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Living the Longhorn Life® Podcast UT Austin's Division of Student Affairs
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Find out how our students are Living the Longhorn Life®: You are here, You do you, You change the world, and how you can join us to Make It Your Texas!
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Hogg Memorial Auditorium Makes a Comeback
Hogg Memorial Auditorium is back and its better than ever! The 90 year-old auditorium is now a premier destination for live music, performing arts and student events following a two-year renovation. Listen to the variety of re-opening festivities that brought this vibrant student life space back to life and meet the alum who helped lead the charge to transform the historic auditorium.
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Esports Arena Unlocks Learning Opportunities
It’s a place to game, but also to develop valuable life and career skills. The new student-focused Alienware Longhorn Esports Arena adds 3,400 square feet of high-performance esports space to the Texas Union. It builds on the success of the esports lounge and unlocks greater learning and career opportunities for all students. Hear why Longhorns and academic partners are excited about the arena’s possibilities that complement students’ pursuits.
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New, Intentionally-designed Spaces
That “you are here” feeling is part of living the Longhorn life. It’s a sense of place and belonging our students get when they explore our intentionally-designed, student-focused spaces. Hear two Longhorns share their favorite aspects of two new spaces giving students a place to find
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Time to Start Living the Longhorn Life!
The start of the new academic year marks a new beginning for our incoming students – when they go from orientation, where they got into a Longhorn State of Mind, to living the Longhorn life as classes begin. To help celebrate this milestone, the Division of Student Affairs – the hub of student life and well-being – is hosting Longhorn Welcome, Aug. 18-26. Hear more about the action-packed week of events serving as UT Austin’s official welcome to campus and introduction to Longhorn spirit. We visit with some excited incoming Longhorns, and our team who is planning the initiative. See the schedule at longhornwelcome.utexas.edu.
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A New Adventure Awaits on the Forty Acres
A new group of Longhorns is beginning their college journey with the Division of Student Affairs — the hub of student life and well-being — as we host new student and family orientations. Hear how these incoming students and families are getting into a Longhorn State of Mind as they embark on this new adventure.
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The Benefits of Living on Campus
There’s nothing like living in on-campus housing — take it from the 2023 President’s Student Employee of the Year Award Winner Ria Goyal, a biochemistry and Plan II Honors major from Waco. As she prepares for graduation, this senior resident assistant is reflecting on her four years living on campus — three of those spent assisting other residents. We caught up with her to ask her what makes living on campus so special and different from living off campus.