Rochester Institute of Technology is Wikipedia IRL

[ylevental]

https://old.reddit.com/r/rit/comments/1 ... s/mlotqxm/

RIT used to be so much fun, because everyone was nerdy and they would let you do whatever you wanted. Over the past few years, however, they became very strict about everything. As a result, campus is really boring and orwellian. Glad to be leaving soon, but I still don't have a job lined up.

[ericbarbour]

Well, don't feel TOO bad. Higher education in general has been declining in quality, while prices go berserk. Places on the west coast that are similar to RIT, like Evergreen State College and CSU Humboldt, have also become paranoid prison-like compounds.

You should see UC Berkeley today. It is one of the most crowded campuses I've ever seen. It was always a crazy place but now it looks like a wartime POW camp, with barbed wire and cops and guards everywhere. Can't enter any building without ID and written permission. Metal detectors are commonplace. Homeless people everywhere. Rampant street crime and drug abuse, among the highest in the US.

How's this for paranoia?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 85225.php/

[boredbird]

Wasn't there some crazy Wiki admin from RIT called User:KrispieKreampie? Or maybe User:Limpet, can't remember. An actual girl which is pretty unusual since the rest of them besides User:Valeree are all trans.

[ylevental]

Well, don't feel TOO bad. Higher education in general has been declining in quality, while prices go berserk. Places on the west coast that are similar to RIT, like Evergreen State College and CSU Humboldt, have also become paranoid prison-like compounds.

You should see UC Berkeley today. It is one of the most crowded campuses I've ever seen. It was always a crazy place but now it looks like a wartime POW camp, with barbed wire and cops and guards everywhere. Can't enter any building without ID and written permission. Metal detectors are commonplace. Homeless people everywhere. Rampant street crime and drug abuse, among the highest in the US.

How's this for paranoia?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 85225.php/

I guess this is happening everywhere then.