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

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You are about to embark on a journey. Most of you have already been over this route. For many it may be the last time, for others there will be more journeys, experiences and events in this journey called the college experience. This book captures the memories of the past year at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Techmila is not a diary, or a chronology, nor a mere collection of photographs. It is an attempt to translate the ethos and spirit of this school into words and pictures - the physical environment, the activities, the moods and feelings, and most of all the people who make this school what it is. Through the various sections of the book, the yearbook staff has attempted to represent all that is RUT. When we started planning this book, we had little idea of its final appearance, a lot of the material on the following pages is spontaneous, brief moments catured for eternity. What we did know was that this book would be the vindication of the spirit of RIT. Capturing this spirit was not an easy task, it as elusive as a will-o-wisp which appears and disappears at the snap of the fingers. It is composed not of events and actions, but people and moods. This is what we wanted to represent in the book in general and more specifically in the photo essays. Every essay focuses on a personality who is unique to the RIT community and in particular reference to the section it is contained in. Appropriately the book opens with RITchie, the RIT mascot, because is the embodiment of this spirit we have tried to capture. When we spend a long span of time in one place, it is natural that we develop attitudes and feelings about it. These are reflected in what we remember about our days here. They could be simple incidents or complex issues, but they are a host of memories. As the years pass, the edges blur, definitions become vague, and the collage of college memories becomes a montage. Individual memories are replaced by a composite whole. Over the years the idea of a yearbook has altered tremendously. It has become more of an annual magazine or gossip column than a yearbook 1 as understood in its traditional sense. With this book we have tried to go 1 back to that traditional approach of a yearbook - presenting a composite whole, good spirit, a positive outlook backed by quality pictures which are aesthetically presented. We hope as you turn the pages you will share our perception. In the future as well, we may encounter brick buildings in such profusion, a culture steeped in conservative values, and an organization which may redefine bureaucracy. But will we encounter so many other things in one place such as those which make RIT unique? Deer and squirrel sal dusk and dawn, the spontaneous conversations in the RITreat, the tunnels below the dorms, buildings with numbers and names that don't make sense, all backed by quality Rochester weather, where else can you find it all? We invite you to commence this journey. The roads are no longer dark and deep, there are no more miles to go, only promises to keep to yourself and everyone else. Rochester Institute of Technology