Vision 2005

<p>Hey guys, how was vision weekend?</p>

<p>it was awesome - i liked the school a lot more than i expected to. We got a chance to go to up to 3 classes, and 2 of mine were great (the third, a history class, was ok). However, it seemed like everyone there had already been accepted - I'm RD, and I felt like one of the only ones. Hopefully that's a good sign then? I was also the only one from my state.</p>

<p>(btw, george, if you see this, hello, nifty, and thanks)</p>

<p>Which classes did you get to go to?</p>

<p>I went to multivariable calc., intro to linguistics, and intro to medieval civ.</p>

<p>My D wants to major in Linguistics. She tried to find a class when we went down for her interview. She ended up in an animal rights class and just left because she was disecting a cat at that time. We were all tired and just wanted to go home. At that time we just decided to let it be. She was joyfully admitted, but we don't know if she will be able to take the days off to attend owl weekend. Are you all (ya'll) going to that too?</p>

<p>My roommate was in that animal rights class, and liked it - but i can understand how your situation was. Owl weekend was great, but it's by no means mandatory. Good luck with your decision!</p>

<p>It is just that she has a chance to be exempt from all her finals. She can't have more than two absences and she came home one day with the flu. It would be fun though, and she deserves some fun.</p>

<p>It's a tough call...if the finals aren't too too numerous and won't take too much studying to do well enough to keep her spot at rice, I'd say come to owl weekend.</p>

<p>Vision 2005 was great. Of the three classes I went to, 2 I really enjoyed. I did have some issues with the biochem professor but no school is perfect.</p>

<p>I didn't realize Rice's campus was so gorgeous though, egads.</p>

<p>the chick singing at friday's dinner wasn't as good as alicia keys. Did you hear alicia keys at the grammys? wow. that was a performance for the ages. I got to see Dr. Smalley! You know, the nobel prize winner for the buckey ball. and Equus - wow what a disturbing and moving play, just absolutely stunning and beautiful.</p>

<p>it was awesome...i am really considering rice after this weekend. for that dinner i got to sit next to Robert Curl, also a nobel prize winner for the buckey ball. btw, that girl was a very very good singer. I was really impressed.</p>

<p>I ate lunch with Dr. Curl once - he's a faculty associate at Lovett. Nice guy, but very quiet. It was fun to eat chicken fingers with a noble laureate though!</p>

<p>yeah he was pretty quiet, but he said a few funny things</p>

<p>I sat with a linguistics teacher at Rice during that dinner. I told her I was interested in linguistics (I am - I've read Chomsky and Pinker) and told her I was caught between MIT and Rice. She said she and the Rice linguistics dept. completely disagree with MIT's stance on linguistics, especially Chomsky and Pinker (who's actually at Harvard).</p>

<p>hm...thats very interesting, because I was also considering Wellesley so that I could take ling. classes at MIT (And other things, of course. MIT itself just doesnt interest me)- thanks for the info.</p>

<p>Re: Ling at Rice - Last semester I took both Ling and Philosophical Aspects of Cognitive Science (in which we read both Chomsky and Pinker, among others). The Phil prof was insistent that the Rice ling department has very unconventional views on a lot of topics - but since I only took one ling class, I'm not that clear on the details of this. I suppose you could e-mail my prof and ask him for more info on that - he's also the coordinator for the cognitive science major, if that's something you're interested in. Anyway, i guess I shouldn't post his e-mail here, but PM me or just look around the cog sci page at rice, if you are interested in that.</p>

<p>gospurs-
Did you ever get in touch with my s. to discuss the Rice/MIT thing?? Sounds like lots of folks on this forum have been exploring that issue. Oh-- and as an aside, to take a bit of a break from all his engineering/phyiscs stuff, he's taking a cooking class taught by the chef from his servery. I can't WAIT for spring break next week, to see what he'll cook up for us at the ski slopes! Several of his Rice friends will be staying with us at different times during the week in the house we rented at the slopes. This should be fun!</p>

<p>Seriously, get him to make you one of the south servery desserts! A guy I know walked all the way to the south servery just to get dessert tonight - we were all SO jealous, but too lazy to do the same!</p>

<p>hey cubed, you might consider not going to wellesley cause the ONLY thing on wellesley girls' minds are MIT guys. lol.</p>

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<p>From what I have heard, the linguistics/philosophy professors refuse to play the "Chomsky Game."</p>