<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus </li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>I'm there.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
</ol>
<p>What is screw yer roommate?</p>
<p>I had to look that one up. Apparently you set your roommate up on a blind date (with someone of the opposite gender). You don't actually date your roommate (phew).</p>
<p>The major feature of Screw Yer Roommate is that you usually force your roommate to do something somewhat embarrassing so the date is able to find them.</p>
<ol>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
</ol>
<h1>67 isn't true. That was his inauguration address. What he gave at Rice was his "moon" speech, which included the line: "But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."</h1>
<p>Also, screw Juilliard. Their orchestral program is a joke.</p>
<p>Wow, it sounds like he was mocking the Rice football team a little bit, comparing them playing Texas to human beings going to the moon. That jerk!</p>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
<li>Sephiroth226 is there.</li>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
<li>Owl mascot</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "Going to the moon" speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
<li>Sephiroth226 is there.</li>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
<li>Owl mascot</li>
</ol>
<p>Just fixing #67 with pcannon's post. Hope nobody objects.</p>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
<li>Sephiroth226 is there.</li>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
<li>Owl mascot</li>
<li>Tons of residential college spirit</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
<li>Sephiroth226 is there.</li>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
<li>Owl mascot</li>
<li>Tons of residential college spirit</li>
</ol>
<p>Again, just fixing #67 with pcannon's post (we posted at the same time). Hope nobody objects.</p>
<p>If I may comment on HuMed (#76)...</p>
<p>My real impression of HuMed is that it's a bunch of Pre-Meds trying to pad their resum?s. They really make no positive impact wherever they go, and they do not have the medical experience to do so. They spend the entire year planning a giant trip to some impoverished area in Africa so they can serve as gophers for doctors there, and they ignore everything they can do in the Houston area. Honestly, I'm just as qualified as those Pre-Meds to serve as a gopher for a doctor in Africa (I'm a PoliSci major).</p>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
<li>Sephiroth226 is there.</li>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
<li>Owl mascot</li>
<li>Tons of residential college spirit</li>
<li> Wonderful Live Oak trees (don't have them in the N.E.)</li>
<li> Generous Merit Aid (thank you, Rice)</li>
<li> Students are friendly, and great to prefrosh</li>
</ol>
<p>Come on, guys, you have to get this post up to #101!! Surely there are at least 17 more reasons. I'll add one...</p>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
<li>Sephiroth226 is there.</li>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
<li>Owl mascot</li>
<li>Tons of residential college spirit</li>
<li>Wonderful Live Oak trees (don't have them in the N.E.)</li>
<li>Generous Merit Aid (thank you, Rice)</li>
<li>Students are friendly, and great to prefrosh</li>
<li>The ENORMOUS squirrels (some are as big as cats!)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country</li>
<li>Shepherd School of Music</li>
<li>Residential college system</li>
<li>Very close access to the Texas Medical Center</li>
<li>Champion Baseball team</li>
<li>Amazing profs</li>
<li>Nanosci!</li>
<li>The people there</li>
<li>Classes offered</li>
<li>In Houston</li>
<li>Rice-Baylor</li>
<li>"Southern Ivy"</li>
<li>next to the Lightrail</li>
<li>300 acre downtown campus</li>
<li>Rice Village</li>
<li>Brilliant and nicce and helpful students</li>
<li>Small number of people</li>
<li>Accesible Adminiostration</li>
<li>School of Engineering and Architecture</li>
