The Rochester Institute of Technology

This one is for all those soon to be graduating high school seniors. It was only a short while ago when I was in your position, reading anything and everything I could about RIT and colleges in general. I used this website a lot and found most of the negative comments to be really amusing. "Could RIT really be that bad?" I often wondered to myself. Well after surviving two years there I can safely say yes.

THE SOCIAL LIFE: Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. The Frats are a joke. Thankfully the U of R is nearby and their Frats are real good at throwing parties. Most people at RIT keep to themselves. This place doesn't even have a football team, although the hockey team is good. There is very little sense of comraderie. The guy to girl ratio is awful and it has a big effect on the psyche of people attending the school. The parties suck because they are all big sausage fests. The Frats (that's you Triangle!) charge admission to their parties but then don't serve alcohol because it is a dry campus. Basically, if you are not into computer games, apparently World of Warcraft is God at this campus, then you are pretty much the odd man or woman out.

Classes: I transferred majors a couple times. My advice, If you are not sure what you want to major in start in the Explorer's program. I tried computer science and was in one of those learning group things where they have like 16 of the same students take all their courses together for the first year. Unfortunatley, the comp science students were introverted and snooty. Despite good efforts, I befriended one and the rest bowed down to World of Warcraft and other weird computer adventures.

**LISTEN CLOSE**
DO NOT go to this school if you are looking at anything in the liberal arts college.
Those classes are an extreme waste of time and money.
After learning the exact same thing in three classes I learned what a scam the communications program is.

Professors: Some are good. Some are awful. I had 3 that could not communicate effectively with me in the English language. In one of those courses, it was so frustrating I dropped it. I'm not afraid to give names. Felea, Lee, Kwon, Johnson, and Niemi cannot teach, I know from experience. Others are harsh, as in they give F's a lot, Cos and Johnson.

CO-OPS: For most majors this school requires you to co-op for as long as 5 quarters. In Advertising and Public Relations you need to co-op for two quarters. It is a real pain to land a co-op in this field. No one wants to pay you and the jobs are tedious. Thats is why liberal arts majors are a joke, employers frown upon them. I know this when I went to RIT's career fair and recieved blank stares from employers who did not seem to be hiring anyone in my field at all. Enough said.

**Quarter System Advice**
RIT goes against logic by having a retarded quarter system. It speeds things up and your breaks will never coincide, which is a BIG DEAL, with your friends who were smart enough to go to SUNY schools or any other colleges. This means you wont be partying when they are and when your ready to let loose they can't. Because all your credits will be based on the quarter system, rather than the semester system, it is a real pain to transfer out of RIT once you have started there. So if you do commit to RIT, you better be in for the long haul.

WEATHER: It sucks so bad in the winter. You will freeze your nuts off during Winter quarter. I commutted and the walk from the parking lots to classes is like the Bataan death march. Its far, its uphill, with wind blowing hard downhill and sideways. Cloudy, with little sun. Lots of Snow. The tour guides will lie to you and say Rochester is pleasant. It is from May to Oct, pretty much when you are not going to be there, but after that prepare for anything.

**RIT is dead on the weekends**
**If you do not have a car when you come to campus, make friends quickly with someone who does**
***RIT is a weird place, and not in a good way. It is not the normal college experience that most people expect to have. Its straight academics and hardly any play. Sorry, computer games don't count. Straight academics for four straight years will break most poeple unless you one of the super weird kids who attend this school. Long hair and long facial hair. You'll spot them in an instant. The majority of girls are ugly.***

DEAF CULTURE: There are a lot of Deaf people on campus because of NTID. They share in all the classes of the regular students, and if they are in your class you will be seeing an interpreter. They will constantly be waving their fingers and hands and you will notice this out of the corner of your eye when you are really just trying to pay attention in class. It is annoying. If you see a cute girl on campus there is a catch, she is deaf. Haha.

Dorms: Clean, Newer. Where people confine themselves to their computers for hours on end.

THIS SCHOOL IS EXPENSIVE!!! I paid my own way but there are plenty of privelaged people who go here and don't seem to give a shit about going here and learning nothing because Mommy and Daddy are footing the bill. This school likes to leave large gaps, thousands of dollars in your financial aid package that you just magically have to come up with. Expect to reach into and deplete your college savings or else expect to take out loans if you want to come here. For the rest of us, there a greener pastures, ones that will not leave us tens of thousands of dollars in debt after we leave with a worthless degree from RIT (ignore this if you have your master's or a degree in engineering of computers). This college seems ok from the outside, even when you come by for a visit. But when you combine all the aforementioned truths about RIT you will soon realize what a crock of shit this so called great school is. Thankfully, I got out after two years, so I can save the other two years of my life from the desparing, broken hearted feel of RIT. **Please do not take lightly this review. It is the dead honest truth. I highly advise that you not attend this school. If you are the type who doesn't like to make new friends or you know you're just a weird ass, then go here. Otherwise, save your time, money, and go somewhere you can make friends, meet a few decent ladies, but also get a well rounded education.**

2nd Year Male -- Class 2007

Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Individual Value: F

I received an associates degree from a community college before attending this school, for less than the cost of 1 semester of this school. I learned more, and had a better understanding of material in 1 week of community college then I did in my 4 years here.

The only saving grace to RIT is the co-op program, which landed me a job.The diploma's look as though a 3 year old learning Word for the first time made them. Again, community college associates degree diploma looks professional, RIT sucks!

4th Year Male -- Class 2017

Perceived Campus Safety: A, Education Quality: F

The Rochester Institute of Technology is an absolutely horrible institution. All of the teaching staff are very over-paid. The staff don’t care about the students, just about how much they can get paid. The tuition goes up 5-15% every year at the same time the education quality decreases by 25% each year. I grind my teeth every morning when I get to school and walk by all the gold trimmed SUVs with faculty parking passes on them. I then get really upset when I walk into one of the science or computer labs and have to work with broken, worn out, or completely outdated equipment. To summarize, if you’re a student looking for an education or a real college experience, STAY AWAY FROM RIT. If you’re looking for a job that gets you a huge paycheck and excellent benefits and requires no knowledge or skills, then apply at RIT. From what I’ve experienced, RIT will hire anyone. Are you a high school dropout? No problem, work for RIT’s campus safety. High School graduate? Be a professor starting at 85,000 a year. Perspective student? KEEP AWAY FROM RIT.

3rd Year Male -- Class 2008