Questions for Rice students/alums

sffhgoalie73
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:49:42 +0000

Ok, so I’ve only been here a month so remember that when you read my answers.

1. Rice was the last school I added to my list. I can’t remember how it got added but after I applied I started looking more into each of my schools. There were certain factors I knew I wanted in a school, being in a city, still having a campus, good school spirit. Rice and a couple of my other schools had these characteristics. Eventually I narrowed it down to Rice and one other school, both equally prestigious, both costing about the same in my situation. I knew I liked the other school, but it was a little close to home. So, I decided to come down for Owl Days and if I liked Rice I would come here, if not I knew I had the other school that I also liked. I got down here, met a few people, heard so many things that I liked about im sports, the college system, classes, etc. and within two hours I knew I wanted to come here. It ended up being a much easier decision than I expected just because it felt so right when I was here. I went on a lot of college visits and I always wanted to get that feeling but never expected to, but I actually did at Rice. Plus I like warm weather.


I was surprised how inviting and welcoming everyone was from the very start. The advisors at o-week went way out of their way to make everyone comfortable. It was really nice and calmed my nerves about starting somewhere completely new. Also along the same lines the university did a lot to make starting college special. Matriculation was really nice and it was obvious a lot of work went into all of the o-week activities.
My favorite aspect of Rice is the residential colleges, by far. By the end of o-week I knew pretty much every freshman at Baker. Then, after the upperclassmen moved in, it was really easy to meet a lot of them. At least at Baker, meals are awesome because you can sit at basically any table and because most of the people eating there are from Baker you will know multiple people. Also you become so in love with your college so quickly and that feeling of unity really does make it like a family.
My least favorite thing is so minor but it bothers me. The meal schedules are really limited and I understand why but since dinner only runs until 7:30 on weekdays and we get hungry later at night, we have to rely on the food in our room. As I said minor problem that you just have to learn to eat when food is being served and take some stuff back to the room for later. But I have missed dinner twice already and had to buy stuff at 13th street.


Ok that’s it for now, I’ll answer the rest later.