As I read many of your posts concerning the vandalizing of the school I would like to invite you to take a step back and reflect. It is very easy for all of us to think that our view of the world is the only one that exists.

There are many things going on in the world and I can guarantee you that if you could sit on a monitor and watch all of the terrible things happening right this second you would be sick to your stomach. We are constantly being fed by social media, the news and other media outlets a soup of outrage on the daily.

It is quiet literally impossible to know whether what you "believe in" is the absolute truth about a subject. Most of the information and trends on social media are manipulated to make you react. Focus on your studies, your goals and your ambitions and stop falling prey to the rage on the internet.

You have a duty and a responsibility to maintain a safe environment for your peers, specially at a University, a place where we come to expand and grow. This out of all places should remain both a safe and empowering place for those looking to contribute to society in the best way possible.

As a freshman boy at TXST, I am saddened by the lack of goth girls who attend here. The majority of girls here are Taylor swift starbucks girls who lack personality and originality. The underrepresentation of goth girl subculture at TXST is like tied to a few aspects: how notorious the esports team is at TXST (not a goth girl interest), the constant vibrant and sunny atmosphere (same reason as before) and the overall lack of cultural diversity. I know my brethren are also disappointed, but they seen to conceal their pain better than I can. Every single day I wake up and do my morning prayer hoping to spot an emo goth girl somewhere around campus, but alas, to no avail. Perhaps i am merely looking in the wrong places, if anyone knows where to find them please let me know ASAP. I believe without finding a goth girl my mental health will continue to plummet. I may look at transferring and filing a class action lawsuit if Kelly doesnt fix this immediately.

Are there any trans guys on campus or were people lying about it being so many lgbtq+ people here asking for uh um a friend🌞🫶🏾

I know you won’t see this because you’re not actually affiliated with TXST but I’m gonna say it anyway. F*** you. I am a woman, and NO I am not property. I have feelings & thoughts. How one can even sleep at night being affiliated with such a hateful group, in this day and age, is beyond me. Do y’all need reminding of what year we’re in? Spoiler alert: we’re no longer in the 1950s. That was 70 years ago. Get your heads out of your a$$es and start treating women as human beings.

Also, F*** you for choosing today of all days to do this crap. We are already saddened because Cheeto Man once again won over an actual qualified woman, and you go and do this crap. Do better.

hi! on march 2nd organizations and communities all over the united states are marching for rafah. is there anyone or any orgs here in san marcos who want to organize a march here. texas state is a school with students who speak up what they believe in and im not afraid of the outcomes after the protest. thank you.

i am SOOOOOOO sick of txst letting field trips use the dining hall ! this school will do anything for a quick buck they don’t care about us at all ! today not 1 but 2 schools came in on field trips. there was probably 300 children in there. not only does it kick us out and leave less food for us but it’s also just sooooo unhygienic ! i do not trust actual children to serve themselves food. also the teachers of the school put all of their stuff on my booth while i had everything on it. i had my ipad out, my tote bag, and my food on the table and they pushed it away and put their stuff there. i hate so much about this school but this is definitely a major issue for me.

Join us tommorow (Wednesday April 24th) !

Are there any bars that are popular for the queer crowd? Stonewall is gone so I want to know if there’s a hidden oasis out there lol!

Most of you will be overjoyed to know this will be my last post on this subreddit.

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So I just got back from "walking" in my masters commencement, and to be honest with you, the whole thing has me ready to throw up.

First, it’s the social distance thing. They had few enough people that they could have moved the venue inside to the basketball stadium (which would have fixed having to postpone it a day btw), still socially distanced, and made it at least FEEL more filled than having a college football stadium with MAYBE 1/20 of the seats filled (and that includes those graduating)

I won't even mention the masks.

Then it was the subpar sound system POPS when the University President spoke that continued during her entire 2-3 minute speech (this popping didn’t happen with the Provost)(so something she was wired up with was causing HUGE interference with the sound system, but no one dared try to fix it.

Then, it was what REALLY started to agitate me. We stand up, move to the side, get in line, hand our cards so they know who is walking.... (and this is where I’m going to start getting salty).... there was 30 yards from where we hand them our card, to where the center of the stage is.... they didn’t even wait until we were standing in the center before calling our names out. There was no conveyance of diplomas (covers). There was no shaking of hands. There wasn’t even A NOD from the academic faculty when a graduate crossed over. It was an assembly line, with no thought to even make a symbolic “threshold” it was just calling our name from one side of the field (football field) to then walking to the other. NONE of it was a personal experience. But they had THREE SETS of photographers to make sure to commercialize this sham of an event (and have the audacity to charge $$$ for that.)

