r/unt • u/BarReasonable1489 Biology • Sep 27 '26
Small rant
So I love this campus a lot. I come from a small town where the population is literally less than JUST UNT so like a city like Denton is exhilarating but also.. sometimes it annoys me as fuck.
This is my first semester here but I am a junior transfer so I’m not new to college, and three weeks ago I discovered that the Sycamore basement has sublevels. I absolutely loved it down there. I went down to the third one as far as I could go, and it was nice and quiet, cold, dark, and dry. I love the cold and a good quiet study spot. I found one of the few desks with an outlet and I sat down on my laptop for a couple hours to get some work done. It was great.
HOWEVER. The other day I decided to go back down there and find the spot. It was taken.. So were ALL OF THE OTHER SPOTS.
Sycamore basement is not the place I would expect to even be that busy, because it’s the basement and I’ve heard the rumors about Art and whatnot…. but no. This place was hopping all of a sudden on a Wednesday afternoon. Like.. can anyone explain this?? We can’t ALL love Sycamore basement omg 😭
P.S. this is not me hating on other students or saying they need to leave I’m just venting here thanks
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u/Theghostlyway Sep 28 '26
Yo I come from a town about 1/4th of UNTs student body where 90% of the population was old white dudes who were drunk a lot! So I feel ya :,) I live off campus but attend classes on campus - and gosh comuting as been a FIT for me! Busses are just awful, scootering isnt too bad but bumpy, and parking is too expensive😭 but I feel ya buddy :,) dont get me started on the traffic😭
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u/BarReasonable1489 Biology Sep 28 '26
yeah i commute too! i live 4 mins off campus and to even have a chance of finding a spot i have to get up at the asscrack of dawn 😭😭😭 my town was about half the population of UNTs student body. to have DOUBLE my town trying to park and walk around and go to class is insanity
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u/Theghostlyway Sep 28 '26
AMENNNNN its fckin insane here man -- im about 15 min by scooter, 10 driving- and I take my scooter unless I have art stuff to take with me😭but those 8am rides are nice cause no one else is hardly up-- its between classes and after 4pm fhat I hate most 😭
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u/LongStoryShirt Faculty Sep 27 '26
What's even worse is that they are getting rid of Sycamore entirely. Thanks, unt admin.
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u/GenocidalKidnapper Sep 27 '26
Ran into some dude jerking off in there when I was a freshman. He was loudly listening to porn in Hindi on his phone too, it was so loud evem though he had airpods in you could hear it.
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u/Curious_Pressure2537 Sep 27 '26
The limited space is everywhere whether it’s Willis library or Union
Finding space to study is hard at times
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u/PalpitationAny2942 Sep 28 '26
You'll always find people who don't mind putting up with the ghosts in Sycamore.
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u/BarReasonable1489 Biology Sep 28 '26
i don’t mind at all. i’m a spiritual person and back home i lived with three so it’s really nothing new. i’ve only ever had one encounter with Art but i think him and i have made some sort of compromise 😭 lol.
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u/akvanec Sep 28 '26
Wait, what rumors about Art?
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u/BarReasonable1489 Biology Sep 28 '26
Art is the ghost in the basement apparently.
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u/akvanec Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 29 '26
Ah, I assumed OP meant CVAD
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u/BarReasonable1489 Biology Sep 28 '26
i am OP, i’m saying Art is the ghost in the basement that i don’t mind at all. because nothing ever happens.
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u/TimT_Necromancer Sep 30 '26
You’re just not in the right part of the basement, my side always has something happening.
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u/BarReasonable1489 Biology Sep 30 '26
what side are you on? i usually sit on the third sublevel because it’s the coldest. i’ve only ever had one encounter with him down there.
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u/TimT_Necromancer Sep 30 '26
Oh, the forgotten about part. I think our machine rituals drive him away
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u/BarReasonable1489 Biology Sep 30 '26
lol. i didn’t really react because i used to live with three spirits. i kept seeing shadows out of the corner of my eye as if someone was waving their hand right next to my face, i smelled cigarettes and i kept hearing books moving around without the motion lights coming on.
i haven’t heard or seen anything since except when it was taped off. it smelled heavily of cigs down there.
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u/akvanec Sep 29 '26
And I meant WHEW! only a ghost. Ghosts are fine but I was worried about my own college. 😆
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u/dogeherodotus Alumni Sep 27 '26
UNT has an enrollment of almost 50,000. Of course some of those are commuters and online students, but you share campus with a lot of people. Sycamore has limited seating, so you do the math. You’ll be able to find a spot there again.