<p>We’d make a pretty damn nice hostel.</p>
<p>My favorite jack of all time remains that time DorianMode’s neighbors (?) replaced all the bike seats at Will Rice with plaster dildos. (Am I allowed to say that on here?)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rice-university/46147-martel-ebay.html?[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rice-university/46147-martel-ebay.html?</a></p>
<p>Those were my roommates, actually, but not the year I lived with them.</p>
<p>Will Rice- empirically the best college. Very simple really. Also Dorian/silentsailor, when did that jack happen? I don’t remember that.</p>
<p>That jack happened at least three years ago, I think.</p>
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<p>Stop lying to the prospies!</p>
<p>haha yeah, in all seriousness you will most likely be very happy wherever you do end up being assigned.</p>
<p>Baker:
Pro- cool old-fashioned commons. Some people really like their servery, which has a lot of vegetarian/organic/etc.-type options.
Con- parties there are terrible. I kind of hate their servery.
Will Rice:
Pros- Mad Beer Bike skills, Long Hall
Cons- “too competitive”, sometimes more insular than a lot of other colleges, Long Hall
Hanszen:
Pros- Who cares? Hanszen still sucks.
Cons- see “Pros”.
Wiess:
Pros- Nice facilities because they have a ton of money.
Cons- They are a cult.
Jones:
Pros- North Servery.
Cons- Ceilings are absurdly low. Insert witty comment about goats.
Brown:
Pros- I actually know almost nothing about Brown, to be honest.
Cons- They are Jones. Also they are roughly 192381253 miles from everything else on campus. I can imagine that Brown Tower is a horrible place to live.
Lovett:
Pros- East Servery. And a trampoline.
Cons- Crap building/rooms.
Sid Rich:
Pros- Sid 7th is possibly the most notorious party floor on campus.
Cons- Sid 7th actually sucks. So does their servery.
Martel:
Pros- Probably the nicest rooms of any college. Great facilities overall from what I’ve seen.
Cons- They aren’t a college.
Duncan/McMurtry:
Pros- They’re new.
Cons- No identity/traditions to this point, whatsoever.</p>
<p>But let’s be serious. You’ll all overlook the cons by the end of O-Week, as a result of systematic brainwashing. This sounds a bit concerning, but is really extremely awesome.</p>
<p>Point of all this banter is that all the colleges are equal, except Hanszen is more equal than the others.</p>
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<p>That might be the worst compliment anyone has given their college. ;)</p>
<p>On the topic of Martel rooms… [Rice</a> Cribs: Where the magic happens - The Rice Thresher - Rice University](<a href=“http://www.ricethresher.org/rice-cribs-where-the-magic-happens-1.2754192]Rice”>http://www.ricethresher.org/rice-cribs-where-the-magic-happens-1.2754192)</p>
<p>I’m torn between being proud of my friends for being creative bastards and being embarrassed that the Thresher is now offering a “Rice Cribs” feature.</p>
<p>@Antarius - I’m being humble here, throw me a bone huh? hahaha</p>
<p>Long hall is a con?</p>
<p>I disagree with Duncan/McMurtry having no identity/traditions as a con. I actually think its not entirely true, but if anything a pro. As a McMurtry freshman, I can say that there is a Murt identity and some traditions. The real pro is the opportunity for freshman to have a large impact on their college. I don’t think I would have been able to be a committee head as a freshman at any other college (of a committee I started). If you’re willing to take the initiative and start something, Duncan and McMurtry are awesome places to be.</p>
<p>Bottom line: all of the colleges have pros and cons. But if you ask any student which college is the best, they will say their own college 99% of the time. Each college is effectively a unique interpretation of the same set of objectives and mission.</p>
<p>Yeah it really depends on the attitude you take. Because Duncan and McMurtry’s traditions aren’t set in stone since they are only a couple years old, you have a huge opportunity of being the students who turn the college into what it is. That’s an extremely exciting thought, in my opinion. Especially the thought of being a committee head, starting a committee, etc. You can do a lot even in your earliest days, which you couldn’t do so easily at one of the more established colleges.</p>
<p>However, what you lack is the feeling of being welcomed into something that’s been there long before you and will be there long after; it feels eternal, it feels empowering, being enlisted to continue your college’s tradition and uphold its pride. And it’s just so fun learning about your college’s history and everything too. I personally am so thankful to be at one of the original four colleges for these reasons. Our history is so rich and our tradition so fulfilling, it’s just where I’m meant to be and thus I am so incredibly passionate about Hanszen.</p>
<p>So adamb529 is definitely right that all college’s have their own pros and cons, even when it comes down to age. (Another benefit of Duncan/McMurtry/Martel is that their rooms are a lot newer and thus larger and in most cases nicer; pretty much everyone shares bathrooms with their roommates only, while at Hanszen you share a bathroom with at least four other people.)</p>
<p>Duncan and McMurtry’s traditions include having freshmen with alarmingly low tolerances for alcohol and competing with each other to see which of them can get more people EMS’d.</p>
<p>In all seriousness though, I would not want to be a student in those two colleges for the next few years until they actually find an identity. That’s just my opinion (and probably biased since I’m at one of the oldest colleges on campus), many people would want to be in an environment in which they perceive they could have more opportunities to “shaping” the college.</p>
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<p>This is not at all true. Duncan has had remarkably few incidents this year, especially when compared to other colleges. Some of the older colleges have had far more problems.</p>
<p>To add to that, the incidents that McMurtry was accused of last year were mostly students from other colleges. It just happened to take place at McMurtry.</p>
<p>@demonsword55: I also said Long Hall was a pro… it can be a lot of fun but idk, it just seems like the ONLY people I ever see there are Will Ricers (insular from other colleges)… In all seriousness though, I wouldn’t want to live on that floor.</p>