<p>More time now so more comparison between Rochester and Brandeis. Both schools offer a lot of activities on-campus and you and the friends you make will find plenty to keep busy beside school work and anyone who has a job. Rochester has the added benefits of performances at Eastman. There are good restaurant choices on East Avenue, and not too much happening right off campus but plans are coming together for the college town project. The bus system makes it easy to get places… and you can always take cabs. Life changes sophomore year when either you or people you know have cars, not just for getting to Wegman’s and to East Ave at night… in addition to RIT, you can also go other places. My d had good friends at Cornell and went there several times to see concerts. They also went sometimes to Buffalo, one weekend to Toronto and Niagara Falls. You have Highland Park right off campus which is lovely, but you also have the park. beach and the area off Lake Erie that you need a car to get to…
Brandeis offers a van service into Cambridge regularly from Thursday to Sunday plus the commuter train is a few blocks from campus. You and your friends will also likely have friends at other schools-Tufts, MIT, BU, Harvard and you can take advantage of all those opportunities. There are tons of restaurants in Boston and Cambridge and some decent ones in Waltham too and all the shopping and entertainment you could want. There are all the museums, the Celtics, standing room at Fenway Park, BSO and the Boston Ballet. D and her friends went to NH skiing at least one weekend every winter, there are further road trips to Salem and places farther afield. Not my d, but some took advantage of the Indian casinos in CT…</p>
<p>potatoman, sounds like you were signing off…and we just barely knew ya. Good luck at Columbia.</p>
<p>Thanks to the rest of you for some great stuff on UR and details about the city, where to go, how to get there, etc. Definitely good to read about the level of enthusiasm several of you have for UR, and if UR ends up being the one for us I will definitely come back for all of the info provided.</p>
<p>Hi</p>
<p>I just wanted to know how hard it is for a freshman to have a campus job fall semester since most jobs ask for employees the previous spring semester.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>When D was a freshman 5 yrs ago, she went to the job fair during the opening days of the year and got a job easily. She kept it all 4 years, and made good friends due to the job as well.</p>
<p>My (freshman) went to the job fair last fall and easily got a job. He could have had more than one. He’s happily working where he likes and plans to continue his job next year. I guess it might depend upon what type of job you want. Lab jobs tend to want experience, so it helps if one starts as a volunteer with those.</p>
<p>Yes, if you’re talking about a job in your field, you have to hustle for those, luck out, build up some relationship with a professor, etc. If you’re talking about a decent job at school, you can get that first term certainly second term.</p>
<p>My D (freshman 4 years ago) also had no trouble finding a job. </p>
<p>She didn’t work her first semester (I want her to adjust to college first before taking on a job), but easily found a job second semester. She worked for the same dept until graduation. She also got a second paying job during her sophomore year–which she also stayed with until graduation.</p>
<p>Besides the job fair, there’s a job board where all positions are posted.</p>
<p>Hi, im a student from Alaska.</p>
<p>Is there any skiing (cross country or downhill) near the school or in the city??</p>
<p>Alas, no downhill nearby. (Oh these flatlanders will say there are mountains and down hill skiing about an hour-to-hour and a half away, but it’s eastern skiing with little hills and yucky snow.)</p>
<p>Bristol Mt is the nearest downhill ski area</p>
<p><a href=“Bristol Mountain | New York Ski Resort | Canandaigua, NY”>Bristol Mountain | New York Ski Resort | Canandaigua, NY;
<p>Crosscountry skiing you can do near campus. On campus, for that matter. Assuming there’s enough snow.</p>
<p>Rochester (the city) has a Nordic Ski Club (which friends of our used to belong to until they moved to CA.) They liked skiing along the Erie Canal walking trail.</p>
<p>[Rochester</a> Nordic Ski Club](<a href=“http://www.rochesternordic.org/]Rochester”>http://www.rochesternordic.org/)</p>
<p>UR has a ski club which organizes trips</p>
<p><a href=“https://sa.rochester.edu/clubs/RecSnow/about[/url]”>https://sa.rochester.edu/clubs/RecSnow/about</a></p>
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<p>tl;dr Bring your skinny skis to campus.</p>
<p>Which dorm is the best? Sue B. halls or quad??</p>
<p>People like them both. Quad has bigger rooms. Sue B has the dining hall. They’re both great. :)</p>
<p>They are both great, depends on your preference. Susan B is a single muliti-story building like an tall Apt house. It is shaped like an “X”. One draw is that one dining hall is at the bottom.</p>
<p>The Quads are each shaped like an “L” and are only 4 stories high. There are grassy areas outside and they are next to the Frat dorms. Students more often go to the other dining hall above the bookstore to eat.</p>