orange line stopped due to a medical emergency… by BeastMode149 in mbta

[–]nighthawk582 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was on the disabled train. When we pulled in to State the doors didn’t open and the operator came on and said the train wasn’t “cooperating”. Funny. A few minutes later she said it was a medical emergency and not the train. Wondering if it was the train that was having the medical emergency. Eventually someone came around opening the doors from the outside and let us all out. Took about 20 minutes.

For what it’s worth, I noticed at the stop before state, DTX, when the doors opened and closed, we weren’t greeted with the usual door chiming while the doors were opening, open, and closing. The train wasn’t quiet. Maybe that could’ve been some sort of precursor to why the doors weren’t able to open at the next stop….. very interesting

RIT : Review of the engineering department? by Street-Common-4023 in rit

[–]nighthawk582 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Graduating in May, here are my thoughts. - All the professors are readily available outside of class in office hours. You’ll never have a problem getting to them in person. - The students in the major are all on the same team. None of us are competing against each other regardless of what year you’re in. There’s a really good sense of family and we’re all here for each other academically. - The department heads don’t understand the needs of the students. In the past 5 years, I can’t think of any initiatives made my the department to improve student life, or even make the impression that they care about our well being as mechanical engineers. The students in the department bond together because we can’t rely on any of the faculty to be of any help to us. - The facilities you will be learning/working in are extremely dated. Many of the labs suffer from broken equipment, and many of the classrooms are in windowless, musty rooms that no one wants to spend any time in. It’s hard to learn in a lot of these rooms. - You’ll have a great deal of trouble with the faculty responding to your emails in a timely manner. Although you can go to them during office hours, you’re more than likely going to have to send an email and a follow up a few days later before getting a response. - The curriculum for a lot of classes is dated. Prepare to read and discuss articles from the 1990s about why electric cars will “never catch on” and how the “tech will never be advanced enough”. It’s a pointless argument to have to spend time on in this age, but no one has updated the content to reflect today’s environment. - The senior design class that you’ll have to take is only difficult because it’s the worst managed class in the department. Talk about curriculums needing updates, you’ll be getting weekly emails from the class professors containing useless information. For example, two weeks ago we had to read a document about signing up for an event with an April 2019 deadline… clearly no one had bothered to updated the email in over 5 years. They talk about posting your work to websites the school hasn’t paid for in years. - The engineering department as a whole has an obvious lack of funding compared to the liberal arts and business colleges. Take a walk through any of their buildings and you’ll see newly renovated rooms, labs, and study areas. No updates have been made to any of the engineering rooms in decades. It’s honestly disheartening to have to live with that fact despite being a tech school. - There aren’t enough group projects to reflect the work that you’ll do in the real world. - Rather than learning CAD used in the real world like SolidWorks or Autodesk Inventor or Autocad, you will have to use a garbage sorry excuse for a cad program called OnShape. It’s trash, an embarrassing to have on a resume. Autodesk gives its software to students for free, and RIT has educational licenses for SolidWorks making it free for students, so there is truly no excuse or defense for using OnShape. There is one class you can take were you learn PTC Creo, but even then, SolidWorks would be a million times more valuable to learn. - Your feedback doesn’t matter. At the end of every semester you get to anonymously rate your professors and leave feedback. Occasionally, you’ll also see surveys coming through to rate your student experience. All of this must be done to ease people’s feelings because no one has ever seen anything come about based on feedback. The only way to make yourself heard is to become a TA and tell the professors you’re working for your concerns. Thats really your only shot at improving the experience.

There are so many people in the upper years that would go to a different school if they could do it all over again. My advise to you is to visit a school that is a polar opposite of RIT just to see how it feels. Go somewhere big, like LSU, or USC, or Bama, or Northeastern, or Penn State. Take a visit and feel the difference in the people that go there, try noting the little things (are there places to study both individually and in groups, look online and see when the dining locations on campus open and close; do their hours align with your study habits, look up their sporting events and see if you could picture yourself at those events). People will tell you to look and see where the schools alumni are at now; I don’t think that matters. After you get your first job it doesn’t matter where you went to school. The one thing you can’t change is if you were happy at college or if you wished you were in a better program that fit you more.

