I visited Rice University during the summer of my Junior year on a school trip, the Science Academy of South Texas a magnet school specializing in engineering, math, and science. I visited for a session of 2 weeks where we visited the university, attended classes, stayed in a hotel since we couldn't in the doors, and visited many of the important attractions that Houston had to offer including a private tour of NASA, Shell, MD Anderson and even got to go to the amusement park. I learned more in that summer about myself in that short amount of time than I could fathom. I learned about college life, independence since I had never been gone from home for longer than a few days, connecting to people, life and death from the hospital, but more importantly, I learned about myself. I learned that I had to speak up for myself, sell myself without being fake, be comfortable with being my own person, and I learned that the best friend you could ever have is the one that stares back at you every morning. THe one that knows you best and can guide you with your passions to learn and live is yourself. I fell in love with Rice university and wanted and still want to go to school there. It's a gorgeous campus that has so much to offer including one of the most prestigious colleges in Texas and the US.
Currently I am attending college at College Station at Texas A and M doing my undergrad degree in the School of Architecture which is also very prestigious and ranked in the top ten in the nation, tieing with Yale University. I am excelling in my studies and am enjoying my classes learning a lot from them, having plenty of laughs, sunsets and sunrises in one day working in studio, but I'm learning and living and following my passion. For the time being my place is here in College Station, but in the future I would like to pursue graduate school at Rice. I want to go to a different university to not settle and conform to one point of view offered here at A and M but rather get other perspectives those of which are offered in the big city of Houston. Maybe my passion will push elsewhere but for now I hope to go to Rice. The experience had there was a unique one and one I will never forget. The campus is inviting and the people are friendly. I know my education and time spent here at A and M is well worth it and a stepping stone to get to graduate school and it will take hard work, but it's something I'm willing to work for.
Why Rice you ask? According to Rodolfo Machado of Machado-Silvetti Associates in Cambridge writes: "We have had similar experiences with a few other schools across the country, and Rice is the only one where we find students to be intellectually developed and professionally useful, which is unfortunately a rare condition these days. " That's saying something. Rice accepts only 200 students each semester divided between graduate and undergraduate to the program. It is needless to say very difficult to get into. It offers an accredited Architecture degree for 5 years and offers a lot of study abroad programs to help create well rounded students. Links are shown at the bottom in regards to more about the university, but I will say that while Rice is a dream of mine, I have to leave things to God and his will and follow my passion of learning and architecture to find out where it will lead me. I ended up here at Texas and M and thank God I did. It's a great program where the professors are superb and challange the student and I'm glad I came here. The classes are amazing and something to look forward to and will prepare me for that next step in life, grad school. Best of luck to you on your journey.
Rice University School of Architecture :http://arch.rice.edu/modules/indexwin.php
Currently I am attending college at College Station at Texas A and M doing my undergrad degree in the School of Architecture which is also very prestigious and ranked in the top ten in the nation, tieing with Yale University. I am excelling in my studies and am enjoying my classes learning a lot from them, having plenty of laughs, sunsets and sunrises in one day working in studio, but I'm learning and living and following my passion. For the time being my place is here in College Station, but in the future I would like to pursue graduate school at Rice. I want to go to a different university to not settle and conform to one point of view offered here at A and M but rather get other perspectives those of which are offered in the big city of Houston. Maybe my passion will push elsewhere but for now I hope to go to Rice. The experience had there was a unique one and one I will never forget. The campus is inviting and the people are friendly. I know my education and time spent here at A and M is well worth it and a stepping stone to get to graduate school and it will take hard work, but it's something I'm willing to work for.
Why Rice you ask? According to Rodolfo Machado of Machado-Silvetti Associates in Cambridge writes: "We have had similar experiences with a few other schools across the country, and Rice is the only one where we find students to be intellectually developed and professionally useful, which is unfortunately a rare condition these days. " That's saying something. Rice accepts only 200 students each semester divided between graduate and undergraduate to the program. It is needless to say very difficult to get into. It offers an accredited Architecture degree for 5 years and offers a lot of study abroad programs to help create well rounded students. Links are shown at the bottom in regards to more about the university, but I will say that while Rice is a dream of mine, I have to leave things to God and his will and follow my passion of learning and architecture to find out where it will lead me. I ended up here at Texas and M and thank God I did. It's a great program where the professors are superb and challange the student and I'm glad I came here. The classes are amazing and something to look forward to and will prepare me for that next step in life, grad school. Best of luck to you on your journey.
Rice University School of Architecture :http://arch.rice.edu/modules/indexwin.php
No comments:
Post a Comment