<p>i kinda stole this from the emory board, but it was a really good question. what a typical weekday, and a weekend at rice? how often do people go out to houston, and what do people do on weekends? how much work do you usually do on a weekday? thankssss</p>
<p>A good question - but ask 5 people this, and you will certainly get five answers at Rice.</p>
<p>I can give you some ideas though.</p>
<p>Today for example (beginning and ending at midnight):</p>
<p>12am - 1am: I was at Lovett College's annual Casino party. The theme was Moulin Rouge, so we all got dressed up. I danced, but didn't drink. Some people did both or neither or whatever. You didn't have to get dressed up. You could also play various casino games. It was cool. There is generally one such public party each weekend, and lots of people go and they are mostlythemed/ costume parties (ie. 80's, pirate, toga, tropical, etc.)</p>
<p>1am-2am: Spent quality time in my room with a friend.</p>
<p>2am-3am: Hung out with my roommate and her friends from high school.</p>
<p>3am - 11am: sleep</p>
<p>11am-12pm: make myself presentable/do laundry</p>
<p>12pm - 1pm: brunch</p>
<p>1pm-3pm: waste time/do laundry/should have studied!</p>
<p>3pm-4pm: Intramural Soccer practice</p>
<p>4pm-5:30pm: Shower/waste more time</p>
<p>5:30-6:30: dinner</p>
<p>6:30 onward: pretend to study/ waste time/ write an essay/ do physics</p>
<p>around 12am: sleep</p>
<p>Gosh, this was an un-productive day!</p>
<p>There are lots of things to do on weekends that I didn't mention. Some things I often do on weekends include: </p>
<p>Go out to dinner with friends
Go to a cultural or sporting event (friday was rice night at the opera - $10 tix)
Volunteer at Texas Children's Hospital
Go shopping in Rice Village
Watch a movie
Give campus tours for admissions or public relations
Study a lot
Go running
Take naps</p>
<p>As for weekdays, that varies a lot too.</p>
<p>casino night sounds cute!</p>
<p>Yeah, casino night is pretty cool.</p>
<p>People have classes on weekdays, so that's the main event.</p>
<p>It kind of varies a lot, person to person on how much time you spend in class, but a typical day could look something like...</p>
<p>get up at 9 am, class from 10-12, lunch, class from 1-2, meet with prof or something at 2, study time from 2-5:30, dinner at 5:30-6:30, 7pm extra curricular, study from 8-10, 10pm meeting.</p>
<p>Of course, that is completely made up. but it could be that way.</p>
<p>My days are crazy strange because I have a once a week seminar, a once a week meeting for independent research, two labs, and somehow, no firday classes. But basically, on weekdays people go to class, go to meetings/jobs/extracurriculars and study. </p>
<p>Of course, for MUSIs and Archis it's all completely different.</p>
<p>Was all that even remotely useful?</p>
<p>im a mechanical engineer and i actually live a couple rooms down from jenskate1.</p>
<p>my typical weekday:</p>
<p>8am-8:45 am wake up get ready for class
9-12 pm classes
12-2 lunch and whatever (usually nap)
2-3 class
3-9 whatever im in the mood for (sleep, play video games, hang out, eat dinner etc.)
9-11 go to gym and play basketball or workout
11-3 "study" then sleep
rinse and repeat.</p>
<p>my weekend:
sat - sleep in real late, usually till 2-3 or whenever my friends order out for dinner. go hang out with friends, go to a party or two, but unlike jenskate1, i drink.
