New Englanders - best driving route to RIT?

12dandelion
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:20:00 +0000

@MazeArtCrew the campus is in a pretty typical suburban sprawl area and you’ll see many familiar chains. We went to Buffalo Wild Wings once, and also a steak chain - maybe a Longhorn. They were all fine. A unique to Rochester dish is something called a garbage plate. I haven’t had one, D did in October, and said she doesn’t need to again. It might be fun for your D to look that one up herself.

The campus has many varied food options, and you certainly could grab a quick dinner there. There is a housing and retail area called Global Village. It has some fun sounding dining options. I know my D has burned a lot of food debit credits over there. https://www.rit.edu/fa/globalvillage/

If the weather is really nice, we liked exploring the ‘beach’ area (this was on an August trip). I think it’s officially called Ontario Beach Park, but it’s locally known as Charlotte Beach. There’s a few places to eat down there, burger and ice cream spots. I’m not sure it will be warm enough though in early April for that to be enjoyable.

I’ll be honest now; for most of the crazy few weeks of senior year when she was waiting for acceptance letters and trying to make her decision, RIT was not D’s first choice. She was in love with some of the beautiful campuses and ‘feel’ of some New England liberal arts colleges. Even after attending accepted students day, she was not ready to commit to RIT. But then she went to one last overnight at a women’s college, and figured out that was not the right choice at all. So RIT it is. And now she loves it. But I don’t think she loves the idea of Rochester. So that one may be a tough sell.