Rochester Institute of Technology, an institute of higher learning, is known to the world as one of the leading photography (arts), business engineering school. Through their programs, they have graduates working with major companies such as Jonson and Jonson, Boeing Aeronautics, Microsoft, Google, Labtec, Regency Hotel, New York Times, Time Magazine and many more companies. Yes it looks good, but is it really?

Currently, as a student at the university, I am in debate. The college itself keeps it word about being challenging. But its not for the reason you would think. Unlike many other universities who follow the semester rule (16 weeks), RIT believes in using the Quarter system. So instead of having 16 weeks to learn the content (like you would in a semester school), you need to learn the same content within 10 weeks. This is the reason for many bad grades in the college. You cannot rush the students to stuff this much content in short period of time. Learning needs time and that needs to be granted right? Actually, I kind of like the quarter system. Yes I have failed 2 classes but this is actually teaching me a lesson. Life is not going to slow down for you. You gotta stop chasing the donkey to pin its tail in place, but rather catch it from the front.

What I hate about my school is the vacation time. Who in their right mind will give 2 weeks off for thanksgiving? Right now I am on my spring break. I know what your thinking, its early. I agree. Many, if not all, have their vacation towards the end of march. Yes it is agreeable to have a vacation right at the end of the quarter but its too early to call this spring break. I would rather have a break when my friends have a break, so that when I get home, I am not bored out of my mind stuck at home. I want RIT to change its policies.

Ok I’m really tired now, and this Journal/Blog entry did not go in the direction as I had hoped and yes I do realize the grammar errors. Oh well, thats life. So I’ll just list what I did this week.

Friday – Came home from university. Hurt my elbow and had to wear a cast-like elbow wrap. To make matters worse, I had a wire go in my fingers about 1 centimeter. It hurt but I didn’t realize what was going on until I saw the blood. Haha, ouch.

Saturday – I really don’t remember what happened on saturday. I think I spent the entire day at home doing nothing. I do remember one thing, my friend called me up with a plan to surprise two people for their birthday. So I went through Jackson Heights trying to find find a gift for one of them. Ended up getting a pair of 14K gold earrings with antique stone in the center.

Sunday – Went to the surprise party and it went great. We all had fun and Tenzin and I decided to watch the 10,000 BC movie. We went to the theatre to find out that it doesn’t release until the upcoming friday. Then some events occurred, went into a moment of awe and sadness. Oh when I turned on my phone, my inbox was filled with new text message saying “PLEASE SMILE.” I thought that it was really caring that she spent all that money to text me. Haha I didn’t get charged, since I have the monthly text plan

Monday – Met up with a old high school science teacher who had a large impact on me. Got to give a lecture to his Honors Physics class on somethings that they will face in college and how not to ignore what the teacher said since I did that and it didn’t work out that great for me. Later on he treated us to free lunch. Had a great tasting Chicken Sandwich. Went to Best Buy and bought Sony VAIO T2310 Laptop for my dad. He was pretty excited and I think he fell in love with the laptop.

Tuesday – Today I found out how much both my father and I really hate Windows Vista. The OS, I’m sorry to say this, IT SUCKS. Just moving a browser left and right ate up almost 10% of my speed. It just pisses me off now. Now getting off that, I went to New Jersey today. Drove 1.3 hours to Elizabeth, New Jersey; stayed there for 30 minutes, and drove back 1.3 hours. Ate lunch at Target and returned home.

Wednesday – Yeay now I get to talk about today…No nothing excited really happened, I’m just soo bored that I did not want to be caught sounding soo boring. I know I suck at this but what the hell; who cares..haha. So I bought a set of wireless keyboard and mouse for myself. Its the Labtec Media Wireless Desktop 800 series. I’m surprised to say this but I think I really like this keyboard and mouse. Wow. Keyboard is silent so I’m not waking anyone up with all this typing and I get to blind my brother with the laser from the mouse. MUHAHAhA.

Ok thats enough. I gotta get some sleep. NIGHT HOME SLICES (no I am not part of a gang nor am I “ghetto”).