The Rochester Institute of Technology

Date: Mar 24 2004
Major: Electrical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
Lets face it. You're paying for a Volvo, and you're getting a 1980 Toyota. These people think that RIT has a great reputation, and that RIT is basically the best thing ever. WRONG! Reputation? I'm here only because I was turned down by real universities (MIT, Caltech and Cornell). These people think that their programs are the best. WRONG! My friends in England are studying stuff which is much, much more demanding, and any first year student there could destroy (intellectually speaking) any dork here. The funniest thing is that some kids here think that they are "gifted" (maybe too much "A Beautiful Mind" ??). Honestly, I wish RIT was more selective for admissions. Its amazing (and sickening) to see the number of kids here who only care about getting A's…never mind if you learned the material or not. Like a professor of mine said: "If RIT did not award partial credit… the graduation ceremony would take place inside a phone booth".

Ok, the campus is amazingly ugly, but they are trying to make it nicer. The funny thing is that, although the complain about their 30% attrition rate, they raised school fees and tuition by 5% this year (2003-2004).

Finally, I'd like to say that I hate every single dork here. They only care about their grades, and they want to do as much extracurricular activities as possible, for the only reason of enlarging their resumes (compensation for something??). They don't care about learning, they just want to get good grades and graduate.