It may be making a million dollars before you're thirty. The most significant achievements, obviously, are not necessarily the conventional measures of success but rather the ones that accord with your own standards of excellence. These are standards, one hopes, that you have adopted in part thanks to your Rice education. These are standards, one hopes, that you have adopted in part thanks to your Rice education. Ask yourself what your standards of excellence are.
Crowds are fickle.
And crowds are notoriously poor judges of excellence. As Aristotle in his Ethics points out, it is appropriate to be honored for those things for which you justly deserve honor. This way we can get a sense of the interest on campus. The purpose of this group is to promote, improve, and develop interest in Geographic Information Systems among members of the Rice community. The RUSP program is designed for juniors or seniors from any department who are considering graduate school and academic careers.