Rice University- Parties

hawkette
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:07:41 +0000

future chem dad,
Rice is a pretty non-judgmental place and if your daughter found a social event like Beer Bike offputting, please keep in mind that this event only goes on for about a week a year. Granted, there is lots of preparation and a lot of students get involved and really enjoy it, but no one is going to force your daughter to participate.

As for this event turning your daughter off to Rice, I have two questions for you:

1. What do you think goes on at virtually every college in America? If you don’t want want partying or any alcohol at all on the campus, then you may be limiting yourself to places like BYU. I happen to like BYU very much and think it is enormously underrated (and particularly so on CC), but is that really your model college?

2) Do you think that your daughter would benefit from exposure to a variety of experiences, academic and social, in her college life? As college party scenes goes, Rice’s is relatively sedate. Many Rice students find Beer Bike to be a lot of fun and I suspect that, if you gave it a try, your daughter (and you) might find it interesting, unique and additive to the overall college experience.

Finally, I urge you to visit the college and try to look past the objections that you read about in a book and consider the entire university as an entire experience for your daughter.