Sapere aude
The Friday before classes began, Tampa honors students kicked off the fall semester with their first social. Students spent the evening outside meeting, mingling, enjoying a live DJ, and eating food catered by Fresh Kitchen. As the night progressed, students participated in lively games of Jenga, cornhole, and sand volleyball. The first years left the social excited about their first experience as UT Honors Students.
Go Spartans!
Pre-covid First-Year Socials
Honors orientation is virtual tonight, 8/27/21, from 6pm-7pm on Zoom. A link was sent to your ut.edu email address multiple times over the last two weeks. If you’re still missing the link after searching spam/your inbox, please write uthonors@ut.edu to ask for the link to the event.
The UT Honors social is still taking place at 8pm in McKay tonight (8/27/21). Covid protocol for this event will be that all students will wear masks, meals are boxed and will be picked up in the McKay kitchen/common area, and all socializing will take place outside McKay in the common outside space and in Plant Park, where students can spread out and distance. There will be no eating inside. Students should keep masks on when interacting with others and not eating. Bring your ID to the social. The Honors Directors will be checking your IDs to ensure you’re in honors. Sign-in protocol will be to scan a QR code with your cell phone. The event is worth 10 ACE points in the Engagement category. If a student does not feel comfortable attending this event, even masked and outside, Honors will be offering other Engagement opportunities throughout the year.
The orientation was recorded here for anyone who missed seeing it:
As we wind down the 2020-2021 academic year, a year challenged by COVID and many precautions to avoid spreading the virus, we replaced our traditional end-of-year event – a social in McKay Hall – with a de-stress event: group yoga in Plant Park. About 50 students participated in the yoga class and enjoyed snacks and drinks afterward.
