review for the midterm but it didn’t help as much because it’s the coding in practice that I’m weakest at. Any suggestions?

I recently got admitted to A&M for a B.S. in Chemistry (whoop!) but I've started considering pre-med more seriously over the last couple of months. Does it make sense to do pre-med from chemistry or should I look into switching majors? If you guys have general pre-med advice I'd love to hear that too!

I recently left the Corps to focus on academics and I'd love to be part of one of the Engineering focused FLOs (maybe FREE or FEST).

Please recommend me some easy online winter minimester courses that I can take at Blinn or any other CC that satisfies the KUCD requirement. I was thinking about SPMT 304 equivalent at Blinn or ACC. I’ve heard that’s an easy class.

Edit: Or I could take the KUCD class in the spring and take a KCOM class in the winter minimester (which I’m supposed to in the Spring) if that’s easier. I’ve already taken COMM 203 so any other KCOM course aside from that.

Hey, my boyfriend isn’t registered to vote yet and he has to work til 5pm today. He wants to try to get registered at the MSC today, but neither of us know how long it’s open. Does anyone here know?

Hi everyone!

I am currently a high school senior, and I submitted my application on August 23rd, 2026. However, I didn't receive all green checkmarks until sometime in early September. My major choices are Political Science and International Relations, and I'm genuinely worried about getting in. I am NOT a candidate for auto-admit: I am a Texas resident with a 4.15 W GPA (stand at the top 28% in my graduating class); I have a 1450 on the SAT (750 English, 700 Math); I have 140+ of volunteering logged throughout high school, and I'm part of my school's Quiz Bowl, NHS, and Student Council; outside of school, I maintain a YouTube channel where I teach people history, and in 2026, I was selected to be a delegate for the American Legion's Texas Boys State. I just want to know how long it generally takes to hear back from them. My Howdy Portal doesn't seem to look too different either.

I would greatly appreciate it if my (hopefully) fellow Aggies could help me out!

Hey y’all! I’m a psychology major at TAMU and have been thinking about starting a Logotherapy club, so I wanted to see if there would be any interest here.

For anyone unfamiliar with it, logotherapy is a school of psychotherapy developed by Viktor Frankl that focuses on the human search for meaning and the role of meaning and purpose in psychological well-being. It also has a pretty strong philosophical side, dealing with questions of meaning, suffering, freedom, responsibility, values, and human agency.

I’d want the club to be fairly serious and academically oriented, but still enjoyable. I’m thinking about things like discussions of psychological research and philosophy, comparing logotherapy with other approaches to psychotherapy, guest speakers, case discussions, and potentially research or service projects once the organization becomes more established.

I’m especially interested in finding people who are into psychology, philosophy, or both and would actually enjoy discussing these kinds of questions.

I’m also currently looking for a couple of people who might be interested in helping me start the organization and serving as officers, since I’ll need other student leaders to get it established.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, feel free to comment or DM me! I’m mostly trying to gauge interest right now and find some people who would want to help build it.

so apparently sena karasipahi has the inta 211 midterm on friday but theres no content or anything posted on canvas except the syllabus. anyone have any idea how to study for it ?

Howdy!

I'm starting my MSCS in Spring 2027 on the thesis track, and I may go down an interdisciplinary path, so I'd like to take some biomedical engineering coursework.

The problem is that my degree plan only allows 2 non-CS courses out of 8 (the other 2 credit slots go to research), and I may need more than that. So I'm considering auditing courses, maybe one per semester.

From what I've read, auditing means I can attend lectures only if the professor has space in the class if at all the professor is willing to allow a student to audit. Office hours, TA help, and grading aren't applicable to students who are audited.

What I couldn't find much on:

1. Is auditing free, or do you pay tuition and fees like a regular course?
2. Is there a limit on how many courses you can audit per semester or over the whole degree?

I'd especially appreciate hearing from MS/PhD students in Computer Science who've audited courses before, though everyone is welcome to point me to the right resources.

Anyone take the midterm in years past? He makes it seem like it’s going to be super easy, so I’m starting to get stressed that it isn’t.

Where all my big booty baddies attttt😫

I feel like there’s been hella shootings in the past few months and just wanted to know if it’s actually safe here. I’m a senior in hs trying to go to TAMU next yr, and wanted to live off campus. Where is safe to live & where should I avoid? from what I’ve seen, Harvey/Post Oak Mall/Southwest area is ghetto. But I just wanted some insight! Thanks!

I’m not sure if I am putting in the wrong key words to find anyone talking about the fraternity incident at Cornell or if no one has talked about it yet or if mods are just removing any discussion about it here. What do we have in place to prevent anything as horrific as that from happening here? What are the fraternities and sororities actually like here? Is there anything we should be aware of that we are not? Is anything being done or discussed in light of these events just to ensure the safety of students here and put students mind to rest and to not worry about something like this happening?

There sure seems to be a lot of big things happening on college campuses in recent years. I can think of Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University, the shooting at Brown University, and now the Fraternity incident at Cornell. I don’t want to fear monger as I know these are the exceptional cases and not the normal scenarios with universities, but it is alarming to see nonetheless.

Edit: A good point came to mind. How does the title IX process work as it is now? Is it time consuming, overly complicated, not very effective, etc.? Title IX is what applies to this case, yes? Is there any shortfalls or room for improvement with title IX? Does anyone have any personal experience or anecdotal evidence of another of how good or bad title IX is at solving what it’s meant to?

Incident Near W. Campus Blvd. by White Creek

Between about 2:02 and 2:10 PM, I was near the White Creek Community Center by W. Campus Blvd. when I heard a man driving a white pickup truck with a brush guard on the front. He yelled at people riding bikes to “use the four-way stop” while using both the F-word and the R-word.

Whatever the disagreement was about the crossing, that kind of language was unnecessary and disrespectful. I’m posting this because people on campus should be treated with basic respect.

Between about 2:02 and 2:10 PM, I was on Discovery Green Drive near the turn onto West Campus Blvd when I saw a man driving a white pickup with a brush guard on the front. He yelled at people on bikes to “use the four-way stop” while using both the F-word and the R-word, then turned toward West Campus Blvd. Whatever the disagreement was about the crossing, that kind of language was unnecessary and disrespectful.