<li>The Marching Owl Band (MOB)</li>
<li>Still the best value in higher education</li>
<li>Produced the only PhD to quarterback an NFL champion.</li>
<li>Loads of fun</li>
<li>Yummy ethnic food in restaurants in the area</li>
<li>Warm weather (usually)</li>
<li>Only university to host both the superbowl and the G7 summit</li>
<li>Baker Institute speakers</li>
<li>Chris the hamburger guy at South Servery</li>
<li>Passport to Houston perks (free light rail and bus, discounted museum/theater/symphony tickets)</li>
<li>$5 tickets to the Astros</li>
<li>the honor code</li>
<li>Jake Poteet</li>
<li>Screw Yer Roommate (It is exactly how it sounds)</li>
<li>The Outer Loop</li>
<li>Jarett Dillard</li>
<li>Azalaes</li>
<li>Being in Texas for Blue Bell Ice Cream</li>
<li>Having school colors be the same as the Ravenclaw house colors in Harry Potter</li>
<li>The current attorney general and the good-looking Bush nephew went there</li>
<li>40,000 single males more than single females in Houston.</li>
<li>So many study breaks!</li>
<li>O-week.</li>
<li>Competitive Powderpuff</li>
<li>Beer-Bike</li>
<li>House of Pies</li>
<li>RUPD</li>
<li>Rice Coffeehouse</li>
<li>Mike Gustin's Bio class.</li>
<li>Elmo went there. I'm not joking.</li>
<li>Club Sports are so easy to join.</li>
<li>Clubs for everyone's interests.</li>
<li>Wiess College</li>
<li>The 180, 45 and 90 in the engineering quad... lots of fun to climb</li>
<li>My girlfriend is going there.</li>
<li>Interim Decision option (at least it's a reason to apply)</li>
<li>NOD</li>
<li>Baker 13</li>
<li>Niels from this season of Beauty and the Geek is a Rice grad.</li>
<li>Willy's Pub</li>
<li>Piece of the Berlin Wall on campus</li>
<li>Dalai Lama and Pr. Clinton have spoken on campus</li>
<li>Prof. Houston's Public speaking class</li>
<li>Pres. Kennedy gave his "ask not what your country can do for you..." speech at Rice</li>
<li>Itzhak Perlman, whom many consider to be the world's premier violinist, has conducted and played at the Shephard School where his daughter graduated from last year. He dubbed it the second best school for orchestral studies behind the famed Juilliard</li>
<li>Collaboration over competition amongst students</li>
<li>Larry Izzo, 3-Time Super Bowl Champ with the New England Patriots, was an All American at Rice</li>
<li>Lance Berkman, 4-time All-Star with the Houston Astros and all-around good guy, was an All-American at Rice.</li>
<li>The zoo is very close (I don't know. I just like zoos)</li>
<li>Classes outside</li>
<li>Easy/flexible distribution req.</li>
<li>Easy to double major as result of #74</li>
<li>Humanitarian Medical Outreach (HuMed)</li>
<li>Sephiroth226 is there.</li>
<li>Gives dad a reason to crack random 'rice' jokes whenever we go out to eat.</li>
<li>It is after all "RICE UNIVERSITY"</li>
<li>Owl mascot</li>
<li>Tons of residential college spirit</li>
<li>Wonderful Live Oak trees (don't have them in the N.E.)</li>
<li>Generous Merit Aid (thank you, Rice)</li>
<li>Students are friendly, and great to prefrosh</li>
<li>The ENORMOUS squirrels (some are as big as cats!)</li>
<li>reminds me of the food (rice)</li>
<li>in the city with amazing shopping</li>
<li>the rice box on the application</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>I really like their site. </li>
</ol>
<p><em>This really is one of the main reasons I applied to Rice :D.</em></p>
<ol>
<li>They have a really good alumni network.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>The amazing events available on the campus calendar. Today alone there was "What is existence", Star gazing at night (Rice Space institute); Brown Bag Seminar on Study of Women and Gender; a Symposium - The Hacienda and the Plantation: Historical, Political, and Cultural Legacies; Autrey Symposium, - Aristotelian Natural Philosophy; Keck Seminar Series: Life in a crowd: macromolecular crowding and confinement effects on protein interactions in living systems; the movie TRUE WEST by Sam Shephard, and that was just today! Check out the campus calendar for an amazing banquet of intellectual and fun offerings!</li>
</ol>