Aggie-to-Aggie Advice

justanotherjose
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:37:05 +0000

1. Meal plans aren’t too bad. You will use dinning dollars much more than meal plans. The food here is okay. Imagine the worst version of chick fil a, the worst version of papa john, smash burger, etc… Is it eatable? Yes. Will you get tired of it? Absolutely, so be prepared to spend normal money on different food not covered by the meal plan.

2. I will not lie. A&M does not provide the best party scene of all time, but you can definitely find it if you are looking for it. As for other fun things, there is not much. Ask someone in the more rural side, what they do for fun and they’ll say, “hang out with friends, hunt, swim, go to this restaurant, hike.” So there is definitely other fun things to do, but most of your fun will come from normal traditional things like clubs and sporting events. Which I personally think are a ton of fun, but they don’t happen as often as you’d wish. I still think A&M is a decent amount of fun.

3. All campus events are pretty fun or emotional. Either way they are a good time.

4. Yeah, sororities are about sisterhood and volunteering, most sororities give off the same vibe of being friendly and out going. I think it’s cool, but obviously you have to decide for yourself.

5. All depends on how you are I suppose. I do not think a&m is that easy to make friends in, but with 60,000 people everyone’s experience may vary. I thought I’d have tons of new friends by now, but I have just been hanging out with high school friends, and that seems to be the general consensus around many of my friends.At the end of the day I can only speak for myself and that’s just how I feel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aggies/comments/53quue/a_freshman_needing_help/?st=itci48q5&sh=4f6f7dd9

This was not my post, but it definitely sums my A&M friendship experience. I came from a very diverse(30%white 25%asian 25%hispanic 20%black) type of school. Where most graduates went to UT, so take that as you will.

6. I am Hispanic, I am from mostly from Spain. I look white, I am white. I have a Hispanic name. I do not think anyone treats me differently but honestly I can see how people can feel that. A lot of the African American(75-80%) keep to themselves and do not hang out with people of other race. I am not sure why, I just know it happens.My best friend is from Pakistan, we are tall and are normal guys. Again, I have never felt any discrimination but it definitely does happen in a campus of 60,000 people so just have that in mind. Will the school treat you the differently though? No, no one in administration or the professors will treat you any differently.

7. Okay so in the summer you buy a sports pass (or don’t that’s fine), and you get a plastic card. You take this card to the pulling booth a week before the game and get your physical paper ticket. You then show the ticket to the person who lets you into the game, you also show a student ID(just to prove that you are actually a student at a&m since your ticket will say ‘student’." If you do not want to buy a sports pass you can just “buy” someone else’s sports pass for the game you want to go to. So you just ask on Facebook and reddit A&M groups, “looking to buy sports pass for x game.” There is a ton of people who are selling them do not worry. EX: You can get the new mexico state game sports pass right now for as little as 15 dollars. The tickets cannot be sold for more than face value, which is rarely over $50(max I’ve seen is 60) as the polling booth determines the face value.

8. I’d say off campus is more fun if you have a car. I would say you do save a fair amount of money living off campus, but honestly I am not sure. That is a personal decision as it is mostly financial. I will say however that if you do not have a car, strongly consider living in the apartments close to campus, such as “the rise” and such.

9. Staff will vary obviously. Big classes professors and TA’s won’t be the most helpful. However, In my experience if you are in a small class be ready to be baby’d as if you were in high school ( which is pretty great ).

10. Yep, get a good bike.

Sorry for the bad grammar and illegible sentences. I wrote this at 2:36 in the morning.