Please don’t hesitate to ask any question about the school/major/housing/life/etc, I’ll try my best to answer as soon as possible 
Just some dorm tips here if you plan to live on campus. I’ve either visited my friends who live there or have lived there myself, so all speaking from my own experience.
Jester West/East are the largest dorm complex on campus and both have affordable prices. West is the taller building that has larger capacity yet with older infrastructures, compare to the relatively new East tower. One advantage of living in Jester is having the convenience to almost everything, Jester market, Jester city limits (JCL), J2(the $5 buffet if you use dining dollars), Wendy’s (perfect place to grab food after late night study); also there is a tutoring center (Sanger learning center) on the second floor of the Jester Hall and the biggest library (PCL) is right next to the Jester dorm complex. 5-10 minute walking distance to almost any building for classes (WEL, GDC, CBA, RLM, etc). Jester West can sometimes be loud so if you prefer a relatively quiet place to live then you might want to go with the East. Both have community baths and laundry room on each floor.
If you can afford a higher price but sill want to be close to Jester for the convenience, then definitely look at San Jacinto that’s close to the stadium. It has larger rooms with very nice appliances and private bath/restroom. Walking distance from San Jac to Jester center is about 6-7 minute walk so it might be little bit far to go to your classes from the dorm, but there’s the Forty Acre (640) bus stop located right next to San Jac and it’s basically the bus that goes around the campus. Different from Jester, you instead will have a huge laundry room underground with approximately 30+ washer/dryer each. Overall quieter than Jester but still depends on your neighbor. Also there’s a market on the first floor with its own food menu (has very good breakfast).
Another luxury dorm just like San Jac is Duren in the Northwestern side of the campus. It’s similar to San Jac in many ways, room structure, appliances, private baths/restroom, etc; also very quiet. It’s really close to the all-girl-dorm Kinsolving which has a small market and a buffet (just like J2 mentioned above but has better food in my opinion). Solid option if you got the money to burn but has longer walking distance to most of the buildings due to its location.
Kinsolving is a pretty old dorm that only allows female residents. It has a market (Kin’s market) and another buffet is also located here as mentioned above, convenient place to live but again, not quite convenient to access most of the classes compare to dorms like Jester. One thing I want to point out is that this dorm has sofa-beds which can be retracted and they might be inconvenient for some people. Also a community bath dorm.
Classes.
Many intro science and math classes are very challenging here, usually with average of around 50 or 60s or sometimes even 40s on tests in those classes (calculus/phy/chem/bio/etc). But no need to panic if you found yourself getting a 50 on the first chemistry test and think you might fail the class. The fact is that many professors either curve your grade in the end of the semester based on the class average or simply deciding letter grade on individual’s rank of the class. So just be sure to get above the class average and you’ll be fine. RateMyProfessor is your friend prior of picking classes. When it comes to creating schedules, everyone on campus used to use the website called MyEdu to create individual schedules since it has the ability to access UT class database so that you don’t need to manually make the schedule. However the service was discontinued recently and now you can use alternative services like TheClassPoint or Coursicle to plan your schedule; I personally prefer the latter since it has a nicer and more intuitive interface 
Gee I have so many questions to ask you:
1.) How are the CS classes like, I have taken 2 into classes in C++ and Java but apparently they weren’t accepted. Also how do I get rid of those Curriculum flags
2.) Are there any clubs for CS students?
3.) Have you done any internships? If so when and how did you apply
4.) How are the scholarships over there? I got about 1500 in transfer scholarships but that’s not nearly enough.
5.) Do the Bevo Bucks and Dine-in Dollars last for as long as the DHFS renews its for?
6.) What would be your advice for me to make straight A’s this semester?
Can give input on this question:
5.) Do the Bevo Bucks and Dine-in Dollars last for as long as the DHFS renews its for?
I think you are asking how long the Bevo Bucks and Dine in Dollars that come w/ the housing contract last? My son just finished his freshman year and he lived in Jester West Community Bath. I was worried he would run out of money. I believe he started with I think $1500 in Dining Dollars and $300 in Bevo Bucks. I estimated that would probably buy him an average of about 7 meals a week. I thought he would run out but he actually finished the year with about $300 Dining Dollars and about $100 Bevo Bucks. I believe he is able to use them the fall semester but he will be charged the higher non-resident rate at the all you can eat buffets. Some days he spent up to $20 and that was mainly on busy days when he would get meals outside of the cafeteria (not the all you can eat buffet) and maybe a smoothie. Some days he wouldn’t spend any Dining Dollars or Bevo Bucks since he went out to eat some place else or ate at someone’s apartment. He never purchased breakfast. He came home with just about all the dorm room food I sent up with him like mac/cheese, soup, ramen, popcorn.
Hi,
- CS major courses are fairly challenging at UT, not only because of the material but also many projects are extremely time consuming, so I suggest you start things early all the time. As far as I know, the only way to receive a credit for the intro programming course (CS312) is scoring 4+ on the AP computer science test, and that’s the only class that can be skipped by high school credit.
- There are some student groups for CS students
- Typically you can apply for internships any time you like (even as a freshman), and you’ll be getting emails from the cs department regarding all kinds of internships with apply instructions
- Actually I would appreciate the 1500 you got from UT lol cause this school is very tight on giving out scholarships, but again you’ll have chance looking at other scholarship information from weekly email or other school sources
- I lived on campus for the first year and they gave us $1500 for dinning dollar and $300 bevo bucks, I ended up spending the residuals in the souvenir shop buying shirts and other stuffs. If you gets tired of cafeteria food like me then you might end up having a huge balance like I did, but no need to worry cause the money does not immediately expire once you move out, it lasted one more semester after we moved out.
- The secret to get A’s in cs courses is not procrastinating and go to office hour if you are stuck on something; as for other classes (science, calculus, etc) I just want to tell you that most of those intro courses are weep out classes, that means they are designed to be hard so don’t panic if you think that you might fail the class, cause they normally are graded bases on the overall class performance