The Rochester Institute of Technology

3rd Year Male -- Class 2012

Education Quality: A+, Surrounding City: B-

If you are a normal student, and are looking for a good school for a decent education, RIT is not the place for you. RIT's education is average, and is just as good as a state school, only the prices are jacked up here.

Once you get here, you realize what a shithole the place is, and how many creepy kids wander around, and you feel like you don't fit in because you were a normal kid in high school, not a super nerd who plays video games all day.

Then, you feel like transferring, because you feel that you are not getting the education you expected, and you realize that your credits do not seem to transfer to another school...period, nor do they transfer to a different major within RIT.

Also, the dorms seem very run down, and their roommate selection process is quite random. Whenever someone has a problem, basically that person is on his/her own to fend for himself/herself. The RA's are basically worthless, and are just here for the money, not to solve problems on the floor. Also, most of the facilities, after you have been here for a few weeks, seems to be quite filthy because students ruin things, and nobody cleans things up.

NTID is one of the worst things that have happened to RIT, if you are a hearing student. Ellingson is one of the worst dorms to live in (you must share one bathroom with 6 people, and the showers are 1/2 the size of any other dorm building at RIT, and you must listen to deaf students yelling at all hours of the night. Deaf students seem rather pushy, and ignorant. They tend to ruin things, including other people's clothing at their laundry facilities.

Additionally, if you like a place to study that's nice and quiet, and are thinking about signing up for Intensified Study, think again. This is a very loud floor, and if you complain about people being too loud on the floor, the RA basically ignores you because it isn't her problem, it's yours.

The quarter system is also a bad way to handle a college. Students at RIT have more class time per week, go to school 5 weeks longer than most other schools, have less break than most other schools, and graduate later than mnost other schools.

Financially, we all know that students do not have a lot of money, for the most part. RIT does not support this fact. The tuition increase per year is about $3-5,000, the food prices currently are close to $4,000 per year, and is required for all first-year students who reside on campus, and RIT does not give decent financial aid to normal middle-class students who need it, compared to other schools.

The average student at RIT is rather loud and obnoxious, has not learned manners, is very immature (worse than elementary school kids), rude to others, plays video games during every second of free time, watches anime, and is socially illiterate.

Also, if you think that you will have time to do sports or join activities, you won't. With the quarter system that RIT offers, there is not much of a chance for free time outside of classes and homework. At first (the first couple of weeks of classes), it seems like you will, but all of a sudden, the work just piles on like it will never end.Overall, I am not impressed with RIT at all. I haven't found anything positive about my experience after being here a few years, and my college life has been miserable because of my decision to go to RIT. I was lied to often, both about the school and about my major, and wish that I could transfer, but realize that I would have wasted a lot of time and money due to the fact that none of my credits will ever transfer to any other school in America. I have had several problems dealing wth others here, just because I want to learn, get a good education, and be a normal college student, so if these are your goals (which are the goals of most college students), RIT is not the place for you. Lastly, for art students, if you were ever told that it is easy to get a job out of RIT or that you will have an internship or co-op, you were majorly lied to. I have friends who have gone to state schools who can get better jobs than me and can get internships for free (because it's built into their program, but not into ours), a dean's list achiever at RIT...how pathetic is that?

1st Year Female -- Class 2010

Innovation: B+, Education Quality: F

Hey all. I posted on this site just about around a year ago. I went to RIT and have since transferred. Im sorry, but socially, my life has since blossomed alot more and I dont regret it one bit. I felt way too sheltered at RIT and just coudnt take it, i guess I just didnt fit it. I always wanted to go out and do stuff and I would have to really pressure people to come with me. I guess Counterstrike was more important. Anyhow, not to make this too long I have two things to share. 1). This website is funny and, surprisingly, hits the target quite well. it is http://mbsrules.com/RIT.htm. Its a song somebody made about the school lifestyle, check it out. 2). Me and my friends that I made would go out and have fires all the time at this certain secret spot all the time when the weather was nice enough. The spot is behind gracies but no one can see it at night so you dont have to worry about being caught. (considering the school wont let you even have a microwave in your dorm, they prolly wouldnt look kindly to people having bon fires.) Anyhow, I am being dead serious about this. Go to the corner store buy some hotdogs and go have a fire at this place, maybe even throw a few back while there, I certainly did. It is hard for me to accurately describe how to get there but start at gracies looking east, walk past c lot and hang a right onto whatever road that is. Follow it for a short distance until you get to a clearing on your right. go into that clearing, (for some reasong i remember big rocks near where you should go). go up the clearing until you get to the part where it is no longer a clearing but turns to brush. find a way down into the ravine you should see and, if you look around, dont venture too far, you should see a stack of bricks for a fire pit and some cinder blocks to sit on. Believe me. This fire pit is def. my best memory of RIT and I wish I had thrown a party there. If you are feeling down about the place, this will certain spark some spiRIT. Good luck and god bless.

1st Year Male -- Class 2009

Campus Maintenance: A+, Surrounding City: D+