Located on the ground floor of Herring Hall, the DMC is a center of hardware, software, and staff that can help with digital media: audio/visual recording, photo/film editing, poster creation/printing, and much, much more.
Homepage of Rice University's information technology group. Includes pages explaining how to run Rice-licensed software (such as MatLab) in the cloud on your personal machine (for Windows and for Mac and Linux), how to create a vanity e-mail address linking to your original Rice e-mail account, and how to establish a remote connection to the Rice network (e.g., via SSH or VPN).
A direct link to the page where you set up your Rice e-mail account. After the initial setup you can also use the site to create a limited number of "vanity" e-mail addresses for your account.
Rice off-campus housing, dining, and entertainment guide. The homepage offers a very neat "Find a place to live" widget as well as links to helpful housing hints.
A third-party professional site. The Property Directory can be a useful apartment search tool; you will need to know the zip codes of the areas in which you are interested. A map of Houston overlayed with zip codes can be found at ZipCode.net.
Rice University offers students a heavily subsidized Q card (public transportation card), available at the Cashier's Office on the ground floor of the Allen Center (building 2). Visit the Rice Program Council's Metro for Graduate Students page for more details.
A third-party car-sharing system that allows members to sign out cars on a per-hour basis. There two Zipcar locations on Rice's campus: one just inside Entrance 3 (by the intersection of Main & Cambridge), and one in the parking loop by the Mudd building. If you decide to join Zipcar, join using the Rice-specific registration. (Even if you already have a Zipcar account, Zipcar must identify you as a Rice University affiliate before you can use the Zipcars on campus.)