<p>"Do you guys know if hurricanes are a big safety issue there?"</p>
<p>As a Katrina survivor(south MS) i can tell you that hurricanes are not dangerous if you use good judgement and have the resources to get away from the coastal areas. I lost my house in Katrina, but never felt that i was in any danger of being physically harmed. As an undergrad, you will live in a dorm, so you won't have to worry about losing many material possessions. And I would hope that as a Rice student you would have the common sense to get out of a hurricane's path. And if you didn't have the resources to leave, i'm sure that Rice University would take care of you and make arrangements to get you to higher ground.</p>
<p>But don't forget that hurricanes as strong or even half as strong as Ike are extremely rare, especially in Houston.</p>
<p>rice is absolutely amzing enough said. i went there this past week for spring break and i loved it. the only thing im going to have to get used to is the humidity and heat. but now im kinda biting my nails because my friends are getting their decisions already</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 hip-shaking music videos on YouTube when you type in “rice university”</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>Thresher newspaper</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>
<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>
<li>I really like their site.</li>
<li>They have a really good alumni network.</li>
<li>The amazing events available on the campus calendar. Today alone there was…Check out the campus calendar for an amazing banquet of intellectual and fun offerings!</li>
<li>Project Runway winner Chloe Dao’s boutique is just a stone throw away. Lot 8</li>
<li>At one point in time, Rice owned Yankee Stadium</li>
<li>Tibetan Classes</li>
<li>Emphasis on undergraduates (only a business school for professional schools; relatively few graduate students)</li>
<li>Free cable (apparently Cornell doesn’t have it!)</li>
<li>I love Rain since I am living in the dry place</li>
<li>Gives Merit Aid to Internationals!! (especially if you’re International)</li>
<li>One of only a few colleges that are part of the Jetro (Japanese Trade Organization) internship project. Spend a summer in Japan with an Internship!</li>
<li>It’s one of the few CC forums to actually finish 100 reasons!</li>
<li>The Box.</li>
<li>Loans are capped at a certain amount (no more than $14000 for 4 years, less if you make a certain amount)</li>
<li>“A survey of more than two dozen of the most prestigious universities (including the Ivies) in the nation showed that more Rice seniors win admission to their first-choice graduate school than do students from any other university” - this from a published history of Rice by a professor of history, in reference to a survey in the mid 1990s {this was taken from Facebook questionably unreliable?}</li>
<li>Rice is 1st in the percentage of students that go on to win National Science Fellowships {also taken from Facebook}</li>
<li>Free laundry</li>
<li>5:1 student:teacher ratio</li>
<li>Free Campanile yearbooks</li>
<li>We’re better than Duke</li>
<li>Air conditioning</li>
<li>Fairy Fountain</li>
<li>Nearby Theatre District in Houston</li>
<li>Houston Galleria</li>
<li>More trees on campus than undergraduates</li>
<li>Bacchanalia</li>
<li>Angelika movie theatre (which sometimes gives discounts to Rice students)</li>
<li>Very generous with taking AP credits</li>
<li>The fact that there are more than 101 reasons to attend Rice!</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Lazar Greenfield M.D. Inventor of the Greenfield Inferior Vena Cava Filter and Author of Greenfield’s Surgery is an alum.</li>
<li>Reading a list like this almost 20 yrs after graduation still makes you feel proud.</li>
<li>Giant diplomas.</li>
<li>Excellent graduation rate, even among Division one atheletes (assuming it still is)</li>
</ol>
<p>Sure, not real reasons to attend Rice, but some of the others listed aren’t either… very few other schools can brag about such an interesting history as Rice can.</p>
<ol>
<li>President John F. Kennedy gave one of the most memorable speeches of the 20th century at Rice Stadium about sending a man to the moon</li>
<li>Rice owned Yankee Stadium from 1962 and 1971… Yankee Stadium was painted blue and white (similar to Rice colors) in 1966.</li>
<li>Rice held the 16th G7 Summit (Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations) in 1990</li>
<li>Rice Stadium hosted the 1972 Super Bowl between Minnesota Vikings and the Miami Dolphins… only one other university stadium has every hosted a Super Bowl.</li>
