DSettahr
to wound the autumnal city.
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The dorm rooms are pretty small, but they are very well furnished, and also kept pretty clean. Housing is garunteed for your first year, and then you have to enter a lottery for an apartment. If you get an on-campus apartment, you can keep it for as long as you want as long as you occupy it. Every fall there is always a crunch because they have more people than they have room for, but they dont turn anyone away, and things get better within a couple of months as people start to find apartments off campus. They really need to build more apartments and dorms, which they have plans for, but I dont think construction is scheduled to begin for another year or so.
The network is also worth mentioning. Dual OC3, with a few other lower-bandwidth pipes mixed in for good measure, and it is extremely fast.
The thing bout RIT is that even though it is a very expensive school, you see your money being used. The classrooms and labs are all top notch, very high tech. RIT is one of the few tech schools that does not require students to own a laptop or other computer, simply because there is an abundance of school-owned computers available for use. The campus is kept very clean, and they've put a lot of work in the past couple of years into making it look a lot nicer (no easy task, as you can tell if you've ever seen pictures of the ugly brick buildings we have here).
The proffessors here are also great. I've had quite a few professors that I would rank among the most intelligent people I have ever met. They are all very approachable, and many of them work hard to integrate themselves into the student body not only as a teacher, but as someone you can talk to about just about anything.