Monthly Archives: August 2011

September 9th is the Twelfth Class Day

The official add/drop period is officially over!  You do have until the 12th class day, September 9,  to drop a course and have it deleted from your record.  After September 9, any class you drop will show up as a Q on your record.  You are limited to 6 Q-drops while at UT, so it is best to save your Q for an emergency situation.  You cannot Q-drop a course after Nov. 1.

When dropping courses, please keep in mind that you must be registered for 12 hours to be a full-time student.

Texas 4000

The LIVESTRONG Texas 4000 team will be recruiting for the 2013 team this Fall! Come out to an info session to learn how you can fight cancer by bike riding from Austin, TX to Anchorage, AK!

Info Session dates:

Wednesday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. (Location: PAR 203)
Tuesday, Sep. 6 at 7 p.m. (Location: CPE 2.216)
Wednesday, Sep. 7 at 7 p.m. (Location: PAR 1)
Tuesday, Sep. 13 at 7 p.m. (Location: CPE 2.216)
Wednesday, Sep. 14 at 7 p.m. (Location: PAR 203)
Tuesday, Sep. 20 at 7 p.m. (Location: CPE 2.208)
Wednesday, Sep. 21 at 7 p.m. (Location: MEZ 1.120)

Applications are due at midnight on Friday, Sep. 23.
Applications will be posted soon on: http://www.texas4000.org/riders/apply
Join our facebook event at: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167460383332491

PS – We are very proud that LAHers Jamie Hill and Julia Shatilo will be participating in the Texas 4000 ride in the summer of 2012!

LAH Christian Prayer Group

Each week Christians in LAH get together to pray for the LAH community. We are a group of Christ-followers committed to authentic community and missional living on campus, and we would love for more LAHers to join us. We meet from 5 to 6 pm each Tuesday in the Campus House of Prayer (second floor), located behind Mellow Mushroom on the Drag. All are welcome!
For more information contact Jenny Dietz at jdietz@mail.utexas.edu or 512-971-9119.

McKinsey & Co. Info Session for LAH Seniors Graduating in Dec or May Thurs. Sept 1

Invitation to McKinsey & Company Info Session on Thursday, September 1: McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm, will be holding an information session for all interested students at 7:00 pm on September 1 in Classroom 103 of the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.  Consultants from McKinsey will be on hand to talk about full-time business analyst positions and to introduce you to who we are and what we do to get the fall recruiting season started. This info session is geared towards students graduating in December 2011 or May 2012 and seeking full-time employment, but all are welcome. We will be back on campus in late October for another info session about our summer internship program. Please contact Jennifer Dunseith at jennifer_dunseith@mckinsey.com with any questions. We look forward to seeing you!

McKinsey works with leading corporations, non-profit institutions, and governments on issues of critical importance to senior management.  We help our clients solve strategic, organizational, and operational problems in order to make significant and enduring improvements in their performance.  What is unique about McKinsey is that we consider the people who make up the firm to be as important as the clients with whom we work.  We seek to work with truly dynamic individuals — the most talented scholars and the most compelling leaders — to create an environment that is a great place both to learn and to have fun.

Acts of Sharing – Trade Books, Sports Equipment and More

Many of you have asked how to get textbooks less expensively and we finally have an answer for you!  Check out Acts of Sharing as a way for you to clean up your room and get rid of textbooks or find new ones.  LAH alum Brian Boitmann started up this organization and it seems like a wonderful way to trade textbooks and other items.  Here is some more info:

ActsofSharing.com is the hub for LAH students, and for that matter, UT students and organizations, to share and borrow items together.  We realized that rather than selling back our textbooks only to buy them again this next semester, it made more sense to just connect with our fellow classmates and share the books we needed for our new classes instead.  Not only can you share textbooks, but sporting goods, outdoor equipment, movies, games–just about anything you like, a free craigslist for friends and students at UT!  And by sharing and borrowing what we need from other Longhorns we know, we can save money and live in tighter community with each other on campus.

Horns Helping Horns, this is the culture we want to have on campus, and we believe that what starts here, changes things in a BIG way.
Join us on the LAH and University of Texas communities at www.ActsofSharing.com!

Texas Mock Trial

Dear students,

The Undergraduate Mock Trial Associations is a competitive organization that sends teams to state, regional, and national competitions. This organization has been in existence for over 20 years now. We first registered with the university in 1991. Basically, we study a case and compete against teams from other schools while pretending to be lawyers. We have a lot of fun while learning about courtroom procedures. Our organization allows students interested in law and advocacy to compete in mock trials against other colleges and universities. Participation in mock trial will give students an opportunity to learn from real trial attorneys, strengthen their understanding of the la,w and enhance their public speaking abilities.

If you are interested in learning more then stop by our table on the West Mall. We will be happy to answer any and all of your questions. Please come to our information sessions which will be held on Tuesday, September 6th and Wednesday, September 7th at 7pm in a to be announced location.
The try out packet will be posted on our website, texasmocktrial.org, soon.  Try outs will be Friday September 9th,  Saturday September 10th, and Sunday September 11th in a to be announced location.

Please contact us or come to the information sessions if you are interested. We look forward to seeing you there!

Hook’em!


Elizabeth Fletcher
President, Texas Mock Trial
Liberal Arts Honors/ Government
Psychology B.A.
The University of Texas at Austin
832.767.9797 I eafletcher107@gmail.com

LAH Fall Welcome Lunch

LAHers, come welcome our incoming first year students at the Fall Welcome Lunch!

All LAHers are invited to attend.  This will also be a chance for mentors and mentees to meet up, if they have not done so already.

The luncheon will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 23nd from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm in the Texas Union Ballroom.

Our luncheon is a ‘come when you can and stay as long as you want’ affair.  If  your Reading Round-Up goes until Noon, join us at Noon.

Please RSVP your attendance to lahonors@austin.utexas.edu by Tuesday, August 16.