Customers wait in line at the Sonic inside of the J. Wayne Reitz Union on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025.

Ryan Friedenberg is a senior Sport Management student with six years of photography experience. This is his sixth semester at The Alligator. When he is not working for The Alligator, he is capturing football game days for Gator Sports Properties and managing creative media for the UF Club Hockey team. In his free time, Ryan enjoys playing video games, baking, spending time in nature and watching sports.
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By Libby Clifton | 6:27pmChris Malachowsky, co-founder of computer graphics company Nvidia, speaks with students about their engineering projects during the unveiling ceremony of the fourth generation of HiPerGator, the most powerful university-owned supercomputer in the U.S., at UF East Campus on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.
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By Libby Clifton | 6:27pmErik Deumens, director of research computing in UF Information Technology, guides members of the media through “the bunker,” the housing facility for the computers that make up the fourth generation of HiPerGator, the most powerful university-owned supercomputer in the U.S., at UF East Campus on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.
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By Libby Clifton | 6:27pmUF Interim President Donald Landry (left) sits next to Nvidia co-founder Chris Malachowsky (right) during the unveiling ceremony of the fourth generation of HiPerGator, the most powerful university-owned supercomputer in the U.S., at UF East Campus on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.