Tips for Making the Most of Your Space!

So, it is finals week and between studying for exams, many people are packing up to go back home for the summer. While I am one of those people and I have been living on double shot espressos for about a week, I am already planning my decoration for my apartment for fall semester when I move back in. Why? Potentially a combination of lack of sleep, an over-abundance of creativity, and just wanting to have an entire summer to plan and organize where I want to keep things so I am not scrambling around midterms trying to find things that haven’t been moved for an entire half semester. What some call organized chaos is what others call a disaster area.

Are you going to be this guy?

When moving in to your new place, whether a dorm or an apartment, it is important to keep a few things in mind. It takes a lot longer to set your decorations up than it does to tear it all down at the end of the year when you have to move out (unless you are living there over the summer!) In honor of UT Tyler’s new housing option called Eagle’s Landing, I have made a list of helpful tips for redecorating your place while making the most of your space!

A Student's Letter To Parents

 First, let me say that I am approaching this article from a very unique standpoint and it deserves some commentary beforehand so as to have my thoughts make the most possible sense. First, I have spent way more time in college than I should have on account of having switched majors, as well as for the fact that my degree searching took me across two states. This journey caused a severe delay in my expected graduation date of 2013 ... and I started in 2005-2006. I hope you might listen to my perspective as I look forward to being a dad someday, I really do. I understand that I am going to have to watch my kid go from being wholly dependent on me; to likely know that they think that ( while trusting that he/she/they love and respecting me ) that I don't “get" his/her trials, tribulations, and difficulties. Or, who knows, we could be thick as thieves? The point is that I'll have to watch him or her go off to college.

Tips for staying healthy in dorms!

Living in the dorms means living in close quarters with many people.

This increases one’s chances of getting sick very much.

I am of the lucky ones who has survived the dorm sickness of the first semester.

Here are some tips to help you survive this semester without getting sick:

1. Sleep.

Pulling constant all-nighters will not keep your health great. Try to get at least 6 hours or more a night.

2. Caffeine

Drinking too much caffeine can be harmful. So watch your caffeine intake.

3. Keep your room clean!

“Dorm rooms can be a breeding ground for all kinds of germs. It's communal living, so you usually have roommates and suitemates, and germs spread fast. Also, many dorms are used year-round for summer sessions and other educational programs, so when you first move in, you don't know how clean it really is and who lived in it last.” – Susan Ott

*Don’t clean your room for Health and Safety’s. KEEP it clean ALL semester!

4. Eat Healthy

Getting the vitamins you need is very important to stay healthy. If you don’t want to fruit or vegetables, buy multivitamins! But if you do go out and get some fruit to eat for snackage while you are studying!

Stay Healthy Patriots!

O-Hall Three Bedroom Tour Vlog

Three Bedroom O-Hall Tour!!! Take a look at what it really looks like to live in a three bedroom at The University of Texas at Tyler! I hope you like it!!!

Courtney's College Vlog: Ornelas Hall dorm Tour 1

So for those of you wondering to your self "self... I wonder what  it looks like to actually live in a college dorm?" I hope you find this video helpful! These are two students currently attending UT Tyler who were gracious enough to share their rooms with us! If you have any questions feel free to ask.
P.s.This is the first video I have ever edited!!!