And to add insult to injury, then the masters graduates had to sit there in the front and watch as the undergraduates made a MOCKERY of this event. I do not blame the undergrads for this. They have been convinced this is their big day. But there was no dress code, people were walking in CLUB attire without even having the graduate gown zipped up…. One person actually carried his small dog in his arm while walking. One young man, upon hearing his name called out, used a loud whistle to start jumping and dancing and disturbing everything else around him. Another young man decided to use the big screens as the ultimate penis joke using his hands to do and upside down “okay” gesture.

And the faculty and administration? Didn’t even FROWN. They were paralyzed from fear of trying to rein in control of this cheapening of the entire ceremony.

This was absolute chaos. And it was not the undergraduate’s fault. I blame the institution. They have taken a commencement ceremony, and watched as year after year, it has become a CHEAP and casual event.

They would have been better served to have a smaller commencement of masters/doctorate students apart from this nonsense. There is a seriousness (a professional gravitas) that ought to have been in that commencement as a sign of the truly distinct accomplishment that a graduation ought to be. It should convey to the person the acknowledgement of their maturation, and the successful completion of 4-6+ years of their lives. But to take the day we (graduate students) worked for 6+ years for, and have it turn into something you would expect from a kindergarten graduation…. It sickens me.

I feel robbed of the honor of shaking hands with those now my equal. I feel robbed of the gravitas of that which I have now completed. I feel robbed of the ability to look back on my masters commencement as a defining moment. I feel robbed of the dignity that such a commencement ought to have had. Having to sit there as the undergraduates (again, not blaming them) striped away the gravitas of the ceremony, that has robbed me of the ability to remember fondly my masters commencement. It is no longer a serious or defining moment. It is a cheap and faux experience made possible by an administration that stopped caring about the rigor and gravitas of academia a long time ago.

i’m a girl going to texas state in the fall and i saw a lot of sexual assault cases and im wondering how safe it is on campus and in the dorms? i just attended nso and they were very lenient on people going from floor to floor and i feel like that could easily lead to violence but i wanted to know how common it is? can anyone help me understand how it is there? i’ll be in jackson hall, thank you

Title says it all, I went halfies on my extra mayonnaise cheeburger with a little squirrel dude on the quad and I touched it with my shoe. Will I have squirrel poison on my shoe? I don’t know if I should be worried

Have some situational awareness in public please: it is expected that you hold elevator doors until the elevator is full and you are sure nobody else needs to get on. It's rude and inconsiderate to let the doors close when there are only a couple people on a mostly empty elevator. I missed two elevators in a row that I was actively trying to board in Alkek because a handful of students got on, then immediately stopped paying attention/let the doors close. A person in a wheelchair was also trying to board them and missed them for the same reason. Do better, folks.

Are there protests planned for tomorrow? I know TPUSA will be here but not sure what that means and stuff

I love this campus being smoke free! But people still smoke. 😡 Is there something I can do? What do u say to people when their smoking on campus?

I was curious if the hookup culture is big at this school. I don’t want to hookup but more rather just date someone so I am trying to see if it is a good place for me.

The payment plans offered at this school are a fucking joke… how am I supposed to pay over a thousand by April 😭. Is there a reason why they can only do 3 installments?? 😑

Who wants to start a new Texas State tradition? Tomorrow(Friday) at 12:20 people will be running shirtless through the quad waving a Texas State shirts and chanting Texas State!

Meeting at the Texas State LED screen and taking off from there! Who knows where it'll go!

Want to get amped and excite people for the game this saturday?! Join us! Lets get crazy and lets start a tradition! For now it will be called the Bobcat Run! If you have any better names let me know! We'll go with what sticks.

Eat em up! See all you crazy fans there!

In one of my CS elective classes attendance is worth 2.5% on the syllabus. Attendance has only actually been taken via a code 5 times the whole semester. The professor had sent out a couple announcements reminding people to attend, as well as a message sent to select student (about half the class) that he has determined they have low attendance (based on his memory i guess?) and to reach out to him if you have an extenuating circumstance.

He sent out an announcement today stating the following: “For students I have previously contacted regarding attendance, who committed to attending class regularly but have continued to miss classes, attendance-related points will be removed. Additionally, any future class-wide grade curves will not apply to this group”

Is this even allowed? I’m a senior and have never heard such a thing, or seen a professor be this upset regarding attendance.

Like why the hell do they end breakfast and start lunch at 11? Who the fuck eats lunch at 11 am???? Sometimes I leave my morning class early to try and get breakfast and even at like 10:15 they only have the fucking scraps of breakfast. Its so fucking annoying, and the lunch is usually ass (except the fish florentine thats fire)