The Rochester Institute of Technology

Date: Mar 27 2004
Major: School of Information (This Major's Salary over time)
RIt has its problems—but once you get up there in the years its not so bad—it really took me 2 years to feel comfortable with the school—infact I would give a very bad hostile review if I were a sophomore or freshman.. RIT does have -severe- social problems, apalling aesthetics, a fairly disconnected administration, a lot of rich spoiled kids (1st, 2nd year students mostly), poor housing selection,and more homosexuals (particularly in the art fields) than I will admit to being comfortable with. These problems do fade out over the years… Its sort of a useful affect. ther acceptance rate is so high which allows for an influx of ignorant people as well as intellegent people. typically the rich spoiled kids get filtered out along the way as well as the unintelligent people. What is left is typically an intelligent core of hard working students. Basically RIT is a school that will let anyone in but only the worthy survive—the main reason for leaving is transferring due to grades, or flunking out—amazingly it is NOT the crummy atmosphere.

So if you are a sophomore or freshman RIT will seem like a bad school—I hated it myself—really really hated it, but now as I approach graduation is has become a very positive experience—sure it has its problems, but those problems fade as time goes on—think of them as test to see if you can survive.. if you look at a forth year perspecive you see the freshman class as a bunch of idiots—all the talent and intelligence is diluted.. Iit becomes more concentrated toward the top until you really had a good group. All the dorks who think "thinkgeek" shirts are cool are gone (or grown up) the hair bleeching subsides, the counterstrike playing subsides. (by the way a truly apalling numebr of freshmen play counterstrike on campuse MORE than the spend on classes and homework… no wonder the retention is so low).

In the end you can expect a good education.. And most likely a lesson in life. It gets better believe me.