<p>I know about Rice's residential college system but I am just unsure of how much I would like it. Honestly to me it makes Rice sound more like a boarding school than a university? What are the benefits of living all four years on campus and what a the detriments. If you went to Rice are you glad you were part of the residential college system or do you wish that you had lived off campus after the first year or two?</p>
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<p>Welcome to college. Honestly, your not going to get cooked meals by your mom and live in your home. College is pretty much boarding school. You have a RA you live away from home while you get educated. That goes for every school</p>
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<p>If we went to Rice and lived in an residential college system, we would have different opinions with each other and with you</p>
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Well we don’t know how much you will like it either =D. jkjk
Ok residential college is pretty much this: you eat, sleep, study, play, talk mainly with the people in your residential college. You get to know more people from different grades. You not only get to know freshmen, you know more sophomores, juniors and seniors. That’s the benefit of residential college system. That way you get advice and help from them.</p>
<p>Best of Luck!</p>
<p>you can move off campus at anytime if you want to, fyi</p>
<p>honestly, see how the first year goes. the second year you will probably be kicked off campus</p>
<p>compare the 2 and decide for the final 2 years. dont think too far ahead, its a waste of time</p>
<p>As a student who will be coming to Rice in the fall, the residential college system has made me MUCH less nervous about going to a new school where I don’t know a single person.</p>
<p>I have a lot of friends going to other schools who are so stressed about rushing sororities, trying to fit in with the right people, etc. and I think if I had to worry about all that stuff it would really be a detriment to my college experience.</p>
<p>The way I see it is your residential college is what you make of it–if you want to be super-involved with the workings of your residential college, or if you only make friends inside your residential college, then that is what will happen. If you want to get involved with other people, you do extracurriculars, or just take it upon yourself to introduce yourself to people in your classes, etc.</p>
<p>When I went to visit Rice, I actually asked an entire tableful of students what they thought about the RC system. 9/10 said they loved it. One student said that she thought the system wasn’t really for her, so after moving off-campus her sophomore year she just stayed off-campus and still had a great experience. So it’s not something that’s really forced upon you, and I think only good things can come out of it.</p>
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Depends on the college. Juniors for DS’s college. And at Lovett, they don’t seem to have to ask any/many to leave. ;)</p>
<p>DD loves her college and the residential system, even though she moved off campus and is not returning to on campus. There is more to it than just where you live. It is a community of people with a common interest and common goals even if they do not live together. She participates in the activities, the meetings, still has lunch there, still feels very much a part of the college. .</p>
<p>but then again, do you want to live at lovett? :P</p>
<p>but yeah, SRC and Lovett jack juniors… possibly someone else (maybe Jones?) but either way, you can use your first year to see how it goes</p>
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<p>Actually, this year we had to kick people off! We had the largest portion of the freshman class staying on-campus that we’ve had in several years.</p>
<p><em>notices the strong correlation between the rennovation and the housing situation</em></p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>but yeah, they redid the Airconditioning in lovett and are putting in new furniture. So its a lot nicer to live in</p>
<p>Good - it was pretty grim when DD lived there 5 years ago…</p>
<p>It’s not that important, but Martel also kicks juniors rather than sophomores.</p>
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<p>Yeah. the new furniture will be like Martel and Wiess. so he smaller rooms are easier to change around because the furniture is lighter and easy to move</p>
<p>Alright, all this makes it sound a whole lot better. When I visited the creepy admissions officer made it out to sound like a cult. I would be coming from a different state on the east coast and would most likely not know anyone so the whole idea of being surrounded by different years is appealing. </p>
<p>And what I meant by the boarding school think was not distance from home but less independence.</p>
<p>there is plenty of independence. you have your own college “government”, your own sports teams and traditions.</p>
<p>And it is like boarding school in the sense that you have a community you live and work with but no one gives a crap what you do and with who and when.</p>
<p>Where do students live when they are kicked off campus? It seems like that is a pretty big negative to Rice’s housing situation.</p>
<p>[Rice</a> Student Center](<a href=“http://offcampus.rice.edu/]Rice”>http://offcampus.rice.edu/)</p>
<p>There are MANY off campus places near rice. a lot of people want to move off for a lack of space/kitchen/want to live with many friends</p>
<p>If you REALLY want to stay on campus all 4 years you can. the year people are kicked off, you probably can squeeze in albeit with no choice in who you live with</p>
<p>DD has friends who have not been kicked off and still lived with their roommate of choice. Not necessarily easy and they teemed up with a couple of others for the suite to improve their odds. But there are people like my own DD and her roommates that choose to live off campus for various reasons and open up spaces for those that do not want to.</p>
<p>My son, who just graduated, had a group of friends who wanted to try off campus life, so he chose to go with them for junior year at Sid Rich.
Although he found off campus life harder, he learned so much about taking care of himself. Now that he’s graduated he knew how to look for an apartment, what he needed to do to find one and set it up and how to handle any problem that might occur. That may not have been his first choice, but he did not regret the experience. He was happy to jump back on campus for senior year! He also discovered that he loves to cook!</p>
<p>OP - also you can live on campus and still learn the OC experience. if you work over the summer for a company that is not near home, you will end up taking an apartment and living. </p>
<p>but there are a lot of things to learn when off campus staying in an apartment. for me, I am too closely tied up with the university and college for me to move oc</p>