<li>President George H.W. Bush was an adjunct professor at Rice’s Jones School of Management before becoming Vice-President.</li>
<li>Rice owns a tree farm in Louisiana.</li>
</ol>
<p>Does anyone find it odd that whenever someone talks about how Yankee Stadium was owned by Rice for a brief period of time it was painted blue and white to match Rice colors? Because last time I checked, those aren’t Rice’s colors; they’re the YANKEES’ colors.</p>
<ol>
<li>Best-looking Spanish architecture of any college campus</li>
<li>5th highest endowment per student</li>
<li>#1 quality of life according to Princeton Review’s 2010 rankings</li>
<li>#1 class/racial interaction</li>
<li>One of the two smallest research universities in the country (other one is CalTech)</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 hip-shaking music videos on YouTube when you type in “rice university”</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>Thresher newspaper</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>
<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>
<li>I really like their site.</li>
<li>They have a really good alumni network.</li>
<li>The amazing events available on the campus calendar. Today alone there was…Check out the campus calendar for an amazing banquet of intellectual and fun offerings!</li>
<li>Project Runway winner Chloe Dao’s boutique is just a stone throw away. Lot 8</li>
<li>At one point in time, Rice owned Yankee Stadium</li>
<li>Tibetan Classes</li>
<li>Emphasis on undergraduates (only a business school for professional schools; relatively few graduate students)</li>
<li>Free cable (apparently Cornell doesn’t have it!)</li>
<li>I love Rain since I am living in the dry place</li>
<li>Gives Merit Aid to Internationals!! (especially if you’re International)</li>
<li>One of only a few colleges that are part of the Jetro (Japanese Trade Organization) internship project. Spend a summer in Japan with an Internship!</li>
<li>It’s one of the few CC forums to actually finish 100 reasons!</li>
<li>The Box.</li>
<li>Loans are capped at no more than $10,000 total for entire 4 years (less if your income is below a certain level). </li>
<li>“A survey of more than two dozen of the most prestigious universities (including the Ivies) in the nation showed that more Rice seniors win admission to their first-choice graduate school than do students from any other university” - this from a published history of Rice by a professor of history, in reference to a survey in the mid 1990s {this was taken from Facebook questionably unreliable?}</li>
<li>Rice is 1st in the percentage of students that go on to win National Science Fellowships {also taken from Facebook}</li>
<li>Free laundry</li>
<li>5:1 student:teacher ratio</li>
<li>Free Campanile yearbooks</li>
<li>We’re better than Duke</li>
<li>Air conditioning</li>
<li>Fairy Fountain</li>
<li>Nearby Theatre District in Houston</li>
<li>Houston Galleria</li>
<li>More trees on campus than undergraduates</li>
<li>Bacchanalia</li>
<li>Angelika movie theatre (which sometimes gives discounts to Rice students)</li>
<li>Very generous with taking AP credits</li>
<li>The fact that there are more than 101 reasons to attend Rice! </li>
<li>Lazar Greenfield M.D. Inventor of the Greenfield Inferior Vena Cava Filter and Author of Greenfield’s Surgery is an alum.</li>
<li>Reading a list like this almost 20 yrs after graduation still makes you feel proud.</li>
<li>Giant diplomas.</li>
<li>Excellent graduation rate, even among Division one athletes (assuming it still is) </li>
<li>Up to 3 vanity emails - I’ve never heard of any other school being that generous </li>
<li>Has the BEST virtual tour!</li>
<li>President John F. Kennedy gave one of the most memorable speeches of the 20th century at Rice Stadium about sending a man to the moon</li>
<li>Rice owned Yankee Stadium from 1962 and 1971.</li>
<li>Rice held the 16th G7 Summit (Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations) in 1990</li>
<li>Rice Stadium hosted the 1972 Super Bowl between Minnesota Vikings and the Miami Dolphins… only one other university stadium has every hosted a Super Bowl.</li>
<li>President George H.W. Bush was an adjunct professor at Rice’s Jones School of Management and a community associate at Lovett College before becoming Vice-President.</li>
<li>Rice owns a tree farm in Louisiana.</li>
<li>Rice is on the Main Street, on which 4 Universities situated, UHD-Rice-UT Houston-Baylor Med.</li>
<li>Rice students are truly kind, friendly, and exceptionally smart people to know – and their parents are nice, too. </li>
<li>Ranked #8 for happiest students by the 2010 Princeton Review college guidebook.</li>
</ol>