Getting Involved at RIT
As we near the end of the second week of classes of fall semester many first year students are being to settle into living at RIT. As the campus maps are put away and the lanyards make their way off...
View ArticlePeter Ryan, Jr.: About Me
Hello! My name is Peter Ryan, Jr. and I am a fourth year Computing Security Major in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I am...
View ArticleOH HI I'm Kevin.
Hey everybody! My name’s Kevin Mead, and I’m one of the co-captains of the admissions office's social media team! I hail from a small town outside of Annapolis, Maryland. I’m a third-year student in...
View ArticleWho the Heck is Lizz?
Hey everyone! It's a new school year so I am going to introduce myself again.I am Lizz, a fourth year visual media student from Syracuse, NY. I originally transferred from Utah State University but...
View ArticleHype for Hockey
"E TO THE X DX DY Secant Cosine Tangent Sine 3.14159 PI I times 3 LETS GO LETS GO RIT” -RIT Corner Crew Chant Oh hockey season, how I have missed you! Students are starting to pick up their season...
View ArticleHome Sweet Home?
If you meet a student three weeks into their freshman year, either here at RIT or any other college, and they tell you they don’t miss home, they are either lying or are one in a million. Three weeks...
View ArticleHowdy Y'all, I'm Andrea!
Hello everyone! My name is Andrea Shaver and I am a second-year graphic design major. Home is north of Dallas, Texas in a suburb called Frisco. I am super excited to be working as an ambassador for...
View ArticleAbout Me: Simran Makker
Hi, my name is Simran Makker, and I'm an admissions student Ambassador. I am currently a second year Marketing and Advertising Photography major. I was born in India and lived there for 8 years. I...
View ArticleMud Tug 2014
Its time to get dirty! Every September for 19 years the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity hosts one of the most popular events at RIT called Mud Tug. The event happens behind...
View ArticleNathan J. Lichtenstein: An Autobiographical Retrospective
Hi folks, I’m Nathan J. Lichtenstein. Before you ask, I have no relation to the country or the pop artist, but I am the guy with the license plate that reads LCTNSTN. I was born and raised in the...
View ArticleStudent Voices Heard Through Pawprints
Just over a week ago RIT’s Student Government launched a new service called Pawprints. Pawprints is a petitions website similar to We The People (petitions.whitehouse.gov). The idea is that the...
View ArticleFall Career Fair 2014 Prep
Since my first year I've always enjoyed going to career fairs at RIT. Finding a co-op or full-time job is generally the main reason people attend but there are many other reasons such as networking...
View ArticleAbout Becky Drexler
Hi! My name is Becky Drexler. I am a second year here at RIT. This fall I made the switch from Civil Engineering Technology to New Media Design (so similar, right? ). I am from Avon, New York, which...
View ArticleStep one: Picking out colleges for YOU
So the first (and sometimes the hardest) step of the college decision process is visiting the schools you are interested in. I remember my mom started this process in tenth grade for me, but don't...
View ArticleHi, I'm Joan!
I'm excited to finally start my first blog post! Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm a fourth year journalism student with a legal studies minor and I'm from Niagara Falls, New York. I love...
View ArticleThe Great Canadian Animation Tour
Hey guys! I spent last weekend at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in, you guessed it, Ottwawa, Canada. HOWEVER, the road to Ottawa was a treachourous one. Our tale begins at 11am last...
View ArticleNo typical day at RIT
Time is a precious resource while at college. There are only so many hours in a day, so many days in a week, and so many weeks in a semester. With the semester being half over, I though to myself,...
View ArticleFood for Thought
A lot of people tend to get into a rut of ordering the same food over and over again, and then eventually becoming tired of it. I know, it happens to me a lot! I’ve been looking for different food...
View ArticleOneSpirRIT: The Global Hockey Festival
It’s been just a few days since the first annual OneSpiRIT Global Hockey Festival, and the electricity is still in the air. For those of you who don’t know what OneSpiRIT is or where it came from,...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship Scholars Program
During my first year at RIT, I heard about the entrepreneurship scholars program. It is offered through the Simone center at RIT. The program entails a series of different business classes, which...
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