<p>I’m a freshman who is planning to go home, which is 30 minutes away from Rice, every weekend. Should I bring my own car or rent a zipcar?</p>
<p>If you want to go home every weekend, then I suggest you bring your own car. Mainly because I don’t think you will always be able to reserve a zipcar. Also the constant rental fee you are going to pay will add up to a lot (more than parking permit + gas + insurance). I think (IMHO) you should bring your own car.</p>
<p>get a car. you will enjoy having it when you have homework at 2 am and are hungry too</p>
<p>As a parent I would say that if you are planning to go home every weekend, you are wasting the Rice college experience (barring some MAJOR home commitment such as sick parent/grandparent). You should take advantage of the opportunities to participate in campus life and to get involved in things! Save “going home” for after you have fully explored your campus life and limit it to every month or so at most.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice, ill buy a parking permit asap.</p>
<p>@ anxiousmom : I would go home less often, but my parents do not want to let me go. haha</p>
<p>mrbean, you should tell them that you’ll not be as independent as your friends. Tell then that it is time for you to learn to be more independent.</p>
<p>Yeah I mean it puts a damper on your social events…my suite mate went home every weekend last year and there were multiple people in my residential college and in my class that had no idea who he was.</p>
<p>Tell your parents this: I’ll come home as often as I can, maybe every weekend. Then find some good reasons not to come home–join an extracurricular group that practices on campus, a campus religious group, etc. Or get the zipcar, and tell them one isn’t available.</p>
<p>thanks, guys. i already bought the parking permit…
i think ill just take ur advice, Hunt… ill find some excuse not to come home.</p>
<p>I bet once everyone has a chance to adjust to the drastic change, they won’t expect you home and you’ll find yourself on campus more weekends than not. Give them some time. 18 years just goes way too fast. :)</p>
<p>hahaha dude, how are you going to party if your at home during the weekends…my friends go to rice, and some of the parties are intense(you wouldn’t expect it from rice)</p>
<p>well, you can go home on a sunday for a little while. i know people who do that</p>
<p>haha no need to fret, i can find reasons not to go home, and then party. what are my parents gonna do, drag me home? :S i sure hope not…</p>
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I think they’ll just call non stop and say: “WHY DIDN’T YOU COME HOMES?!?!?!?! GET YOUR BUTT HOME NOW”
hehe</p>
<p>Another option for you is to not bring your car and make your parents come pick you up and drop you off. It might discourage them from wanting you home all the time if it has to be a 2 hour ordeal for them every time. :)</p>
<p>But that means that you lose out on being able to get places. I guess get the car and don’t go home</p>