The Rochester Institute of Technology
“The trick to having fun at RIT isBrightComputer Science
The trick to having fun at RIT is to find your people and to find your place. If you are content playing counter strike with the nerds on your floor, you can do that. If you want to go drinking in some box/apartment complex, you can do that. If you want to join a frat and be a machoman dork, go ahead. If you want more of a soap opera lifestyle, join a special interest house like photo house.
And if none of that appeals to you, start a renegade kickball society.
As far as the whole learning thing is concerned, I'm satisfied. There exists an online professor evaluation system so you know in advance what professor to get.
In computer science, you leave knowing what you need to know to get the job done.
And you can customize your education, with a choice of liberal arts concentrations and non-CS concentrations. The weather is sour though. I keep telling myself that it builds character.
view full review→Apr 14 2002
2nd Year Male -- Class 2005
Faculty Accessibility: A, University Resource Use/ spending: D
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“I am a freshman here at RIT andBrightComputer Science
I am a freshman here at RIT and just like everyone else here, I Hate it. I noticed that there were 10 reviews labeled bad by the reviewers at this web page and only one rated good. Welp now there are 11.
Supposedly college is the best time of ones life. Well not at RIT. Now i can only speak of the Computer Science Curriculum but, it is the worst designed system in the world. For example: if you don't electronically submit your code to a CS project at a certian time you fail the whole course. If you have one little bug in your code, or your output does not match theirs to the letter, you fail the course.
This seems more of a lesson in conformity than of one in Computer Science. Right now I can feel my creativity and imagination draining out of my life.
RIT's one purpose is to get money from your parents. Once you are in, they don't give a shit about you at all. You are documented by your social security number and thats it. They also screwed me by not accepting my AP credits. I got a 4 on AP Calculus, a 4 on AP Statistics, a 4 on AP Comp Sci A, and a 5 on AP Comp Sci AB. Yet here I am, learning everything I already know at a much slower pace.It makes me want to drop college totally. But I want that little piece of paper that costs 125,000 dollars.
The campus is fucking ugly. You would think that it doesnt affect you much, but seeing bricks all the time is annoying as hell. Plus the stupid designers that made the school created a wind tunnel to keep us even cooler in those 15 degree windy days.
Finally there is very little social Life. Having a dry campus accomplishes nothing. RIT student life tries to create new ways to entertain us, yet they all end up RITarted and boring.
I wish I had known of this webpage when i was ooking for colleges because i would never have come here.
to here me rant more..... got to my anti-RIT pagehttp://ritsux.freewebspace.com/index.html
view full review→Apr 10 2002
1st Year Male -- Class 2006
Perceived Campus Safety: B+, Education Quality: F
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“STAY AWAY. This place is engineered to breakBrightComputer Science
STAY AWAY. This place is engineered to break you as a person. The administration tries to screw you over every opportunity you have. I hate this place with a violent passion. I hope it sinks into the swamp that it was built upon. Here's an example: The housing lottery, current freshman get priority over all upperclassmen, and the apartments they said were reserved for upperclassmen have been given away. 160 people got housing, that leaves 2000 in the lottery on the waiting list. This place is the fifth circle of hell.
view full review→Apr 06 2002
1st Year Male -- Class 2005
Education Quality: B-, Innovation: F
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