It’s still going to be high heat and humidity during the school year. September, October, April, May are all typically very hot and humid months in Houston. Even March and November can be quite hot. My mom’s family is from Houston and we visited often. I remember sweltering thanksgivings and Easters where people got heat stroke. It’s not just the summer. |
Funny, all you have to do is Google. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/civil-rights/protests/2024/04/24/484557/rice-students-nationwide-pro-palestinian-protests-encampment/ |
Well, this article seems to back this:https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2024/04/29/exclusive-employers-are-souring-on-ivy-league-grads-while-these-20-new-ivies-ascend/?sh=1154bff25585&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1zo-N-Srn8tcaL1jH1ZuUviGwzqFhVB7faERNh3o7aNnJ7FSoPw40TcUM_aem_ATapdsdXM-s0MwQb55b2R3WcgUoIu52GXB509wYOXc6da6qfXq8UQkr503RK30RpweNNcFnMWr--gY2ktyalCXNt |
All three colleges would provide everything top colleges can provide, with some minor differences due to student's own, friends, coaches, romantic partners and teachers's personalities, they'll have more exposure too. Let them pick whichever they feel best going to as long as y'all can afford it. |
Thankfully, Columbia's leaders have realized the encampment needs to go. |
Ummm...no. This is inaccurate. It is crazy hot starting May till August. Then it starts switching between cool and humid. Oct to March is beautiful. Coincidentally much of the academic year. |
Did you read the article? It refers to a handful of people on a lawn from 10 am to 10 pm having a desultory conversation amongst themselves. Not exactly the revolution. I have a kid at Rice. He said it's about 8 students who hang out in a shady spot. The other 8500 students have been wrapping up exams and moving out. |
Who cares whether it's 50 protesters at Rice vs a few hundred at Columbia? Both are large schools and NYC is a far more interesting place to live and study than Houston. |
People may not like Columbia - but it's in NYC. |
It pretty much is. At my office, for recruitment, we don’t differentiate between Columbia and the other top ivies. And the kids are no different. Cannot tell them apart |
Keep trying. Whether you like it or not, Columbia has gone down in the prestige scale in the recent years. And STEM recruiters would definitely not differentiate between (if not prefer because of better attitudes) a Rice graduate than Columbia. |
I'm just curious what brings you so much hate on Columbia. |
No, the PP above had it right. It is not ever “cool” in Houston in September or April. You clearly haven’t spent much time there. -Texan. |
+1. I have been to Houston multiple times in March (I have an annual conference I attend there) where it’s been in the 80s-90s. |
no hate on Columbia. Infact if econ and finance, definitely choose Columbia over Rice. But the distinction or the superiority you claim in all scenarios of Columbia over Rice is no longer accurate. The lines have been blurred esp. with regards to STEM majors and student quality of life esp. in undergrad. |