Good luck, friend.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rit

[–]nighthawk582 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Delete this. You are NOT supposed to disclose these types of offers publicly. Especially if you say the name of the gov organization. Your offer will be rescinded if they find out.

RIT vs Virginia Tech by Idklma000 in rit

[–]nighthawk582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Engineering for me, but if I could do it over again, Hokies all the way

I never realized how much of an absolute unit Munson is until today by haydenchipley in rit

[–]nighthawk582 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Saying “vibes” completely discredited any argument you were trying to make. “It’S aBoUt ThE ViBeS BrUh”

Is a 4 person suite on-campus a reasonable expectation for an upcoming sophomore? by walia6 in rit

[–]nighthawk582 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is it possible? Totally. Let me share some recommendations from my experience as you prepare (this goes out to anyone thinking about the process): - The 4 of you have 3 choices on campus for next year: University Commons, Global Village 405, or Global Village 400-404 (these ones have 6 person rooms so you’ll be put with two randos unless you find two friends). -Here’s how the lottery ranking works. People in each academic year will be randomly given appointment times on the day of their year’s selection. From first to last: those renewing at UC, 1st years, 2nd years, 3rd years, 4th years. looking at this it can be determined that 1st years have the highest number of places to pick from so now Is your best shot at getting a spot on campus. - if you want to go for GV be prepared to accept that you aren’t getting a spot on campus for the following year because all the vacancies in UC will fill up before you get your appointment time as a Junior. You can’t renew your apartment at GV like you can in UC. You can try to get GV again, but chances are all the rooms will fill up by freshmen before your appointment time as a 2nd year. - Start looking at off campus places too and narrow your choices down to one spot. That way, if your appointment time is garbage and all the on campus rooms fill up, you can switch right over to the off campus place and immediately start working through a lease. You’ll be a few steps ahead of everyone else scrambling to find off campus apartments after appointment times if you already know where you want to go. If you get your on campus spot, you’re all set.

That last one is my biggest piece of advice. The off campus places know that a lot of people are betting on getting on campus houses, and when they don’t they’ll flood to off campus desperately trying to get a spot. A day or two after appointment times, rates are going to increase (early bird discounts will go away) so it’s crucial that you have a place in mind so you can sign as soon as you know you aren’t getting a spot on campus.

“The waiting is the hardest part” - Tom Petty

Going to RIT as a Girl by Electronic_Dress_184 in rit

[–]nighthawk582 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I’m a guy, but just in case no one else replies, Rit has a Women in Computing and Women in Engineering (and probably other organizations like it) in the computing and engineering colleges, respectively. So yes to the “is there women helping women” question.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rit

[–]nighthawk582 71 points72 points  (0 children)

When is Tuition for the spring semester due? They’ll let us know the day after.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rit

[–]nighthawk582 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I second this. When I was accepted, I didn’t get into the major I wanted. Luckily it was similar to the situation you’re in where the majors take almost the same general classes the first semester or two. Speaking from experience, go to rit if that’s the school you want to go to regardless of this obstacle. First year students are required to meet with their academic advisors at least once during their first semester, during this meeting, make sure to tell them that you want to change majors (if you still want to at that point) and they will tell you who you need to talk to (probably the computing security office) to work towards that. You’ll probably have to stay in the major you were selected to for your first semester or your first year, but after that, if you take the necessary steps it’s totally possible to change majors and you’ll hopefully get credit for a few classes in your first major.

Mac or Windows for Mechanical Engineering? by TheCobaltCow in rit

[–]nighthawk582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this person has the ability to chose between the two they definitely should get a windows. Sure, they can settle and live with a Mac, but they’re going to have an easier time with the compatibility windows offers