HON General Meeting

A BIG welcome to the new class of Honors students! Our first general meeting of the school year will be THIS THURSDAY Sept 2nd at 6:00pm in the Red Raider Lounge of the Student Union Building. We'll have officers outside making sure you know where to go and all that. Membership applications will be available at the meeting and t-shirts to pick up - check out the new design!
Any questions? email us at honttu@gmail.com

Look forward to seeing y'all there
-Eric

Ronald McDonald House!!

Hey y'all,

On Feb 20th we're going to be volunteering at the Lubbock Ronald McDonald House again. This is a great community service event because it directly affects people's lives. Families live here in this 17-bedroom house and on this Saturday we get to help them do chores so they have more time to spend with family members in need of care.

Meet at Gordon Hall at 8:30 and we'll carpool from there. Please wear your green HON shirt. If you plan to come, sign-up at the general meetings or email Eric at (eric.k.otto@ttu.edu). See you there!

More Community Service

Volunteering at the Food Bank Farm: We will be working with the food bank this Saturday Nov 7th from 9am-12 noon. The address is 304 76th St., Lubbock, TX‎. Please email ahead of time if you need a ride. (eric.k.otto@ttu.edu or alison.wiseman@ttu.edu)

HON Halloween Costume Party

Karaoke, Dance Dance Revolution, Awesome Desserts and Snacks, Costume Contest Prizes (ie.gift cards; vintage HON Shirts)

Guests and non-HON members are welcome!

Please RSVP by October 27th, 12pm to HON EMAIL (honttu@gmail.com)

REMEMBER:HON MEMBERS ATTENDING THIS EVENT WILL EARN YOU 1 POINT!

The first month of HON has been busy, but hopefully enjoyable for all members! It’s always great to see the new students on campus become active in the Honors community and terrific to see new faces. I hope everyone will find HON to be a beneficial experience and terrific opportunity to meet new people and get involved on and off campus. The community service chairs have been active in planning great events to get students involved. It is a privilege to go to school in an area that is so supportive of Texas Tech, and therefore a joy to be able to give back to it. Volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House was very successful and we will get the opportunity to continue with our work there this semester. The Race for the Cure was also a fantastic event with tons of involvement from our members. HON was able to make a large donation to the Susan G. Komen Foundation and express our support for cancer patients. Our first Pizza with a Prof has also taken place with Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy Jr. as he discussed “The Obama Administration’s Greatest Challenges Abroad.” My favorite aspects about Pizza with a Prof have always been its ability to provide pragmatic first hand knowledge to students from individuals who have a vast amount of knowledge about the subject. It goes beyond what you could ever read in a textbook, and typically hear in class lectures, because these professors have had experiences that most people simply hear about. Yesterday Dr. Robert Paine shared his insight about forensics sciences and opened our eyes to the field beyond CSI and primetime TV. It’s a terrific event to attend every month as it expands your worldview through interactions with our brilliant faculty. Socially we had an HON movie night at Tinseltown and free Sheridan’s. If you’ve been in college this long and don’t know the appeal of free food you sure will soon! I hope all of you have a great semester thus far, and I hope to see you around often and soon!

P.S. Be sure to attend Capture the Flag planned by our social chair Anastasia tomorrow!!

Capture the Flag

Hey HONies,

October 17th Capture the flag meet at Gorden Kitchen at 6:00 pm. Bring your cutest mugs for hot cocoa.

When I was running for social last year, I promised everyone that we are going to have REAL food, no more pizza and what not. After a mini survey...............I went to purchase needs for tomorrow.
Some details on the event:

We will meet in Gorden first floor kitchen and devour the granola bars and chocolate to charge up. I was going to list exactly what we have but you can scrutinize the pictures below=). After the game we will head back to the kitchen and have home made hot cocoa! We will NOT provide cups. ( you can't microwave plastic cups and foam cups are SUPER bad for the environment) Bring your cutest mugs!! Whoever has the cutest mug will get a little prize.


For the hot cocoa, personally I have always been having package kinds. Welllll......tomorrow we are going to make our own! It is basically cocoa power, vanilla extract, milk, suger( We have zero calorie sugar!), and marshmallows. There are baby ones to add in the milk and big ones to devour directly. Have you tried microwaved marshmallow? SUPER delicious! yummmmmmm There is coffee as well. I started drinking coffee approx. two months ago, and I have discovered that drinking coffee and having banana with it is really grand!!!! As you can see in the picture there is also bananas. I am not sure if it will go well with hot cocoa, but we will find out tomorrow.




If you do not attend, that is minus a point!! jUST KIDDING, but be there! If you haven't paid please bring the member fee, it is 40 dollars and you get a shirt.

One last thing! Dear HONies, you can join a committee and be a part of that committee! Want to join Social? You get to organize events and we have a Halloween party coming up. Plus, you can work with me in person! That's priceless okay? Haha...yeah....ANYWAY! I want YOUR help and YOUR ideas. The best of all, your can now put you are in the "Social committee of HON" instead of "member of HON" in your resume. Email me at: anastasia.warden@ttu.edu

Good night Honies! Study hard!
HON Social Coordinator
Anastasia Warden

Enjoy Your Fall Break

Nothing new in HON this week. Enjoy your fall break. Our next event will be Pizza with a Prof on Thursday, October 15. We'll keep you updated.