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Hey. I just receieved mail from University of Texas about their Honors Colloquium that they're having this summer. I was wondering what people had to say about it that had been before? Is it informative, is it fun? What all do you do there? Thanks in advance for any responses.

By Tanman (Tanman) on Friday, May 16, 2003 - 09:42 pm: Edit

I dont know if you've seen this but this is a story about the colloquium from '99:

http://www.utexas.edu/admin/opa/news/99newsreleases/nr_199907/nr_honors990722.html

By Brd (Brd) on Friday, May 16, 2003 - 09:50 pm: Edit

I was a mentor at last summer's Honor's colloquium. You get put up for several days in Jester center. You will be put in a group with a couple of undergraduate student mentors. Our students had plenty of questions -- it's a good opportunity to ask questions directly to people who are already in college. There is the opportunity to go to two "classes" of your choice given by UT professors to get some idea of what real classes are like at UT. There's also a big lunch with many of the faculty from the college you indicated interest in, so you get a chance to meet and talk to alot of the faculty one on one. There are some scheduled social activities over the course of the colloquium, culminating with a big event in Gregory Gym, plus just "hang out" time in Jester every night so you can get a chance to know your fellow colloquists.

Naturally, a few students were just too cool for all of this. But most of my students seemed to have a really good time and found it very informative.

By Shilpa1125 (Shilpa1125) on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 12:12 am: Edit

Thanks for the help! I'm pretty sure I'm going now.