re: Non-Ags : Would you rather spend your 4 years of undergrad at Texas or Texas A&M?

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However, I wouldn’t want to go to college here.

It’s a shitty place to be a poor college student, crammed in the middle of a concrete jungle downtown, paying out the arse for a shoebox-sized apartment and dealing with smelly bums on the way to class.

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Not true at all. The campus is just north of downtown and doesn't have a downtown feel at all to it. Hyde Park is a great, quiet place to live and I never ran into "smelly bums" on my way to class. You have a couple homeless people that hang out in one spot next to the Stephen F Austin mural by Jamba Juice and there's one guy that always sits by the Co-Op on the Drag but thats it.

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I advise my path: go to college at A&M and enjoy a real college town experience, where you can live in a house for next to nothing, experience no crime, and get an equivalent degree without the extra expense or hassle.

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Equivalent degree lol, Texas has better engineering and undergraduate business schools, no thanks. I was CS and there was no way I would have picked A&M over UT. Plus students can be there year round when they intern during the summer. Campus does have a real college town feel, and I was unaffected by any crime in the Hyde Park area.

Oh and I enjoyed sixth street, Rainey, ACL, SXSW, and pretty much a concert every other weekend as an undergrad.

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Lol Austin's feel and vibe is not like Atlanta or Nashville. It's pretty small.

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Either you haven’t been to Austin in a while or you’re lying. I don’t really know Atlanta but Austin feels quite a bit bigger than Nashville because it is quite a bit bigger

The area around the UT campus still has a very urban feel. It’s densely populated with tons of traffic and not a lot of green space. That’s fine and I like Hyde Park north of campus, just wasn’t for me as far as the college experience.

I hate to say this but the degree mill is starting to show warts. UT is very much in the running these days.

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Either you haven’t been to Austin in a while or you’re lying. I don’t really know Atlanta but Austin feels quite a bit bigger than Nashville because it is quite a bit bigger

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Disagree. Cesar Chavez to campus is a 1.5 mile walk. That's the south end of downtown all the way through "uptown" to campus. There's a lot more to Austin than just downtown, but if we are talking about the urban feel, it doesn't have a big city vibe at all.

Now if you want a smaller rural town feel then it's not for you. There is always a lot going on.

Shut up bitch

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A&M’s involvement is closer to bringing donuts to the annual board meeeting and collecting a check for doing nothing, than it is anything else.

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You can say nonsense like this all you want. It doesn't make it true. There are 9 board members at the company the mages the PUF and its split 6/3 just like the payout. The CEO is Aggie Britt Harris IV. He's managing the PUF. An Aggie. You can say thank you now.

Just curious but doesn’t Texas Tech and UH now pull from the PUF too?

No, they don't and it is because A&M and tu run the state and don't like to share.

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From Wiki

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Other Texas public universities—notably all institutions in the University of Houston System, the University of North Texas System, the Texas State System, the Texas Tech System, and some UT System and Texas A&M System institutions—are prohibited by law from sharing the income from this endowment, but in 1984 a second fund was created to one day serve those schools: the Higher Education Fund (also known as the Higher Education Assistance Fund), a much smaller fund. Addition of the other university systems or individual institutions to the Permanent University Fund would require an amendment to the Texas Constitution or a two-thirds vote in the legislature.

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I would rather live in Austin at 23-28 as a single dude


I would rather go to college at A&M

You are blissfully clueless