<p>When do they place us into colleges if you are coming in as a Freshman?</p>
<p>Which college has the most fun, parties, etc...?</p>
<p>Which college is the worst to be in?</p>
<p>Which college has the best looking girls (serious question)?</p>
<p>Which college is the best, location wise</p>
<p>There's really not that much variation between colleges. We all have fun, we all have our fair share of attractive girls, we all have our geographic advantages (except maybe the north colleges). The best college is whichever college you're placed in to (which will happen in June).</p>
<p>But really, Lovett is the best.</p>
<p>Lovett, hate it, burn it to the ground.</p>
<p>You didn't even get it right. Come on, now, it's "Lovett, hate it, burn it DOWN"</p>
<p>Either way, it still deserves to be burned. Lol.</p>
<p>The simple fact is that Martel is the best college ever. Now, I know this will spur some debate regarding Martel's status as a college, but I can assure you that any criticisms thrown at Martel stem from pure, unbridled jealousy.</p>
<p>Freshmen will get their college letters sometime around July.</p>
<p>All the colleges have fun in their own way, and all do this to some extent by having parties. Some colleges place more emphasis on parties than others, but you can find that out for yourself when you get here (along with all of the characteristics of all of the colleges).</p>
<p>There is no way to tell best or worst from an objective point of view. Wherever you get placed, you will be entirely indoctrinated into that college and brainwashed to the point where is truly seems unbelievable that any college other than your own could match its awesomeness. Seriously, the worst thing you could do before getting your letter is getting your hopes up (or down) about any particular college, because chances are it will lead to disappointment and you won't be in the right attitude when you arrive for O-Week.</p>
<p>College assignments are random, so the "girl population" is, debatably, not significantly different on a whole from any one college to another.</p>
<p>There are advantages to the locations of all the colleges. You can find a map on the Rice website. The ones closer to classrooms have that convenience, but the ones on the outskirts have more privacy, which could potentially result in more close-knit communities. There are currently more South colleges than North colleges, so the South has the advantage of mingling with more of the student body, whereas the North has more of the latter, identity-building benefits.</p>
<p>Jones Wins Again!</p>
<p>Jones is bad ass.</p>
<p>why is Martel not a college. I've been seeing this everywhere lol</p>
<p>That is a blatant fabrication, Jblack.</p>
<p>Martel is the newest college (by about 30 years), which means that the rest of us give them a hard time for not having as many traditions, etc. Some people take it way too far, but for the most part it's just a fun little Rice tradition to tell Martel that they are not a college.</p>
<p>It's also worth noting that the colleges kind of pair off into rivalries by when they were founded/geographical location. Baker and Will Rice are technically the first two colleges (they got their paperwork done first), and they're in the two oldest buildings on the south end of campus. Hanszen and Wiess are the other two original south colleges. Brown and Jones are the two women's colleges and the original north colleges. Lovett and Sid were built within four years of each other, and Sid was built in Lovett's parking lot, so we claimed them as our colony. McMurtry and Duncan will be the "rich Irish twins." Martel just kind of stands alone.</p>
<p>That said, Martel is really starting to come into its own in terms of organization and traditions. They're starting to get their own public parties, they've got their identity as the "Greek" college, and they've done some clever Willy Week jacks this year.</p>
<p>I hope we weren't too loud during your song yesterday, NYSkins.</p>
<p>"Clever Willy Week jacks"??? Running around a college's hall and screaming is not clever, only annoying.</p>
<p>Think less that one, and more removing the walls between the stalls in Will Rice or invading Lovett at lunch so that we could "dine in hell."</p>
<p>Anyway, what did Jones do? "Come on, guys, let's stack up some tables and chairs and then write something on the floor! That'll be awesome."</p>
<p>Meh, the mic didn't work anyway, so it wouldn't have mattered.</p>
<p>I just wanted to make sure we didn't seem rude.</p>
<p>Sid Rich is clearly the tallest, and bigger being better, you should seriously hope that you get into Sid.</p>
<p>Lovett claims Sid is its colony simply because it has a keen envy of anything longer than it is wide.</p>
<p>Team Wiess--the new building opened in fall 2002. Has the best party NOD, hands-down, even without that old 1970's Playboy endorsement. Others try, but Wiess rules, or so I've been advised by all that really matter---Wiessmen.<br>
To get a feel of each college, go to each respective college website for more info. Even Wikipedia has quick references to each college under the Rice University main heading.<br>
Also, Wiess has some great looking girls, like my DD.</p>
<p>Or instead you can just wait until you actually get here to find out and form your own opinions about colleges. Reading up too much is like looking at the Christmas presents before they're wrapped.</p>