Alright, first off, fuck RIT's registration techniques. Yea, it makes sense to let the seniors register first, so deal with it freshmen. But, everyone has to register at 6am. Even as a senior you might have trouble logging in. As a freshmen, winter quarter, be prepared to get up at 550 and click that button until you get in. You might notice the sun rise, and well, then you might notice it set before you can register. You'll be fighting with so many other freshmen over the same classes and anything that looked good that you might have wanted, its not there. All upper class students have taken your nice classes at nice times. Have fun with your 8am physics 4 days a week. As you get a higher rank, it still sucks. I had to get up at 550am to register my last quarter because I still fight for classes and nice schedules. Why is registration at 6am? Who the fuck knows. Apparently the 90yr old administrative people here like it like that. One of you, join student government and run on the option of changing registration times. You'll will because there are few things we actually care about.
Also, fuck campus safely. You might luck out and they won't care. We got a party busted and there may or may not have been 18yr old girls drinking, a keg in the back of my apartment, a hooka, a live band, and my roommate passed out before it even started, but they did tell us to blow out the candles because, well, open flames are just unacceptable. We lucked out, pray you do to. Friends of mine have been fucked with a years probation.
Also, look at tuition rates when you join. That number will last fall quarter of your freshman year. They like to hike up the price rather consistently. I'm paying plenty more now than I was. As if it wasn't a pain in the ass already w/o financial aid.
On another note, fuck RIT housing. Living in the dorms costs you as much as the currently best on campus apartments and much more than our cheap apartments. They're building you assholes new living quarters on my dime right now, but I'd expect those to be crazy expensive, so unless your mommy bought you a new Lexus last year, slap all the sorority bitches living there for me. On a similar note, you are in a lottery to get an apartment. Once again, the brilliant minds at RIT amaze me in that if you don't get one your sophomore year, you are actually less likely to get one the next year. I got screwed and lived in the dorms two years. Luckily, I found friends to move in with.
Oh yea, fire alarms. Yea, sometimes the retarded kid sets of the alarm because he blows up the microwave trying to warm up that grapefruit he's about to have sexual relations with, but the school run drills at 3am I could do without. Getting up 2 hours early for an 8am exam is not my favorite thing. Standing out in the cold, also not so great. I don't know why they won't at least let people into another building to chill and maintain their sperm count by not freezing their spherical objects off.