The majority of my mother's extended family lives in Texas, so I have travelled to Texas many times and have become familiar with its people and culture. When it came time for me to begin looking at colleges, I researched schools in Texas and concluded Rice would be worth a visit, due to its small size, caliber of engineering program, and beautiful campus. I first visited campus last year, went on a tour, and attended the information session. It was there I learned about the Residential College System, and realized Rice would be for me. It promotes the exposure to an array of backgrounds and diversity, a concept that would not occur to this extent at any other school I have looked at. Having people of all interests, from those who study philosophy