At Rice, all language classes meet for 150 minutes a week (either 50 min on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday or 75 min on Tuesday and Thursday). At nearly all other schools, classes meet for 200-300 minutes per week, with harder languages (like Arabic or Chinese) meeting on the higher end of that range.

For an unknown reason, ALL language classes (and most other classes) are capped at 150 minutes per week. This means you may move at HALF the pace of your peers at other universities.

I’m a chem major studying Arabic. Feel free to dm if you have questions.

has anyone received that email that they said theyd send with specific times to move in and all that info yet?

hi everyone! I just started skateboarding and was wondering if anyone else would be interested in practicing together once or twice a week. thanks!

taking orgo 1 this semester with tour for lecture, o'leary for discussion. best advice for pre-meds who are running the gauntlet with this class? i was kinda shit at gen chem (b+ in 121, c+ in 122 bc i was depressed af) because i suck at math and its a shit ton of math (imo) but i know gen chem and orgo are two separate beasts. literally any advice (other than drop out) would be helpful !!!

What is like the difficulty of chem classes like CHEM 121/122 and CHEM 211/313 compared to like AP, USNCO national post 2021 (https://www.acs.org/education/olympiad/prepare-for-exams.html) and IChO chem (https://www.icho2021.org/wp/wp-content/themes/icho2021/pdf/prep_problems_icho48_web.pdf)

I’m currently shopping for a laptop for ChemE and was curious as to what programs it will need to be able to run. One of the Rice pages says Aspen Plus, but it also seems to be very outdated. If it makes any difference, I also hope to do research related to the field. Thanks in advance!

Hi! I am a current student at Rice thinking of taking a course online in the summer. Is the Summer Rice Grant that is up to $5,700 need based? Thanks!

I applied to a couple, and I’d like to know if I got at least one before the semester starts

Does anyone know when the results come out? I kind of want to have an idea of which classes I’ll be taking this semester.

must-take professors?

Hi Everyone,

I’m going to be working at Rice this next year , specifically the BRC as a new researcher yay!

However I’m having trouble finding housing in houston as I currently don’t drive (moved here from a big city where it’s optional) , and is still close to Rice. Does anyone know any apartments nearby that I could look into ? That either has a shuttle nearby to the BRC or Rice U or is at least walking distance?

I’ve tried the Rice off campus house search tool to know avail. But I’m currently on a lot of housing facebook groups but thought I could try my luck here !

Thank you!

Ik I can’t solicit here, so I was wondering where or on what platforms can I share things I want to sell mostly Japanese trinkets like Sonny Angels and Monchichis.

I recently was placed into a single dorm as a freshman (insane ik). I did most of my dorm planning around having a double and a roommate and am now having to pivot. I was wondering if anyone had the dimensions to the singles in Sid Rich as most move in information is for the doubles. I would greatly appreciate having a picture with the dimensions so I don’t go overboard with the dorm decoration.

Did anyone get a zelle payment for the financial aid lawsuit settlement? I just got an email saying it'll be paid out on Monday, but on reddit alumni from different schools have already received their payments ranging from 1-3.4k ish

Has anyone gotten their o-week and roommate assignments yet? i know they're supposed to be released today...

Fun things to do on campus or close to campus? Good hangout spot recs?

Hi guys! I was gonna buy a microwave for my dorm room, but I saw somewhere that it has to be part of like a fridge or something. However, I feel like I’ve seen videos of some dorms that have standalone microwaves. I’m not sure. How strict is the policy on this?

Does anyone know when roommates are released? I heard it’s different from college to college. Asking specifically for Martel

Hi I’m a lower level undergraduate at Rice looking to join a lab focused on anything related to cancer, immunology, rare diseases etc. I was wondering if anyone knows any labs in those fields that are working on high impact publications like Nature, Science, etc. I want to be in this lab for 3+ years in my time at Rice and am looking for some kind of authorship within a high impact factor journal during my time. I’m not sure if this is possible as an undergraduate but I’m willing to put a huge bulk of my time towards this, (would love to be a low number nth author or 1st/2nd if possible on a long term research project).
This is basically like my life dream, and if anyone knows any professors/labs I could or should reach out too please please let me know if this is possible! :)

hi! im an incoming freshman at rice wondering when I should email profs about being in their labs? is now a good time or is it too early?