A light drizzle didn’t stand a chance of dampening spirits inside Rice’s hedges when the university’s incoming Class of 2026 arrived on campus Aug. 14 for their jubilant move-in day celebration.
Or maybe it was all the joyful energy emanating from every corner of the university that kept heavier rain from pouring on the parade of smiling faces scrambling around the school that Sunday morning.
Starting at 7 a.m., cars loaded with dorm room supplies, eager students and more than a few emotional parents lined the roads surrounding each of Rice’s eleven residential colleges, the student dormitories to which incoming students are randomly assigned, one of the unique traditions that forms the bedrock of Rice’s one-of-a-kind undergraduate student experience.
Dozens of Rice students who’d volunteered to lead new students through O-Week - Rice’s time-honored weeklong orientation - awaited the arrival of the newest parliament of Owls. There were 1,210 in this latest flock, the second-largest incoming class in Rice’s history.
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