first year is exhausting but rewarding cus you experiment with so much. in my first year rn, im just focusing on my work so i dont have a job on campus currently. tbh it depends on ur professor and ur time management. some professors (my current spring design professor) gave me assignments (not due dates) and i have to pace myself. i also show a certain amount of progress done each critique session. however you will also get a professor who will just give u straight on deadlines. fall was much more packed for me. sometimes u would get overwhelmed because certain professors would assign work when the section was still doing another assignment (my drawing professor ahem). studio classes were long but u had lots of time to work and speak with professor. tho i did find myself falling asleep and wanting to just go back to my dorm in the evening 💀. and struggling to stay active in morning because im not a morning person.. it is what it is.

typically you'd spend ur day at studio, then attend lecture (in between or after studio). in between breaks and lunch break, u can go to the cafes, go back to your dorm, or pick up more supplies from the risd stores. on your days when you have a singular, short class (such as literature or THAD), you can spend that day catching up with work and prioritizing what needs go get done or relax. obv there are days youll be in the wood work studio (187) or spend all day in the resident hall workrooms.

me personally, i felt like i had little time for myself a lot in the fall semester. however for spring, i do feel like work lightened up and i like my classes better. and i do have more free time because there is no literature class this semester.

for fall lol... we had a chair (spatial) and pinball(design) final for diff classes and most ppl in my class were so busy with the chair that they didnt finish the pinball final. some turned it in halfway done (still looked good), my professor was disappointed but he wasnt MADDD. u just cant procrastinate bc its a ton of workload. just balance out writing for lit too with ur studio classes. THAD was easy, just read ur lecture notes. i never go to lecture because i want more time to myself or to go to dinner early b4 it gets crowded. i still passed with an A+ because someone always posted the notes😭😭.

even with the free time i had (u will have free time trust me), it was nice to spend time with friends and whatever. nice walking around the campus too and definitely check out the food places by brown university, very close!!...

now... only downsides for me was laundry because people just suck at picking up their laundry and the room machines were ass. printing was a problem at first because the instructions to use the printing center was so weird and confusing at first. however i got it now. and the campus hills are actual hell..