The Rochester Institute of Technology

This school is challenging, there is no doubt about that. Unfortunately that doesn't make much of a difference. The positive is that as an undergrad you are required to take a co-op (I received my undergrad elsewhere, I am working on my Masters). Co-ops give you the industry experience you need to get a job when you graduate. If you are Masters student though, and haven't had any industry experience, don't expect RIT to help you get it. I am required, because of my lack of experience, to get a co-op in order to graduate but I am having an impossible time. You can be sure that if I went to Berkeley or Stanford I would find employment, but no one has heard of RIT so I am stuck.

RIT aesthetically is probably the ugliest campus I have ever seen. It's not dirty or dilapidated, it's just ugly. When people call it "brick city" they are being totally serious. The college caters to tech majors, and those people aren't exactly fighting for more trees on campus. They spend most of their time in front of their computers or gaming. RIT is located in Rochester, which must be one of the most uneventful cities in the east. There is really nothing off campus worth going off-campus for. There are bars, a few restaurants on Jefferson Ave, a small mall and that's about it. You'll learn which areas of Rochester to avoid, as some are notorious for high crime. They're not near the college though, thankfully. There are cameras all over the campus, and it's pretty well lighted. You can feel safe if you are there in the evening unless you have to park in the furthest parking lots. Those are a bit creepy.

1st Year Female -- Class 2009

Useful Schoolwork: A-, Campus Aesthetics: F

To be honest, the first 2 or 3 weeks of school I absolutely hated it. RIT has defintiely grown on me, and i hear that it only get's better.

Social life--is better than i anticipated. There is ALWAYS something to do weather you party or not.

Academics--very very very difficult. I am a pretty smart person but i was totally taken back when i came here. I didnt excpect RIT to be easy but i didnt expect it to be this hard.

Food--the food is soooo good...freshman 15!!!
Dorms--the dorms are pretty average living.The best thing about RIT is the campus. It has everything you could ever want and everything is basically brand new. The campus is my favorite thing about the school

1st Year Female -- Class 2016

Education Quality: A+, Individual Value: B-

Pretty much what everyone said here is true. rit is a very unusual place. it messes with your mind on so many levels i can't even begin to describe it. i'll have to write a book when i'm out of here. after a few months of being here, i felt beaten down emotionally and spiritually. after 5 years of this place, i feel pretty much the same. you never get used to it. this has got to be one of the most depressing and twisted place on the face of the planet. Aside from all the homosexuality and exrtreme socialism pushed down your throat every day, all the "deaf superiority" complexes held by some kids, etc etc, this place just breaks your spirit. one of my friends got into drugs and became a satanist, running away to live in a trailer in the mountains of Pennsylvania with a male and female lover. while most of us don't go that far, we usually become so extremely depressed and irritable because of the weather and... OK FINE. the girls. the ratio is about 8 desperate, horny, toolbox guys to 1 fat deaf girl with a goatee. i kid you not. i've been to RIT parties where girls will do several guys in one day and think nothing of it. it's disgusting and immoral and it sickens me to no end. nobody seems to mind or care. i will say, though, most of the guys here have given up or never tried in the first place. THIS SCHOOL EVEN HAS ITS OWN RAP SONG about how #*$)ed up it is!!

I cannot wait for this spring. I am going to get my own place in a quiet neighborhood and just read books and write memoirs for a year. Then i'll try to readjust to the real world.On a positive note, the administration is full of pretty sharp people. While even they have their required Safe Zone (means they have to give gay/les/bi/transgendered kids special treatment), most of them are on the ball. i was involved in a business project in the business dept. and got to know a lot of the head administration really well and realized that most of them actually care about the students and what we think. they're actually trying hard as of late to ask us what we think. it may take a while for kids to catch on that all they have to do is speak up and they'll be heard.

5th Year Male -- Class 2005

Campus Maintenance: A+, Social Life: F