<p>My son, Brown 2007, “lost” the junior lottery, but was in a nice apartment off campus. For senior year, he and his buddies procrastinated signing up for housing, but the bunch of them rented a really decent house just off campus. For both years, he bought an off campus meal plan, but I know there were lots of stops at Chipotle and other such places.</p>
<p>Don’t worry too much about it. Each residential college is a little different with respect to “prime” upperclass rooms. And some students do tire of the “dorm” life. The great thing about Rice is that your college is your college forever.</p>
<p>There is a lot of very safe, decent, not too expensive off campus housing.</p>