sunday - another sat for me, but i usually throw in some studying and hw time. when i DO do hw i do it ALL in one sitting so i usually do a weeks worth of hw in 4-5 hrs. </p>
<p>ive been beginning to reflect on my day and realize that i have not done one thing productive, trying to change that. i also noticed, procrastination and prestige are directly related.</p>
<p>but yeah, everyone is different, this works the best for me. i get things more when i study like 1-2 days before a test, but thats just me.</p>
<p>just came back from an overnight visit at rice and it was awesome!!!! every student i met was super friendly and intelligent, the food was actually good, and classes were interesting... just thought id throw that in there, sorry if i hijacked the thread.</p>
<p>what stores are at rice village?</p>
<p>is there a theatre nearby?</p>
<p>how far is the galleria? XD</p>
<p>thanks!!</p>
<p>omg thats awesomee</p>
<p>i spent this thurs night at baker and most of friday afternoon...friday was baker's college night (the theme for their college night was prohibition lol) and if your into that sorta thing, the partying literally starts in the morning and lasts the entire day.</p>
<p>Apollo -- here's a website to check out the stores at Rice Village
<a href="http://www.ricevillageonline.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.ricevillageonline.com/</a></p>
<p>It's a blend of your typical Ann Taylor, Starbucks, Banana Republic type stores and some one-of-a-kind quirky stores.</p>
<p>The Galleria is about 15-20 mintues distance by car. Does anyone know if Rice provides a shuttle to the Galleria? If not, it's only accessible by car.</p>
<p>rice gives you a U-pass which you can use to access Houston's public transportation. IMO Houston's public transportation, METRO, (ie buses) are confusing and they suck. Just get a friend wih car, personally I would NEVER get on a METRO bus after a day of galleria shopping.</p>
<p>The U-pass's access to the light rail is invaluable however (and I have used it for buses to and from the airport). It's really a good deal.</p>
<p>I'm taking 19 hours this semester so I'm crazily busy most of the time:</p>
<p>MWF:
9 - 12 PM classes
12 - 1 lunch
1-5 LAB - either indendent research, chem, or bio
5-6 - dinner
6-7 - homework
7-9 - tutorial session
9-1,2,3? - studying
2 or 3ish - 8 - sleep and repeat</p>
<p>TR:
9-11 (or sometimes 8-11) meetings and homework
11-12 class
12-1 lunch
1-5 LAB - either independent research lab or physics lab
5-6 dinner
6-7 - homework, etc
7-9 review sessions, tutorial sessions
9-1 or 2 a.m. - homework
1-2 a.m. - 8 a.m. - sleep! (and repeat)</p>
<p>Weekends
sleep.....
homework....
more sleeping...</p>
<p>omGGG.</p>
<p>you sound like you have no social life...but perhaps im wrong...do u ever have time to just hang out w/friends?..</p>
<p>Yeah, that's generally what weekends are for. Most of my friends like me are SEs, so we tend to be pretty loaded with work during the week and more available on weekends. Of course I'm taking a lot of hours, which tends to gobble up my time.</p>
<p>I'll post for daughter since she doesn't frequent this board. Actually don't know her total schedule - but I think she gets up and runs or works out a bit, then breakfast, then classes or work on campus (she's not workstudy, but found a really nice job that pays $8 an hour, and sometimes she can even study on the job - 10 hours a week.) She finds time to practice with her club sport 3 times a week for two hours or so, attend rehearsals for the upcoming musical "Ruddigore", meet with study abroad advisors to plan her semester in Chile, Argentina, Spain or somewhere next year, have dinner out with friends, do laundry, study like crazy, attend a great seminar with 5 students, do some research/study, and sleep a little. I think she's busy, with a capital B, but there is lots of social time in there. (I figure that eating in the serveries counts as social time, doesn't it? And working out is social time? and walking the loop is social time? And playing a club sport is social time? And small seminars are social time? See, lot's of social time!)</p>
<p>Wow, emilia, your schedule is jam-packed. by SE do you mean science/engineering? i heard that humanities students tend to have less work.</p>
<p>^^yeah that's what my student host at rice told me. she's an art hist major, and she says the bulk of her work comes from reading, not really studying or homework per se. She says that the SE's (science/engineering majors) are always giving the academs (humanities/social sciences majors) a hard time because the academs have comparatively much less work. she says she has plenty of free time like most academs to do other stuff like clubs and hang out w/friends and party on the weekends. however, she said that if you learn to budget your time anyone can have time to do whatever (with the exception of the archies (architecture majors) who are ALWAYS working, according to her.</p>
<p>Yeah, SE is science/engineering. I'm doing biochem right now, and would like to add English if I can get enough English classes in over four years. SEs are usually overloaded with work every week - labs, problem sets due each Friday, quizzes, pledged problems, etc. Academs have lots of reading and papers here and there. For example, I took a 300-level English last semester, and getting an A only involved writing two 6-page papers (which maybe took me 3 or 4 hours each) and doing well on two 3-hour-long midterms which consisted of a few essays with detailed prompts. Reading was assigned for each class, but as I found, skimming the reading and then going to class and taking notes was more than sufficient. By contrast, I spent much more time and worked much, much harder in 100-level physics and chemistry and didn't do as well grade-wise.</p>