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OOBradm

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Today is my first day of orientation, and i was wondering if anyone else that frequents the ATOT boards goes here or just arrived. Im on the fourth floor in the Gleason building if anyone is here!
 
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cw42

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nope, but i got to NJIT today. classes start tomorrow for me at 1pm :/
 
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Originally posted by: OOBradm
Today is my first day of orientation, and i was wondering if anyone else that frequents the ATOT boards goes here or just arrived. Im on the fourth floor in the Gleason building if anyone is here!
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In the area, but graduated way back :D
 
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xyion

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graduated. my friends went back to campus this past weekend. school starts for them on tuesday. i kinda miss it.
 
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yobarman

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RIT senior here. I just got back friday, but I live in the city. I'm gonna be on campus monday to straighten a lot of sh(t out with my classes and fin aid, register my car, etc. after that i'm hittin up the new gym (which i cant wait to see) and then off to look for a new job!
 
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yobarman

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hmmm... spend the morning dodging my way around all the freshmen today. I can't say that i'm thoroughly impressed by the quality of the freshman girls, :p Just kiddin, have fun freshman! BTW: You don't really have to go to FYE!
 
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Anubis

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Originally posted by: OOBradm
Is FYE worth going to?
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not really its just like a big store that sells lots of CDs and DVDs and relates stuff
not much different then a suncoast
the one in the East View mall is HUGE tho and i guess its worth seeing once if you havent seen it before

and yes teh rain today was great, i was supposed to go boating :(
 
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DaWhim

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i live 80 miles west of you.

I saw this article and totally agree with it. I went to rochester a few time this summer.

The Buffalo News
COMMENTARY
See Rochester and feel better about Buffalo
8/24/2004

By MARY KUNZ

Feeling down about Buffalo? Worrying about our unemployment, our struggling schools, our rain? Here's something to think about to make ourselves feel better:
Rochester.

Sure, even if the drive there down the Thruway is drab and dangerous, we've always been fond of our neighbor to the east. We've enjoyed rivalries, but they've been mostly friendly, and Buffalo has borrowed Rochester's snowplows and blues musicians. Spot Coffee spilled over into Rochester. So, for a while, did Artvoice.

But now, let's be honest, Buffalo needs a whipping boy, someone to make us feel that we're not the most pitiful kid on the playground.

And Rochester fits that role perfectly.

Why? Because at the moment, they're worse off than we are. Their economy held up longer than ours, thanks to Kodak and Xerox. But now it's dying an uglier death than ours. And we're ahead of them, because we hit bottom some time ago, and now we're pushing off.

Cheering up already, aren't you?

Grit your teeth sometime soon, and take that boring drive to Rochester. Check it out. A friend and I have been going there every few months for five years, and we're stunned at what we see. Rochester is fading like an old Kodacolor photograph. The city's blue downtown Thruway signs have bleached to a kind of gray. Some are falling off their signposts.

They have beggars on the streets in Rochester. One guy has stood for five years on a highway ramp holding a sign reading: "Will Work For Food." On a recent Friday, he was joined at another intersection by a slender, denim-clad blond. Her sign read: "Help My Family."

If Buffalo parties like it's 1999, Rochester parties like it's 1929.

Buffalo thinks our construction projects take forever. One long road in Rochester, an artery that runs past the Kodak plant, has been choked up with cones for five years. Perhaps because of stresses like these, Rochesterians are in a perpetual state of road rage. Even pedestrians! One guy was walking in the street. We tried to give him room, and he yelled: "Pick a lane, @#*(&!"

And this was on a Friday. During happy hour. What are they like the rest of the week?

We found that Edward's, the upscale restaurant we'd hoped to visit, had closed, its owner blaming Rochester's economy. So we went to a Japanese restaurant. There was no sushi.

"The sushi bar is being remodeled," the waiter said.

Formica was coming off the table. A screen flashed blurred photos of patrons grinning and brandishing chopsticks. Blurred photos. In Rochester. Then the cook set a pile of onions on fire in the middle of the hibachi grill and said: "Mount Fuji!"

For shame. Fuji should be a dirty word in this town.

Now for the sweetest part: Rochester gets more rain than we do. Everyone there is even pastier than we are.

They dress even worse than we do, too, maybe because they're so down in the dumps. At the Japanese joint, we saw backward baseball caps, shapeless gray T-shirts and baggy prison yard jeans. Not only that, but we saw Adam Sandler and Michael Moore clones out together. They went Dutch.

And gas was $2.30 a gallon.

