Best thing: diversity of people, for the most part.
Things I'd change: male to female ratio (obvious answer); the brick architecture; the wind-tunnel campus design.
The school is just right in terms of size.
A lot of people recognize it as a good college when I tell them I go to RIT. Others, however, give me the ol' "Where's that?" Most the time it's that they don't recognize the acronym "RIT".. at the very least they know where Rochester is.
I actually spend most my time in the 3D animation labs, where I work on both 3D and 2D animation homework. That sounds dull, but it's turned out into more of a hang out, where all my friends and peers do their work. It's lax enough that we can make our own fun, projecting movies on the wall or playing dodgeball/baseball/frisbee in the hallway. Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at the gym, which is pretty sweet.
What college town? I've been hearing about this for almost 5 years now. Get your act together!
The administration is on/off out of touch with students. With our new president Dr. Dessler, there seems to be some improvement. My school's faculty is also on/off in touch with the students and the modern world. There are enough good professors that they make the school bearable.
Biggest controversy? I don't think there's been one this year yet. There is at least one average per year. Many years ago we had riot police come in to break up a non-riot (huge misunderstanding there). Following the VA shootings, a student had a case of wrong-place-wrong-time when he was caught cleaning his rifle. Oh! now there having some smoking issues, thinking that they should stop providing cigarettes at the student alumni building.
Pride? Not really, no. People will wear sweatshirts and the colors, but there aren't any rivalries with other schools, or the apparent need to shout proudly: "I come from RIT! Woooo!" We do have good turnouts for hockey games, though... but that's about it. Must be a northern thing.
Unusual about RIT? Oh, definitely... but you get used to them - the people, the activities, the culture. So used to them, in fact, I can't think of anything really to use as an example. They've been in bedded into my sense of normalcy.
Pschh, experience? Several, but they're mostly stupid, silly things I've done with my friends. Not like: "I remember one time the administration at RIT put together this really fun event", etc. I think this is the case with any college, however - you're going to remember your friends most of all, and the antics you mustered.
Complaints: not enough girls (then the girls say: "not enough quality guys", and the guys agree to increase their chances with those girls). In all fairness, there are a lot of creepy guys, and they do ruin it for the rest of us normal guys.
Other complaints: too windy, fun police get in the way all too often (our game of capture the flag was broken up!), bad parking situations, the sentinel is ugly as crap (a lot of the artwork is unnecessarily "arty"), and the number of bricks keeps growing.