Unfortunately my memories of Houston are awful. My dad fell and broke his hip during a transit at IAH and spent a few weeks in hospital there, in the middle of summer. We (me, stepmom and sister) rotated staying there so that there was mostly someone with him. In my two trips, my food experience consisted of the doubletree near hobby airport (the closest to the hospital he was at) and the hospital cafeteria, and I could barely spend any time outside because the heat was so oppressive 
maybe one day I’ll get an opportunity to visit it properly….
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Oof, that sounds terrible.
Houston is a fun city, but NOT in the summer. Good gravy. It is truly horrible in the summer – like you walk outside, and you feel like you’ve just walked out of the shower in full clothing. I thought growing up in Atlanta would prepare D22 for it, but nope.
100%. Leaving New England later this year when D26 goes to college. Going to establish residency in Texas for state income purposes but not going to live there in the summer.
Thinking of renting a place in La Jolla during the summer.
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That would make sense, but it was the panel immediately after the intro speech where there wasn’t a choice. They separated parents and students to each get their own panels. And then you could ask various questions of the panelists. I suspect that the panel for students must have only had questions about student life itself.
If you go to Wesleyan, make sure you dont get the “dungeon dorm”. I cant remember which dorm it is but D26 did a STEM summer camp and she said it was like a dungeon.
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Yeah, not sure how DD got assigned to that particular panel; I brought it up with my sources today and that was their explanation. Fog of war sort of thing, I think. The important point is that Wesleyan is very much about academics!
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Have only driven through Houston on a road trip once from AZ to WDW. At one point on I-10 through Houston, there’s 14-15 lanes across between the west bound and east bound lanes. I thought that was pretty crazy. So when people say that the traffic in Houston is bad…holy cow, I can only imagine what that stretch is like during rush hour!
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Pitched the proposal to the child…
and she said, “Sounds good! I’ll do it.” 
Spousal Unit & I behind closed doors…
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I love the food in Houston! My favorite restaurant in the whole world is there- Churrascos (the one on Gessner).
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I grew up in a city with hot, very humid summers but Houston heat is a whole other level.
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It’s 100 degrees at 3pm and 92 degrees at 10pm with 80% humidity.
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Great. Thank you! It looks like lunch for the Haverford visit will be in the dining hall, so we’ll get to check that one out.
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That’s going to be our last visit. Looking forward to hearing how it goes! I recall on the tour we took that they said it was the only dining hall on campus in the Quaker tradition of everyone dining under one roof. We’re looking forward to trying it out too.
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I’m taking notes just in case but for the team, we are on foot. We fly down so don’t have a bus to get us places. And the days are exhausting so it needs to be walkable between the convention center and the hotel. Unfortunately we won’t know the hotel for a few weeks yet, which is about a week before we arrive there. Makes planning hard! We’re hoping to be downtown or by the medical center. Medical center had good options for food so that would be my preference. We’ll see
Just be careful. Medical center area is fine but the area to the east is probably the worst part of Houston.
Thanks. We were just in the couple blocks near the Marriott and the Westin. One night we walked to Rice Village and it seemed fine that way.
That’s the Marriott I mentioned above where my kiddo stayed by herself before she turned 21, lol.
There is a Chipotle very close to there (much closer than Rice Village) that is open until 11pm I think, and a Piada next door to it that closes at 10pm. (Also a Starbucks on that corner.) There is also a gyro place – or there used to be – one block away, but I’m not sure of the hours on that one.
We always stay at the Hilton in that area, and honestly, we just Door Dash – which I know isn’t super useful for a big group.
Wait, what weekend will you be there?
It was likely the Butterfield dorms:
photo credit: The Wesleyan Argus
Narrow windows coupled with narrow hallways. Reputed to be the then all-male college’s answer to the arrival of women in the 1960s (“They need privacy, don’t they?”) Meh, they’re also the best chance of nabbing a conventional single room freshman year (see, below.)
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Lived there my sophomore year. They are definitely dark.
Funny story, when I got my Freshman year room assignment and learned I had a single (Foss) I was devastated because I had it in my head that without a roommate, I’d be lonely and have trouble making friends. Little did I know that very few people had a roommate because like 75% of the dorm rooms were singles. It worked out great. Not sure if it’s still that way. I doubt they could comfortably fit two people in any of those rooms, though.
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