See? Next to Rochester, we're not only west - we're West Coast. Driving back through that Williamsville toll barrier, you'll feel like you're coming home to San Diego. Compared with Rochester's problems, Buffalo's don't seem so bad. As the saying goes: "I once complained that I had no shoes, until I saw a man with no feet."

Feels good, doesn't it?


e-mail: mkunz@buffnews.com
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yobarman

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Originally posted by: DaWhim
i live 80 miles west of you.

I saw this article and totally agree with it. I went to rochester a few time this summer.

The Buffalo News
COMMENTARY
See Rochester and feel better about Buffalo
8/24/2004

By MARY KUNZ

Feeling down about Buffalo? Worrying about our unemployment, our struggling schools, our rain? Here's something to think about to make ourselves feel better:
Rochester.

Sure, even if the drive there down the Thruway is drab and dangerous, we've always been fond of our neighbor to the east. We've enjoyed rivalries, but they've been mostly friendly, and Buffalo has borrowed Rochester's snowplows and blues musicians. Spot Coffee spilled over into Rochester. So, for a while, did Artvoice.

But now, let's be honest, Buffalo needs a whipping boy, someone to make us feel that we're not the most pitiful kid on the playground.

And Rochester fits that role perfectly.

Why? Because at the moment, they're worse off than we are. Their economy held up longer than ours, thanks to Kodak and Xerox. But now it's dying an uglier death than ours. And we're ahead of them, because we hit bottom some time ago, and now we're pushing off.

Cheering up already, aren't you?

Grit your teeth sometime soon, and take that boring drive to Rochester. Check it out. A friend and I have been going there every few months for five years, and we're stunned at what we see. Rochester is fading like an old Kodacolor photograph. The city's blue downtown Thruway signs have bleached to a kind of gray. Some are falling off their signposts.

They have beggars on the streets in Rochester. One guy has stood for five years on a highway ramp holding a sign reading: "Will Work For Food." On a recent Friday, he was joined at another intersection by a slender, denim-clad blond. Her sign read: "Help My Family."

If Buffalo parties like it's 1999, Rochester parties like it's 1929.

Buffalo thinks our construction projects take forever. One long road in Rochester, an artery that runs past the Kodak plant, has been choked up with cones for five years. Perhaps because of stresses like these, Rochesterians are in a perpetual state of road rage. Even pedestrians! One guy was walking in the street. We tried to give him room, and he yelled: "Pick a lane, @#*(&!"

And this was on a Friday. During happy hour. What are they like the rest of the week?

We found that Edward's, the upscale restaurant we'd hoped to visit, had closed, its owner blaming Rochester's economy. So we went to a Japanese restaurant. There was no sushi.

"The sushi bar is being remodeled," the waiter said.

Formica was coming off the table. A screen flashed blurred photos of patrons grinning and brandishing chopsticks. Blurred photos. In Rochester. Then the cook set a pile of onions on fire in the middle of the hibachi grill and said: "Mount Fuji!"

For shame. Fuji should be a dirty word in this town.

Now for the sweetest part: Rochester gets more rain than we do. Everyone there is even pastier than we are.

They dress even worse than we do, too, maybe because they're so down in the dumps. At the Japanese joint, we saw backward baseball caps, shapeless gray T-shirts and baggy prison yard jeans. Not only that, but we saw Adam Sandler and Michael Moore clones out together. They went Dutch.

And gas was $2.30 a gallon.

See? Next to Rochester, we're not only west - we're West Coast. Driving back through that Williamsville toll barrier, you'll feel like you're coming home to San Diego. Compared with Rochester's problems, Buffalo's don't seem so bad. As the saying goes: "I once complained that I had no shoes, until I saw a man with no feet."

Feels good, doesn't it?


e-mail: mkunz@buffnews.com
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ugh, this article is so true it's not even funny. THIS CITY SUCKS! BUT I HAVE TO LIVE HERE FOR ANOTHER YEAR! AHHHHHHHHH!

oh well, i'm actually numb to the feeling of hating rochester now.
 

How about you get off your computer and go out making friends at your new school? Oh, right, you're at RIT. Never mind.
 
dr150

dr150

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Did you hear at Duke they got free Ipods last week?

Of course, it isn't FREE as the Duke propaganda says. It's buried in that HUGE multikilobuck tuition.

While the school says it's to be used as a "tool" for recording lectures and whatnot, kids at Duke confessed that they'll use it as an MP3 player! LOL! :D .........The only tools are the Duke admins for thinking the IPOD will be used for anything otherwise. ;)


...........Duke should have done what U. Of Matyland B School is doing which is give the students a Blackberry. Now that is a real tool!
 
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