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Parents Bree and Adam Pessin and son Jake Pessin ’29

Finding home at Rice: Reflecting on the residential college experience

Parent Bree Pessin and her son Jake ’29 share how the residential college system eased the transition to college and what it feels like to help build the culture, traditions and identity of Rice’s newest community from the ground up.

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