The Tower’s Glow

I was leaving the PCL (The Perry-Castañeda Library located on campus) roughly around 3:30 one morning. Having consumed copious amounts of caffeine, I was feeling defeated by the exam that was approaching in only a few hours. As I walked slowly back to my house attempting to replay the information I had just reviewed in my head over and over again, I looked up to see an inspiring sight—the Tower, the center point of The University of Texas at Austin, glowing in an orange light which serves as a symbol of accomplishment (an athletic victory, a graduation ceremony, or things alike). In that moment, I realized the point of slaving away in the library until 3:30 in the morning; I AM a part of the Tower glowing orange with victory.

The Tower lit orange with a number 1 to commemorate the 2012 golf national championship at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.

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What’s for Dinner?

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Last spring I was giving a campus tour to a group of third graders visiting from a small town in east Texas. We were stopped outside of Gregory Gym, an area of campus oversaturated with our “famous” squirrels, when one little boy came up to me and tugged my hand. “Miss,” he said with a sincere look in his eyes, “Do you shoot the squirrels and cook them for dinner?” I smiled at let him know we did not, but the kid had a point, and I was low in Dine in Dollars.