“I want to be a sign language interpreter.”

Like many students, I started college with a set path...

Many people go to school to get an education and learn how to balance their time, budget, homework, friends and family. Some people can handle those big responsibilities, while some people struggle to handle the burden...

“I only got five hours of sleep last night.”

“You think that’s bad? I only got two!”

Almost daily, I overhear conversations like this where people are glorifying a lack of sleep...

There was a night at the end of last semester when the wall holding my worries back collapsed — and with it, so did I...

When I first arrived at RIT, I was a gangly, acne-ridden, 18-year-old fresh off the plane from Oregon. Tired of small-school life, I had chosen the biggest college on my list and moved across the country...

Hi,

I’m Frankie, and I spent the last year as Editor in Chief of Reporter, and the last four years as a student at RIT...

Recently, we have all become aware of how necessary it is for us as a community to raise our voice and speak up for what we believe in and deserve.. I’m sure you can immediately think of a few recent instances — from class cancellations to healthcare.

It is our mission at Reporter to aid in that necessity as the student voice on campus. But you — the students, faculty and staff of RIT — must speak up to us as well.

Hold us accountable if we aren’t talking about something we should be, or if we aren’t doing something right. Utilize us as the student press. We are here to support all of you — that’s our job...

Last semester, Lambda Phi Epsilon and RIT’s College Activities Board worked together to co-sponsor a campus screening of the Crazy Rich Asians movie...

Doctor Munson,

Just three months ago a student took their own life on campus grounds. When a member of the RIT family passes, we look to the office of RIT’s president for leadership, guidance, and a sense of community...

The culture we experience in college life binds us to an environment that constantly puts our mental health at risk — more than we may sometimes like to admit.

This culture is incredibly toxic.

As college students, we are constantly bombarded with our academic, personal, work, family and everyday pressures, expectations and stressors — with little opportunity to breathe. We have to manage all of that, along with the undertones of being pushed to succeed and be perfect in all of those aspects of life...

When promises are made in response to dire needs, there is often a tendency to sit back and congratulate ourselves on an accomplished objective. We fought; they promised to fix things; we stopped.

There is also another tendency however, for promises to be made — and not fulfilled, or for progress to be unacceptably slow.

As a community, we recently became incredibly aware of how dangerous the lack of adequate mental health care services on this campus can be. We have seen the impacts, heard the stories and raised our voices...

Jamil Khashoggi died after engaging in a brawl, California firefighters should fight fires with rakes and an RIT student fell to his death on Halloween evening. Do you believe any one of these examples of “fake news?” You shouldn’t...

Dear RIT Administration,

We are all members of RIT’s community: tens of thousands of people who live and work on this campus in a brick city that we call home.

We are, in essence, citizens of this city. As citizens, we deserve to know more about the decisions and processes that impact our school, our home and our lives.

Transparency is an essential component of any community — especially that of a college campus. A lack of transparency creates a deficiency in trust, stifles creativity and precludes universal consensus.

Though lack of transparency is often perceived that way, this is not to say that all cases are malicious. But they can be...

This op-ed was written before RIT's latest press release on Nov. 5, 2018.

RIT,

I am a recent graduate and I wanted to share my experiences and great disappointment at what is happening at the school...

Many of us have our lives planned out — sketched into a mental map of our future, with all its goals and ambitions.

Path and plan are our translation of the future and all it may be.

It’s an odyssey — journeying through college, sailing along with the voyage of life.

It feels as if you are at the helm, captain of the ship, free of strife.

But often the mantle is dismantled — washing away all notion of direction.

New opportunities appear on the horizon; storms ruffle once quiet waters and rocks bar the way, forcing reflection.

No journey ever existed without the journey itself. That mental map of ours isn’t teleportation, but initiation...

You've arrived — the pin on the map, your next destination. You arrived but a few weeks ago, or perhaps a few years ago. Maybe you have since settled in. Maybe you dove in and haven’t settled since.

Throughout your college adventure, you will experience so many things that you neither planned nor expected. Each one of them will change you and shape who you become. Some will be exciting and fulfilling, some might break your spirit and some might be imprisoning and monotonous. You will learn from all of them.

You will push yourself — to prepare for that job, to get into that graduate school, to be successful, to be happy.

Issues in your life will come up...

Welcome to RIT. In four or five short years, you will leave this place, like I just have, and RIT will try to take advantage of that. Now, don't get me wrong, RIT is a wonderful school and a great place to learn. But it is also plagued with bureaucratic bullshit that will make mistakes, make promises and then conveniently forget about them when the majority of students have moved on.

