English Graduate Group (EGG)
August 1, 2011
Dear Incoming Student,
Welcome! The English Graduate Group would like to congratulate you on your acceptance to UT. Since you will probably be on information overload these first few days, we’ll try to keep this brief. The English Graduate Group, or EGG for short, works to promote English graduate student opportunities within the department. The elected members of the EGG Steering Committee work to foster a sense of community among graduate students.
As a new member of this community, you will automatically be subscribed to a listserv called NEWEGAD, through which you’ll receive email notifications from the English Graduate office. You will be subscribed using the email address that you provide to the Graduate English office. NEWEGAD is a closed listserv for this year's incoming students. It enables you to communicate exclusively with your cohort during your first year at UT. NEWEGAD is extremely useful for getting to know your fellow incoming students, but it does not connect you to the English graduate program as a whole.
To enter into the larger conversation with your colleagues, we invite you to subscribe to our listserv, Broken-Eggs, an online discussion group for all interested graduate students in the UT English Department. On Broken-Eggs, you will receive announcements and queries that other students send, and be able to post questions and comments of your own. You will find Broken-Eggs useful for avoiding recall wars, as people often send courtesy queries for books checked out from the library. Broken-Eggs also helps you stay informed about upcoming parties and social events, and exchange recommendations for everything from doctors to hairstylists. However, be forewarned that Broken-Eggs users do sometimes object to 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 difficulty signing up, so you may want to use your UT email address: http://lists.cwrl.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/broken-eggs.
We have planned three happy hours so that you can get to know your cohort and some of the other English grad students as well. Please join us at 5:00pm on Tuesday, August 16th, at the Dog and Duck (406 W 17th St); Thursday, August 18th, at the Hole in the Wall (2538 Guadalupe St); and Monday, August 22nd, at the Spiderhouse (2908 Fruth St).
If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can better address graduate student needs, please contact a member of the EGG Steering Committee. We can't wait to meet you and look forward to seeing you at the happy hours.
The EGG Steering Committee:
Rachel Wise (rachelwise@mail.utexas.edu)
Meredith Coffey (meredithcoffey@gmail.com)
Laine Perez (perezle585@hotmail.com)
Amanda Wall (awall@mail.utexas.edu)
