Trinity University

The Trinity campus was first created during the summer of 2009. Trinity University is a great 'first' campus to attend because of the relatively small amount of tipsters there. With it's own unique TIP traditions such as "Tigerfest" and "Call of Duty", and it's own 'canon' Don't Stop Believing.

Campus Information

Catalog Description Trinity University, home to 2,700 undergraduate and master’s degree students, ranks #1 in the west region for master’s universities according to U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings. Trinity is a selective university known for a broad range of exceptional programs, a nationally recognized library, and a lively campus with abundant state-of-the-art resources. The beautiful 117-acre campus is positioned on a hillside overlooking historic downtown San Antonio, TX, and it serves as an inviting and dynamic setting for our seventh and eighth grade students.

Features As of 2010, students stay in the Prassel Residence Hall. Prassel has three halls with a lower level, consisting of the atrium, where most indoor activities take place. The rooms are quite nice, with two rooms sharing one bathroom. You have one roommate and two suitemates. You also share a balcony with them. The first, second, and third halls each have a lounge where TV with cable is provided. RC group nights are often held in lounges or RC rooms. Other places in Prassel are the fish bowls, rooms with completely clear walls, located on the ends of each hall. On the lower level, there is the atrium, game room, and laundry room. The laundry room has eight washers and eight dryers. Vending machines are also located on each floor, and it is highly recommended that you bring a lot of quarters to Trinity, because quarters are more important than paper bills.

The Experience

Classes take place in the Mars McLean building. Breaks are held in the grassy area nearby.

TIPsters can sign up for library at the beginning of each day. They will be given thinner, bright orange lanyards to distinguish themselves, and during the 4-5 free time they are walked to the library, which has books, but more important, computers! (Which corresponds to Internet access.)

Meals are held in the Mabee Dining Hall. The food is very good, perfect compared to the food at Duke West's Great Hall, with selections of chicken, pizza, pasta, sandwiches, Tex Mex, hot grinders, BBQ, and comfort food. Soup is also available. In the mornings, you can choose a variety of breakfast foods, which include bacon, eggs, French toast, hash browns. (Other stuff is available, but it is too much of a hassle to list it all.)

Be ready to walk a lot at Trinity and go up many, many flights of stairs. Prassel Residence Hall is on one side of the campus and the classrooms and dining hall are on the opposite end of campus, so be prepared to walk, walk, walk. In 100 degree weather, sometimes more. You'll get a not-so-great experience of burning under the sun as you cut through parking lots and pass by the tennis courts and are constantly mocked by the swimming pool that you're not allowed to go into but pass by every day (especially with your RC sunbathing on it).

Courses

The following courses were offered, as of 2011.

Term 1 Creative writing, Earthshaking science, Engineering problem solving, Lab Sciences, Math problem solving, Mock Trial, Modern Medicine, Psychology, Searching for clues: literature, law, and logic, Web Applications

Term 2 Creative writing, Engineering problem solving, Lab sciences, Math problem solving, Mock Trial, Modern Medicine, Psychology, Web Applications, Myths and Legends, Physics of Propulsion

Term Two, 2011

There is much to tell about Trinity Term Two 2011. A lot went on, including Bathroom Raves (Casille's group), Richard the Rock advertising (Nathan's group), Gaganisms, and fingernail painting for guys (courtesy of the female population at Trinity, of course). TIPsters from this term at Trinity were so in love with it that upon leaving, many of them suffered from severe cases of TIPression.

RC's and RHL's The wonderful (and not so wonderful) RC's who made our TIP experience special: Scott, Ryan D, Bets, Ryan W, Leslie, Savannah, Nathan, Rebecca, Gagan, Kayla, Liz, Sara (RHL), and Casille (RHL).

Evening Activities There were a variety of different evening activities, including ultimate frisbee (my personal favorite), Apples to Apples, volleyball, Finding Nemo and Freezy Pops (also fun), origami, Quidditch (which came with the Harry Potter mania) and many more.

TIPside jokes Many TIPside jokes went on, including Gaganisms. Gaganisms, as you may have guessed were some of Gagan's little sayings, such as "Keep it classy fellows," and "Jesus is watching you, but more importantly, I'm watching you."

Also, among other TIPside jokes, was the Bathroom Raves, which I will leave to Casille's group, as I do not know much about it.

A personal favorite of mine is the Treehuggers, courtesy of the Mockers. During the first day of class, we were debating over what our punishment should be for breaking the rules that our class had set. As it happens, I do not remember exactly how this came up, but someone suggest that we make anyone who had gotten three X's (you break a rule, you get an X) hug a tree for all of break. And there were people who did have to hug a tree. Our TA picked a tree whenever we went out to break, and said treehugger would have to hug the tree during break, unless established otherwise.

Male Fingernail Painting The guys on our campus were either really nice to girls, or they really like fingernail painting, because by the second week, you could walk around and see guys sporting pink fingernails. At least one guy, on any given day by the second week, would be walking around with painted fingernails. Of course (or at least I hope), these guys had been pushed into it by girls.

Richard the Rock Richard the Rock is a pet rock who is co-owned by Alex M. and Andrew W. Richard the Rock is actually a very popular figure among Trinity TIPsters. It seems that he eats and sleeps, and he goes everywhere with Alex. Like him on Facebook! (www.facebook.com/richardrock123456 or search Richard the Rock in the search bar)

Rice dances are also a huge favorite at TIP. They are performed at any dancing chance. The steps are relatively easy to learn. 1)Plow the Rice 2)Mix the rice 3)Toss the rice 4)Catch the rice 5)Cook the Rice OR 5) Eat the rice If u chose cook the rice then, 6)eat the rice. If u chose eat the rice, then do 7)indigestion. 8)Eat the crumbs off the floor. 9)Share the rice 10)Harvest the rice. Do these steps in a freestyle dance action. It's like charades.

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