Rice 56- SMU 27!

Last night was our first football game of the year, and it was an amazing one. As you can tell from the blog title, Rice smashed SMU, despite being down 13-0 for a decent piece of the first quarter. The 2nd and 3rd quarters were absolutely fantastic.

Though what I think is even more impressive than the score is the amount of support shown by the Rice student body at the game last night. The student section was easily 3 times the size of the biggest turn-out from last season, with us completely filling the section right next to the MOB where students usually sit (and usually only fill about 2/3 of the way full) as well as the entire next section over. Their cheers were unified, they were loud, and they really wanted to see a Rice victory. We even got a cheer of "MOB! MOB! MOB!" as we were heading down to do the halftime show. It seems the Tulsa game from last year has gotten us back on the good side of a vast majority of the student body, or at least the part of it that goes to football games.

Speaking of the MOB, I love my freshmen. There are 5 freshmen clarinets this year, bringing our total number of clarinets up to 12 this year (15 if you count the DM's and Marjorie who SA's during halftime). They are really fun to be around and have a lot of energy and great senses of humor. Kyle is afraid that I'm trying to take over our section by winning over all the freshmen to my side (well, this is true), but I feel he still has a lot more respect among the older clarinets, and since the freshmen make up about half of our section, we've pretty much got it split 50/50. I hope that at the BBQ on Monday I can meet some more freshmen from other sections like the percussionists and SA's who I don't get to see very often.

Hurray for 3 day weekends that could potentially be 4 day weekends if the hurricane hits Houston.