Graduate
August 6, 2009
Dear Incoming Student,
Congratulations on your acceptance to UT, and welcome to Austin from the English Graduate Group! Since you’re probably hearing a lot of stuff in these first few days, we’ll try to keep this brief. The English Graduate Group, or EGG for short, serves to promote English graduate student opportunities within the department, and the elected members of the EGG steering committee work to foster a sense of community among graduate students.
As a new member of the community, you will automatically be subscribed to an administrative listserv called NEWEGAD, through which you’ll receive notifications from the English Graduate office. You will be subscribed using the email address that you provide to the Graduate English office. You are also invited to subscribe to our listserv, Broken-Eggs, an online discussion group for graduate students in the UT English Department. On Broken-Eggs, you will receive announcements and queries that other students send, and will be able to post questions and comments of your own. If you haven’t already subscribed, you’ll find Broken-Eggs useful for avoiding recall wars, as people often send queries for books checked out from the library. Broken-Eggs also lets you find out about upcoming parties and social events, and exchange recommendations for dentists, doctors, hairstylists, etc. However, many Broken-Eggs users (which include only English graduate students, from first years up to seventh years and on) sometimes get annoyed with posts advocating political positions, making jokes, or perpetuating flame wars, so please exercise discretion about what you send to the listserv.
If you would like to subscribe to Broken-Eggs, visit this website and follow the instructions. Gmail users sometimes have problems signing up, so you may want to use your UT email address when you sign up: http://lists.cwrl.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/broken-eggs.
We have planned three happy hours so that you can get to know your fellow first-year students and some of the other English grad students as well. The first one will be Tuesday, August 18th, at the Dog and Duck (406 W 17th St) at 5:00. The second will be at the Hole in the Wall (2538 Guadalupe St) on Thursday, August 20th, at 5:00. And the third will be Monday, August 24th at 5:00 at the Spiderhouse (2908 Fruth St).
If you have any questions, please contact one of the members of the EGG Steering Committee-our names and email addresses are listed below. We can't wait to meet you and look forward to seeing you at the happy hours.
If you have any questions, please contact one of the members of the EGG Steering Committee-our names and email addresses are listed below. We can't wait to meet you and look forward to seeing you at the happy hours.
The EGG Steering Committee:
Rachel Schneider
rschneider@mail.utexas.edu
Cate Blouke
utcate@gmail.com
Lynn Cowles
cowlesla@mail.utexas.edu
Ashley Miller
ashley.e.miller@gmail.com
Rachel Wise
rachelwise@mail.utexas.edu