Exciting Events All Around UT!

Hi!

Hope everyone is recovering nicely from Gasparilla! Although priates do invade Tampa Bay once a year, many other exciting events take place all year long at UT as well as around the area. In the past, UT has been the host to many different media events that have given our school a great amount of publicity! It's always fun to tell your friends that you had someone famous on your campus or has a cool national event in the city you go to school in! Here a just a few of the "once-in-a-lifetime" events that I have experienced in the last 4 years at UT

-The Today Show came and did a live broadcast from outside of Plant Hall in September of 2008. Hundreds of students woke up bright and early to go see Matt Lauer and Al Roker during their morning show.

Students with signs line up outside of Plant Hall to watch the Today Show (picture taken from http://pics.tampabay.com/?method=view.image¶m=63302¶m=188&category=845)

-The Tampa Bay Rays made it to the world series in 2008! It was an exciting time all around the city with fans rallying for their team and creating amazing spirit all over Tampa (Even though I am a Red Sox fan and was very bitter about the Rays beating the Sox in the playoffs, it was still a lot of fun to be in the area during this time and be part of the fun!)

(Picture from http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2008/matchup.jsp?series=lcs_a)

-The Superbowl was held in Tampa in 2009. The Steelers/Cardnials game was held at Raymond James Stadium which is just a few miles from the UT campus. Tampa was exciting the whole week before the Superbowl even happened with celebrities all over town and tons of parties!


-President Obama came to UT last Thursday to conduct a Town Meeting with citizens and students. This was an amazing event that had the whole campus buzzing. Some students waited in line for up to 6 hours waiting to get tickets for the event which turned out to be a great success!

(Picture from http://www.ut.edu/gallery/events/Obama/pages/obama17.html)

Those are only a few of the events that have taken place in the Tampa Bay area as well as at UT while I have been here. There is always something to look forward to in Tampa and always events being planned for later. If you decided to come to UT, you can be a part of all the fun as well!

Have a happy Tuesday! :)