What are your favorite Texas universities? (Houston, Dallas: landscaping, buy, camping)

[bamba_boy]

University of Texas
a. Beautiful Hill Country Location
b. Barton Springs: natural rock spring-filled swimming hole
c. a bastion of free thinking and tolerance in Texas
d. reasonable tuition for a high academic standard school with great fascillities
e. Absolutely awesome sports: recent national champs in boys AND girls basketball, football, swimming, baseball
f. great club scene just off campus on 6th Street
g. state gov't internships at Capital even closer
h. an alumni group that comprise a huge fraction of the government and private sector movers and shakers of Texas and
even the US

[teatime]

Originally Posted by texasdiver

No one has mentioned UTEP. It has the most distinctive architecture of any school in Texas. It''s all done in Himalayan Bhutanese style architecture. And, unlike any other school in Texas, it has mountains in the backdrop.





http://coprod.cs.utep.edu/images/utep3.jpg

http://admin.utep.edu/Portals/1637/AcademicSvcs1.jpg

BEAUTIFUL pics!!!!!! LOVE the unusual architecture and the mountains in the background are gorgeous!!!!

As for me and my house, we're Red Raiders. I really like Tech, the people, and Lubbock itself.

[cyrano]

I'm one of those two people who voted for my alma mater, UH. No, it's not pretty, and as a commuter school, it's not the type of place where most of its students are going to create lifelong memories of frat parties, keggers, and such. I did that at UT, which is why I had to pretty much start over at UH. But I got good educations there, both undergrad and law, and was surrounded by students like myself, extremely motivated because we were going to college on our own dime (or at best, Uncle Sam's GI nickel, and we paid the rest) and going to class at night after putting in a day's work at our jobs.

It's nice to have a pretty campus (and pretty coeds-- I see that someone mentioned Texas State, which may be the world champion for attractive women), lovely to have the wonderful college experience and all, but I'm actually proud to be a UH alum. My law school classmates have achieved much in their careers, and who knows? maybe I will too one day, when I grow up.

[WillysB]

UT Austin because it just reeks of oil and cattle. And of course, Texas.

Rice because it's an oasis in Houston. Having lived nearby, I used to do a lot of jogging and bike riding about the campus.

[Lakewooder]

The Hilltop (SMU) view for those who say Dallas has no trees:

[Dangerfield]

I was greedy and picked five.

Rice
SMU
UT-Austin
TCU
Texas Tech

[sxrckr]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

The Hilltop (SMU) view for those who say Dallas has no trees:

I don't think it's that people really mean it has "no trees". But really, be honest, you have to admit that outside of the university and city park areas, Dallas is not blessed with lots of naturally occurring large trees. I don't why it's so hard for some people in Dallas to admit that.

[awecelot]

Originally Posted by sxrckr

I don't think it's that people really mean it has "no trees". But really, be honest, you have to admit that outside of the university and city park areas, Dallas is not blessed with lots of naturally occurring large trees. I don't why it's so hard for some people in Dallas to admit that.

Let's see...areas of Dallas with lots of naturally occurring large trees:

-Highland Park
-University Park
-Lakewood
-Preston Hollow
-Kessler/Stevens Park

The list could go on, but I'll stop there for brevity.

I don't know why it's so hard for some people outside of Dallas to admit that Dallas DOES have trees!

[sxrckr]

Originally Posted by awecelot

Let's see...areas of Dallas with lots of naturally occurring large trees:

-Highland Park
-University Park
-Lakewood
-Preston Hollow
-Kessler/Stevens Park

The list could go on, but I'll stop there for brevity.

I don't know why it's so hard for some people outside of Dallas to admit that Dallas DOES have trees!

Because it's not IN A FOREST as some other Texas cities are. It has trees, but not in the same way that some other places do. The places in Dallas with vast, large numbers of trees are limited in scope (and in tax bracket). On top of that, you could find the same types of neighborhoods in some other Texas cities, with even more and larger trees than the above.
Most people living in Dallas won't have a chance to live in these above named neighborhoods, and instead end up in a treeless suburbs. That's the real story.
Why is that such a problem to admit?
Houston doesn't claim to have mountains and Austin doesn't claim to have a beach.
Moving on...

[awecelot]

Originally Posted by sxrckr

Because it's not IN A FOREST as some other Texas cities are. It has trees, but not in the same way that some other places do. The places in Dallas with vast, large numbers of trees are limited in scope (and in tax bracket). On top of that, you could find the same types of neighborhoods in some other Texas cities, with even more and larger trees than the above.
Most people living in Dallas won't have a chance to live in these above named neighborhoods, and instead end up in a treeless suburbs. That's the real story.
Why is that such a problem to admit?
Houston doesn't claim to have mountains and Austin doesn't claim to have a beach.
Moving on...

Oak Cliff has a lot of trees, and for the most part, that's a different tax bracket than the other areas (even though Kessler/Stevens Park is part of Oak Cliff).

Is Dallas "in a forest?" No. No one claimed that it was. Just because it's not in a forest does not mean that it doesn't have trees. Therefore, the argument you made in your post does not prove me wrong.

And I thought we were talking about Dallas, not suburbs.