Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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What’s Your Number A Look at the Average RIT Student The average Rochester Institute of Technology student is a member of a 17,000 student body, who comes from one of every state in the USA or from one of another 59 countries, speaks one of 35 languages, practices one of over 16 religions on campus, is a member of one of 9 colleges, is between the age of 18-65, studies one of 248 majors, has classes in one of 126 buildings, tries to park one of the 12,000 registered cars in 1 of 10 parking lots, in I of 5000 parking spaces, is taught by one of 1500 professors, assisted by over 2500 staff members, guided by 18 major administrators, eats one of 10,100 meals served by food service each day, reads some of the 250,000 books in 4 libraries, has the option to live in 1 of 4 apartment complexes with over 960 apartments to choose from 17899 residence hall rooms, can participate in 13 Greek Houses. !8 Varsity Sports, and 55 clubs. Average? There is no such thing as an average RIT student Natalie Merd 18 More Sullivan

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ut ove In V Move-In is a project undertaken each year with the sole purpose of situating civilians into .an academic atmosphere. On September 3rd, over 1800 freshman students were subjected to this experience. The very first Move-In experience bestowed upon the eager subjects was a three hour wait of crawling traffic through RlT’s parking lots in the hot sun before the new students could even drop off their luggage. (Top that. People Express!) Additional highlights included lost luggage, saying good-bye to Mom and even more waiting. Relief was fell by the freshly processed student as he confidently strode towards his dorm. Surprise! The diligent student who put up with the stress and toil found himself rewarded with his very own room, complete with two other noisy, smelly and messy residents. Yet, after much negotiation, the new dormie was able to reserve a small corner for himself. No problem dude. Escape and Salvation is here! The key word here is PARTY, folks, and the wildest and craziest were to be had in the fall. Many find this to be essential to sustaining life, and the only way to preserve mental competence 20