Get Familiar with the Recruitment ABC's!

Hey y'all! We hope everyone is having a great start to their summer and getting excited for rush! Because we know that recruitment is something that will be on everyone’s minds for the next few weeks, we made a list of topics that often come up during recruitment. Read over this ABC list of fun things that often come up during recruitment week; if you’re nervous about any of the potential conversations you’ll be having, this can help ease your worry!

A - Away games, ACL Music Festival, Austin Chronicle festivals, Austin Eats food tour, Austin Helicopter tour

B - Barton Springs, Blues on the Green, Basketball/Baseball season, Big/Little, the Boardwalk, Bananarchy

C - Camp, classes, concerts in Austin, Calloway, Castillian, Cheese classes at Antonelli’s

D - Deep Eddy pool, the drag, dorms, Duren dorm, Drive-in Theater, Dolce Neve

E - Extracurricular activities (high school and prospectively in college!)

F - Football season, food trucks, Float Fest, Flyboarding, Fountain Park

G - The Greenbelt, Graffiti walls, Ghost Tour

H - Housing, Hamilton Pool, Hardin House, Hula Hut, hydrobiking on the lake, Hawaiian Falls

I - Ice cream (Amy’s!), involvement on campus, IMAX movies, Inner space cavern, Indoor Skydiving

J - Jacob’s Well swimming hole, jogging the hike-and-bike trail at Lady Bird Lake

K - Kayaking, Kinsolving dorm, Krause Springs swimming hole

L - Lady Bird Lake, Lake Austin/Travis, the Long Center

M - Mozart’s, movies, Mount Bonnell, moms, McKinney Falls swimming hole

N - Nighttime bat watching, New movies at Alamo Drafthouse

O - OU/Texas Weekend (GET EXCITED!!),

P - Parents, Pitch ‘N Putt, paddleboarding, parent’s weekend, Pinballz arcade, Peter Pan mini golf, Pedernales State Park

Q - Quidditch (UT has a successful Quidditch team)

R - Round Up, roommates, restaurants in Austin, Roller Derby, Ride a Rocket

S - Student government, sisterhood, Sno Beach snowcones, study abroad, SRD, Salt Lick, State Capital, socials, San Jacinto dorm, Summer Cinema, SXSW

T - Tailgating, Trail of Lights, traveling for games, The Thinkery, Tillery Street Plant Co.

U - Unplugged at The Grove, Uchi/Uchiko, Union Underground bowling

V - Vacation, volunteering

W - Whole Foods cooking classes, Water (and how much you’ll want it during recruitment week... it’ll come up a lot, trust us!), Wimberley Blue Hole

X - How X-cited you are for school!

Y - [frozen] Yogurt places, yoga

Z - Zumba, Zipline Adventures at Lake Travis, Zilker Zephyr, Zilker Summer Musical

Not only are these fun things to ask or talk about during your recruitment experience, but they are things you can participate in this summer while you’re visiting UT, or that you can look forward to when you get to Austin for good! These next four years are going to be some of the most fun of your life, and this is only a small snapshot of what you have to look forward to.

We hope this has been helpful. Don’t stress over recruitment - get excited for it!!

Much love,

Blakeley Galbraith and McKenzie Edwards (Zeta Area Recruitment Team)