Something very interesting is happening in Texas — and the media is barely paying attention.
The University of Austin (UATX) is building a brand-new Applied Engineering Lab in Bastrop, right next to The Boring Company HQ and across the street from the SpaceX Starlink factory.
This isn’t some ivory-tower think lab.
This is hands-on STEM education, real engineering, real hardware, real-world problem solving — with direct input from senior engineers at SpaceX and The Boring Company helping shape the curriculum.
Students won’t just study theory.
They’ll be learning next to the people actually building rockets, tunnels, and satellite networks.
Texas is quietly becoming the place where:
• Builders train engineers
• Education connects directly to industry
• Innovation isn’t strangled by bureaucracy
While legacy universities argue over ideology, UATX is planting itself in the middle of America’s most advanced engineering ecosystem and saying: let’s build.

Alaska’s night sky turned into something unreal last night✨🌌
Nature itself painted this moment as the aurora borealis twisted into what looks like glowing angel wings, flowing and reshaping in real time above the forest.
Not a painting. Not CGI. Just charged particles colliding with Earth’s atmosphere, creating pure, fleeting magic.