I want to take this opportunity to share with you the mistakes, promises and other problems that I've encountered in my four years that I don't want you to forget about. I want you to remember them and hold the administration accountable...

In 1968, UC Berkeley student activists Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee coined the term “Asian American...

Folks tell me I get too excited about

Work

People

Jokes

Happenstance.

They’d rather a temperament more temperate.

There’s nothing memorable about a being

So balmy.

Gusts knock us off our feet, so should gesture

With gusto.

There’s no thrill in a game played on easy, and

I don't want to be a weepy wanderer. I want to enjoy, really

Enjoy

Every step of my journey. For as long as I can,

I want the mundane to excite me. And

If my enthusiasm is mistaken for a childlike intensity, know that

I meant for it to be so...

I have been too quiet at times. I have actively chosen to be a passive member of the communities and organizations I am part of. There have been moments when I have held my tongue and kept myself from contributing to the conversation. I am not proud of that.

I have also said too much. I have walked into encounters with only one direction in mind. I have not always been so empathetic to the opinions of others. I am certainly not proud of that either.

We tend to listen with our opinions, to experience with our sensibilities rather than our senses...

This is an essay regarding my perception of a personal hero, and how a short article by Neil Strauss changed it for the better.

I am your standard Elon Musk fan boy...

They see me.

They see me not.

Write another paper, hand it in.

They see me.

They see me not.

Take another exam, hand it in.

They see me.

They see me not.

Write an application. Submit it. Maybe it’s for grad school or a full time job. The goal is to stand out, to catch someone’s eye.

This is no easy task. With summer just a few months away, what was once a tantalizing career crush, turns into labored application submissions for furthered education, internships, co ops or full time opportunities...

This is an overture, and I am over churning the same problems over and over and over again. It’s like we’ve been chewing on the same piece of gum for so long, we’ve gone numb to its flavour, and yet it still sticks.

When problems arise, the predisposition is to cast blame on the administration — the easiest target. Habitually unforgiving, this broad-sweeping tendency just spells laziness, stagnation. An innocent bystander is not so until proven guilty. We wait until the brevity of a situation reaches a threshold that, when hit, hails the inner humanitarian, unifying us. Until then, it’s not any one’s fault, rather it is taken to be the establishment’s...

Dear editors, Reporter magazine:

In response to your Oct...

The pace is different here.

That’s the first thing I noticed when I moved to RIT. While I would have felt totally fine moseying on by, folks here would sprint from sunrise to sunset. Cultural differences, when combined with the vibrant energy of a college campus, collectively harbored this infectious sense of urgency.

I had never really spent a significant enough period of time on the East coast prior to attending RIT. Growing up in Los Angeles, this whole side of the country just seemed to me to be an amalgamation of state borders stitched together into one big historically charged quilt...

I’m afraid of letting the people I care about down. I’ve got butterflies in my belly and the ache to prove it.

The start of any semester can be rather tumultuous. Only a few days in, we realize the arduous nature of the workload we have taken on. Expectations quake as incentives wane and some students find themselves having to choose between the responsibilities they signed up for.

We, the busy students that we are, flow into and out of obligations, whether intentional or not. Our studies come first. And so, over the past few weeks Reporter has seen some sudden stirrup in staffing. Various roles have flown from one able pair of hands to another. It happens...

Dear President Munson and Provost Haefner,

We write in response to the recent program for first-year students, “Alcohol and Chill,” and the attention one slide has received...

Accessibility is a quintessential component for quality of life.

Last year, I recall listening to a provocative conference keynote address by Patricia Moore on the humanity of design in its present state. Sitting in Booth’s Webb Auditorium, the crowd of students was eagerly poked and prodded by her piercing words as Moore shed light on the current weaknesses of the industry — areas of opportunity for us all in the crowd.

Our chairs creaked beneath us like the joints of the elderly for whom design had failed to actively acknowledge. As people age, she explained that there are fewer products available to help them maintain their quality of life...

Where are you going?

I ask myself this question before making all major decisions. It brought me to Rochester. It guided me to the flagpoles and roundabout entrance of the RIT campus, GPS chiming in with “turn left” and then “you have reached your destination.”

For many, this place is a whole new town full of strange faces and unexplored places, each a unique opportunity. I have found, in my time on campus and off on co-op, that you meet the friendliest people on college campuses. RIT is particularly rich in character — campus quads peppered with presence on sunny days, brick buildings riddled with enthusiastic diversity...

In response to your July 9, 2017 article, please know that there has not been a change in policy at our Student Health Center (SHC) with respect to the management of a treatment plan, including the administration and monitoring associate..