<p>-Is parking good enough that bringing a car will be a luxury or a hassle?</p>
<p>-Is it a better/cheaper idea to bring my own printer?</p>
<p>-Cellphone reception? I use Tmobil.</p>
<p>-Visiting. Is there a way I can get them to pay for me to come like some schools do?</p>
<p>1) Freshmen, Sophs, and Juniors typically park in the Stadium lot and there are shuttles. Parking isn't cheap, especially for those of us who remember when it was free. Your yearly fee for parking in the Stadium lot (west lot) will probably be on the order of 250-300 dollars per year.</p>
<p><a href="http://rupd.rice.edu/Parkingregs.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://rupd.rice.edu/Parkingregs.pdf</a></p>
<p>2) Eh, bringing your own printer is mainly a matter of convenience. There are printers in labs on campus, but sometimes they're broken, and sometimes they're all the way across campus, and sometimes you might not have any pages left in your print quota.</p>
<p>3) It's the middle of Houston. Pretty much the only place you <em>won't</em> get reception is in a basement or something, and then, it doesn't much matter who your provider is.</p>
<p>4) Well, they won't pay for you to visit unless you're our next starting pitcher and are valedictorian of your class and have won awards for your world-renowned basketweaving... But if you're in N. Texas, then you're only 4 or 5 hours away by car. Just carpool with a couple of other people who want to visit and have the admissions office set things up to stay with a student in the dorms, if you want to do things the cheap way. Also, Southwest is way cheap if you look for specials. They fly into Hobby, which is ~20/30 minutes away from Rice, by car.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>