Rice University Top Questions

The workload is tremendous. It can be hard to balance sleep, grades, and a social life. But with a little time management skills, it can definitely be done. Fortunately, everyone around you is stuck in the same situation. There's a lot of support.

This isn't something that would apply to everyone, but I was a dancer in high school and the appallingly low level of students involved in this activity I love so much was really depressing. For a university with such an impressive music school, extracurriculars in the fine arts arena are sadly lacking. Still, it is relatively easy for a determined student to find or start various activities, and even if others are uninterested, our location in the heart of Houston means that (with the help of a car) one can easily find other options in the city.

The only negatives at the school are the sporadic success of the football team and the current widespread construction. Fortunately, the construction runs quickly and will greatly benefit the Rice community when complete. There is really nothing else that can be said against Rice.

The greatest problem I have encountered at Rice is stigma attached to a person's major. Students in the humanities and social sciences are often picked on and considered less intelligent than those who are studying hard sciences or engineering. Architecture students and music students are usually left out of this, but the pressure of being a reasonably intelligent humanities/social science major in a campus full of condescending scientists can be a bit of a downer.