I had a buddy in college whose piece of shit GM sedan (Regal? not sure) only reliably ran on 4-6 cylinders. Soon after the manufacturer came out with the 4-6-8 tech. That was amusing. It saves no fuel.
In my experience, all housing sucks. It's virtually a rite of passage unless you're wealthy enough to put your kid in a high-rise luxury condo. Best I can recall was on-campus housing at Tyler, but even then they tried to gouge us on move-out. I've had two kids in private dorms (West Campus) which kind of look OK from the outside but in reality it's mid-century prison interior design, and we tried 3 of them. Then they both moved off campus to nearby duplexes and other hovels, and they're still bouncing around between those. I consider it a character building exercise.
In my experience UT is pretty amenable to students transferring within the university. My daughter changed minors, which is probably not illustrative, but my son CAP'd in to Psych and has gotten the green light to transfer to a major that CAP would have never gotten him into in the first place. His grades are merely "good". I'm not sure the risk is as significant as @scramblyn seems to think it is. It's a fair conversation, though.
Those schools are so popular for CAP they may require you to start summer school right after high school graduation. I believe my daughter did 6 hrs summer, 9 hrs fall, and 15 hrs spring.
I've mentioned it before, but a friend's kid was top of his class at a highly regarded private school in the west Austin 'burbs. 1590 SAT. Was not admitted to UT EE/CS. Got a full ride to GaTech in the same path. Needless to say, he jumped on the GaTech offer. It's probably the superior school for that discipline anyway.
Holy crap. That was terrifying. Glad to hear your boy is on the mend, @pops . Closest I can recall with my kids was a rabies scare, a broken collarbone, and a freaky antibiotic reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. None were near as serious as what your boy went through.
If things are still the way they were a few years ago, anyone who can choose UTSA and maybe UTA had better have their childhood video game trigger finger in shape. Those spots fill up almost immediately -- I want to say within an hour of opening up?
Yup, both our younger kids were capped, one to UTSA, one to Tyler. Both are nearing graduation at UT, one borderline summa cum laude (and one ahem not but bless his heart).
I used to buy and sell mid-fi and hi-fi gear on eBay and audiogon for kicks (and profit). Especially with the high end stuff the cost of shipping was something I'd gladly eat to facilitate the deal. I might pay $1.3K on a high end stereo preamp, sell it for $2K and lose $75-$100 on shipping. Even that got old. "Yay, I made $1K profit this month and spent 30-40 hours managing ads and answering dumb questions".
Nothing niche. No photos yet. Most is in conditioned storage: a Baby Taylor with soft case, Yamaha AC3R with hardshell case, a new Squier Strat, a Fender Pro Junior IV LTD amp, various pedals, etc. So exactly HOW does one sell locally? It's my understanding that craigslist has gone to shit. eBay sales with local pickup only? Facebook Marketplace (gah)?
We're on the downsizing path, our house is way too big, only one kid still lives with us (and her kid). I'm going to be unloading all kinds of musical and audio gear as I don't want to move any of it. What's the best avenue to do so these days? reverb? What about local?