Tips for Better Time Management Skills
Ever find yourself waiting until the last minute to finish an assignment that you had 4 months to do? Yeah, me neither. You know why? Because my time management skills are the bomb.com. Here are some...
View ArticleWellness Classes Simplified
During your undergraduate career at RIT, unless you are a varsity athlete, you will be required to complete two wellness courses. RIT's policy is that students participating in the institute's...
View ArticleGraduating and final decisions
I am graduating this December. Boy that’s weird to say...well in this case write. I can’t believe how much time has flown. It may sound cliche but the fact that three years of college are just gone is...
View ArticleRIT Bucket List (On-campus)
I remember when I came to RIT as a freshman and feeling a bit overwhelmed by the number of activities that take place on campus. With approximately 300 clubs and numerous other departments on campus,...
View ArticleAni-Jam Fall 2017
This weekend, I participated in RIT's School of Film and Animation's annual Ani-Jam competition. The competition is a 24-hour animated short film contest where teams of up to 5 people stay up all...
View ArticleEarly Decision: Why Should You Apply?
The Early Decision deadline, November 15, is approaching and you might be wondering “What is Early Decision? Why should I apply for that instead of Regular Decision?” If you’re asking yourself those...
View ArticleTips for International Students 1
What’s up everyone? I'm back! As you know from my earlier blog post I am attending RIT as an international student. It's been fun living in America but it can be a challenge to adapt. As an...
View ArticleCelebrate the festival of lights - Diwali
Diwali or Deepavali, the festival of lights, is India's biggest and most important festival of the year. This festival is as important to Indians as the Christmas holiday is to Christians. The...
View ArticleFall Bucket-List
Fall is by far my favorite season of the year. Being a local Rochesterian, I love taking friends from RIT to discover some of my favorite things in fall. Here is my fall bucket list: Go Apple...
View ArticleGame Developer to Scientist: The Major Change Process
Depending on the university, between 50 and 70 percent of college students change their major at least once. It's one of the most important decisions people will make in their lifetime, and many...
View Article19th Annual Animation Show of Shows
This Thursday, November 9th, the 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows is coming to campus! Not many people outside of the School of Film and Animation are aware that this fun, traveling, annual...
View ArticleRIT: Winter Survival Skills
In honor of the first snow of this academic year, which happened on Thursday, November 9th, I felt it was appropriate to talk about the weather at RIT, and how to be best prepared for it. You see, I’m...
View ArticleLearning American Sign Language
One of my favorite features about RIT is that we share a campus with another college! The Rochester Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute of the Deaf have shared a campus since...
View ArticleGetting Ready for the Real-World
I'm in my final year of college. Last night, I applied for graduation... it's actually starting to feel real now. So, what next? How is RIT preparing me to graduate? Do I have any advice for those...
View ArticleSurvival Guide: Rochester Winters
As I’m looking outside at the fluffy flakes of ice, which somehow get inside of your boots even when you constrict your ankle circulation, I thought about my first experience with winter on campus. As...
View ArticleRochester Bucket List
Hello again! This is a follow up to one of my blogs where I wrote an RIT Bucket List of on-campus activities. This week, I am writing a bucket list of off-campus activities. Without further ado,...
View ArticleIndustrial Design T-Minus 151
Last Saturday, I went to the T-Minus 151 event, which is an intense one-week design project held by RIT Industrial Design. It was interesting and a lot of students were really excited about it. The...
View ArticleSwitching Majors: Career Counseling
How's it going, everyone? It's Wystan again. This time, I would like to talk about how you can switch your major at RIT. I used to be in the Applied Statistics and Actuarial Science program, but now I...
View ArticleWhy Co-op experience is a must!
“I’m going on co-op!” - is such a common phrase on campus because of our career focus. For my program though, the phrase was not uttered too much. Not because we couldn’t find co-ops but the School...
View ArticleTo-Do Lists and Planners: Staying Organized and Managing Your Tasks
Does it ever stress you out when you think about how many tasks you have to do in a day? How about the amount of tasks you need to accomplish over the course of the week? Unfortunately, I cannot...
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