Don't bring a car until at least second semester of freshman year.
Not very many students have cars their freshman year. So, if you are the token freshman who has a car, people will be bugging you night and day for rides to Target, to Specs, to CVS, to dinner, to the airport...you get the point. While it is a way to guarantee that you will have friends to go out to eat with when the serveries are closed for dinner on Saturday nights, it will get old fast.
However, eventually the freshmen who don't have cars will get to know the upperclassmen, who are more likely to have cars, and they can start alternating who they ask for rides. That will happen sometime during first semester, which is why it is safe to bring your car second semester.
On top of all of this, parking at Rice is ridiculously expensive and where you'll have to park is extremely far away from all of the dorms. You'll be wishing you had a car to drive you to your car in West Lot.
The freedom that a car allows you is amazing, but unless you can afford the pricey parking pass and are the kind of person who can say "no", don't bring a car until at least your second semester of school.
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