Personal Narrative: The One Thing I Would Change About Rice

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The One Thing That I Would change About Rice Rice was my perfect dream school, it had everything that I could ever ask for. Rice is one of the top academic colleges in America, has a beautiful campus, in a great climate, amazing off campus activities in the 4th largest city in the country, amongst the happiest college students, and it even has a chipotle close to campus- the only issue? I had never heard of it in my life. I was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey and my high school sends students to top universities across the country year after year, yet I was the first student to go to Rice in nearly 10 years. Rice is an amazing institution, and I believe that its largest flaw is that not enough people are not aware of this outside of Texas. …show more content…

If you are looking to get a job somewhere else, maybe not so much. At the moment, nearly half of all students at Rice are from Texas, and most of them stay here post-graduation with their careers. This creates somewhat of a cohesive network, where many people share the same contacts. While under this network structure there is increased trust within the group, increased cooperation, and close relationships, it also leads to group think and redundant information. If we could change the structure of the Rice network to a more brokered network, then all of the students and alumni would be connected to a larger amount of people spread throughout the world. A brokered network allows for increased opportunities and more diverse resources. Rice would benefit greatly from expanding its reach from largely just Texas and allowing its graduates and affiliates to have opportunities wherever they

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