SALLYPORT UNDERGRADUATE LIFE
Residential Colleges, but Make Them Tiny
Katherine Wu creates campus Microworlds.
WHEN KATHERINE WU ’23 moved away from her hometown of San Francisco, she found a new home in McMurtry College. “I’ve always loved the residential college system, the way that it welcomes and builds a community for you,” says Wu. To mark the halfway point of her college experience, Wu wanted to find a way to capture Rice and carry those memories with her. Inspired by Benny Productions’ Microworlds, which the company describes as little chunks of landscapes, based on biomes, themes, movie scenes or famous places, Wu created tiny images of the residential colleges. “As new students come in and old students leave, I hope that they can take a bit of Rice with them wherever they go, to remind them they’ll always have a home here.” — EMMA KORSMO ’24
1 | BAKER COLLEGE
2 | WILL RICE COLLEGE
3 | HANSZEN COLLEGE
4 | WIESS COLLEGE
5 | JONES COLLEGE
6 | BROWN COLLEGE
7 | LOVETT COLLEGE
8 | SID RICHARDSON COLLEGE
9 | MARTEL COLLEGE
10 | McMURTRY COLLEGE
11 | DUNCAN COLLEGE
P H O T O IL LU S T R AT IO N S B Y K AT HER INE W U
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