Traditions
There are countless traditions here at TAMS, and by creating this page, we're counting on future generations to keep them alive. Don't fail us.
Academics
McConnell Hall
- After curfew food (brought to you by none other than TCS, or TAMS Culinary Society)
- Free food at the front desk
- After curfew food runs with wing
- Wing shirts
- Sleepovers in that friend's room that has a rug
- Sleeping in a friend's room because neighbors are too loud
- Sleeping in a friend's room because neighbors set something on fire
- Hanging out in the A200 wifi corner after curfew
- Staying in your senior mentor's room past roomtime
- "Hit me"
Food
- Walmart / Razor Ranch / Sharetea runs
- Eating at the Taste, Oriental Garden (OG), Chipotle, or Denton Square for celebrations. Or just because you're sick and tired of eating the same dining hall food for weeks straight.
- Flocking to Bruce for breakfast after 8 AM bio
- Bruce Waffle Wednesdays
- Bruce's birthday celebrations every Wednesday
- And consequently, cake every Wednesday
Miscellaneous
- Texas Academy of Misplaced Stuff
- TAMS W's / TAMS L's. Or as I like to call it, The Duality of Man
- Typically, this includes leftover food from school-wide events
- Cramming onto the D-Park bus
- Which is especially unfortunate for the sad, sad CS track people during the hot, hot summers
- Abi Kumar's post-bio cookies (2019-2020)
- Running to CVS
- TAMS Vans
- Halloween
- Free Insomnia Cookies
- Discounted Chipotle
- Wing trick-or-treating
- Bruce Haunted House
- Realizing that you forgot your ID when it's lunchtime and sneaking into dining halls by "borrowing" a friend's ID
- Watching movies with friends at the Business Leadership Building over the weekend
- Tabling and buying things even though we're all broke
- Wall of Salt
- Exec season
- Bribing friends with printers to print your exec apps because they're due at 11:59 PM but curfew is at 11:00 PM and the computer lab closes at 11:00 PM