Case Western is a small, private, research-focused school with about 5,000 undergrads, so it can weave research into nearly everyone’s experience. UH, by contrast, is a large public R1 with over 38,000 undergrads—its scale and mission are very different.
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I will say that I was a student in The Honors College, and we did get research opportunities as undergrads, but it was literally a graduation requirement, so that had a lot to do with it. It was mostly social science and liberal arts subjects. I did one in political science with the great Professor Richard Murray. I also did one in economics with a game theory professor whose name I no longer remember. His first name was Nicholas.
Just going to gently put this out there:
See my post on the Satellite.
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UH definitely needed a new video board to at least keep up with the conference.
Good for USF. Too bad UH doesn’t have any room to do this.
https://x.com/USouthFlorida/status/1965455257909043591
The neighborhood holds us back. Plain and simple.
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Never a good look to tell someone that their actual lived experience is a lie.
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Except that he explained himself, and confirmed later in the string that he wasn’t forced by his parents.
Perhaps there are people out there that have been, but thus far, no one on this board has come forward to say that they personally were forced by their parents to commute more than 50 mi.
Awesome. That’s has to be the largest entering class in the conference.
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Isn’t it a matter of time bc the 3rd is the only thing left to develop.
Of course nobody on this board has come forward, there are probably less than 100 consistently active users and we all repeat the same stories of our experiences.
I was 100% forced to during undergrad. Again, I’m talking from a middle eastern perspective. For us, a lot of the money that WOULD be used towards housing on campus would be used towards other things, like fun time, items, cars, or NECESSITIES. A campus dorm is tiny or temporary, a car lasts a while.
However, it is best for me to commute RIGHT NOW, even if I’m driving earlier in the morning and coming back much later at night. 70-80 miles on average round trip. I aid how I can with taking care of my family and I get more money to go skydiving.
I’m also talking, as probably one of the only people on this board with boots on the ground, on other students in the position where they’re forced to commute for similar, cultural reasons.
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Why is being “forced” to commute by parents over 50 miles such a sticking point? The fact is that many people do it for many different reasons, period. It’s not isolated. And that’s not counting all the people that also commute 20-30 miles each day everyday. It’s s fact of life for a big chunk of UH students to commute to school, period.
I was one of those commuters, and guess what? I spent a big chunk of my time at school. Just a different way of developing a relationship with the school.
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You must be new here.
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Aren’t we forgetting that downtown is gonna be great after the World Cup improvements and it’s just a short light rail away from UH .
Tulane piggy backs off the New Orleans area with the French qtr etc so why aren’t we counting a great downtown by 2026?
They are closing 7 blocks permanently which can be our 6th street
Our students will have a great downtown to go to
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https://old.reddit.com/r/UniversityOfHouston/comments/1n7vo7n/cage_rage/
A bit of a thread on how commuters already feel iced out.
TOP25, I do agree with those blocks in Downtown, heck I see a lot of students head out to Washington Avenue and such. However, something much closer to campus could be much more preferred.
Unless the metro takes them there, or similar to the drunk trolley at the UofA, something that runs late night to downtown destinations.
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It isn’t a big deal to me. But I’m guessing it’s pretty RARE.
And given that, I’m hardly going to insist that our university orient our policies to revolve around that tiny percentage.
Personally, it’s bizarre that any parents would force their kids to commute to ONE school that far away when there are other schools with shorter drives available.
As I pointed out, Galveston kids can go to UH Clear Lake and Bay City kids can go to what used to be called UH-Victoria. The idea that they HAVE to commute over 50 mi. to get an education is simply false.
And if their parents force them to choose that far off school over any other, and force them to drive there well, then I’ll say this: the tiny percentage of UH students for which that may be true for not and should not drive the train.
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Yes, they can go to UHCL or TAMU-V, but there’s a lot of weight from a main campus degree vs the formers. Again, the parents in this case hold UH Main in high regard.
When it comes to it, these students prepare for this kind of commute by either packing their classes into one or two days a week, or taking them online/hybrid instead.