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

• Running to seminar so that Gruver doesn't yell at you
  • "Early is on-time, on-time is late"
• Card swipes (and frantically telling friends that Melissa is standing threateningly at the entrance with the menacing black box and laptop in her hands)
• Cramming onto the D-Park bus
  • Which is especially unfortunate for the sad, sad CS track people during the hot, hot summers
• Skipping bio to escape the pain that is known as Crossley Lectures
  • You didn't hear this from us
• Getting caught by Kit or Sydney skipping class (bad idea)
• Sneaking back into CS after Kit comes for exit checks

McConnell Hall

Wing Shenanigans

• After curfew food runs with wing
• Wing shirts
• Staying in your senior mentor's room past Room Time
• Sleepovers in that one 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 Wi-Fi corner after curfew
• Curfew

Just Club Tings

• "Hit me"
• 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

McConnell Food

• After curfew food (brought to you by none other than TCS, or TAMS Culinary Society)
• Free food at the front desk
  • Typically, this includes leftover food from school-wide events
• Abi Kumar's post-bio-exam cookies (2019-2020)

Going Jim (Going to Pohl)

• A flock of students migrating to Pohl's, usually in the evening
• Getting mad gainz
• Going to Kitchen West afterwards

Food

See also: Dining

• 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
• Trying Kerr Burgers at least once
• Treatin yoself with Kerr's free ice cream
• Stealing 20 servings of Maple's appetizers

Miscellaneous

• Texas Academy of Misplaced Stuff
• TAMS W's / TAMS L's. Or as I like to call it, The Duality of Man
• Running to CVS
• 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
• TAMS Vans
  • The godly vehicles that will take you to Walmart / Razor Ranch / Sharetea for Important Business, schools in Denton for volunteering, and Far Away Places for competitions
    • Especially for those Far Away Places that take hours to drive to, your legs and back will start making you feel like a #grandparent. TAMS Vans aren't known for their spacious leg room, but the memories that persist in these cramped white vans outweigh back pain any day.
• Waiting for a laundry machine but having to (apologetically) take clothes out of the washer/dryer because dam you love hygiene

See also

• Lore

External links

• Someone wrote their doctoral thesis on TAMS traditions. Don't wanna study for exams? Give this a read.