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ANybody who have went to CSUN or currently going to CSUN. Can you describe your experiences and stuff about CSUN, I wanna hear some stories and experiences from people who went there. I am considering going to CSUN for university.
 
Graduate of 2003. Good experience, got a great job, moved away. Terrific school, good resources, loved the National Center on Deafness, made many friends, learned a lot of things, dated my (now) wife, still have friends and professors and college employees I miss and talk to. Will be going to an alumni reunion this October. That's the short story. Need anymore, feel free to PM me.
 
I would like to know if CSUN is like NTID/RIT, and I am seeking for other colleges than ntid and Uconn,.
 
NTID and CSUN share some similarities, but if you really want to get into the exact college differences, I'll talk about them later.

NTID has about 1000 deaf and hard of hearing students. CSUN has about 250 students. The community around both schools have tons of deaf people, events, activities, and things to do. Both schools provide interpreters, real time captioning in class, and notetaking. Lots of support for activities out of class too.

CSUN is just outside of the city of Los Angeles. Big city, lots of stuff to do. Lots of things to see, sunny and warm year round, has their strength in certain majors like education (teaching), business (professional skills), entertainment (tv/movie/radio/acting), science (biology, geology, physics) and a few others I'm forgetting

Rochester, on the other hand, is a relatively small city far, far away from New York city. The closest major city is Buffalo, NY. Their major strengths are around technical fields (comp science, information tech/science, dunno what else). If you like snow, you'll get it in the winter.

The bottom line is, check with how you're paying for college (i.e., VR) and get a chance to visit some colleges to find out how they feel. I felt great at CSUN, didn't feel interested in moving to western NY.
 
I am at CSUN and totally loving it. The ASL/Deaf Studies program is SOOO much better here than at the community college I went to before. Hanabathief, you here at CSUN? PM me if you are.
I can say more a little later on what I think and all that, once I've really gotten into classes, but so far, all the staff has been really helpful and friendly.


P.S. I love the deaf dorms! All the deaf people I have met have been totally accepting of me. Yay
 
I wonder how is the interpreting situation at CSUN? This is purely anecdotal, but I heard that due to scarcity of qualified interpreters, the quality of interpreting has gone down.
 
Dennis said:
Rochester, on the other hand, is a relatively small city far, far away from New York city. The closest major city is Buffalo, NY. Their major strengths are around technical fields (comp science, information tech/science, dunno what else). If you like snow, you'll get it in the winter.
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Some of this is actually not true. Rochester is the third largest city in NY state, after NYC and Buffalo. Rochester proper, as of the 2000 census, has a population of 219,773. Monroe County, which is almost entirely comprised of Rochester and its suburbs, has a population of 735,343. By common definitions, Rochester is a 'large city'. Taking into account Brighton, Penfield, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Greece, Gates, Chili, Pittsford, Fairport, Webster, Rush, and East Rochester, it's easy to see that Rochester is not a small city. Is it as big as NYC or Buffalo? No, but it's definately not a small city by any stretch of the imagination.

That said, RIT/NTID does not actually reside in the city of Rochester itself (they are legally in Rochester but physically in Henrietta), so getting to the city would require a car or a willingness to use public transportation. RIT has eight colleges, of which the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (GCCIS), Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE) and College for Imaging Arts and Sciences (CIAS) are the most populous student-wise. The College for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) seems to be growing as well while the College of Business (COB), College of Science (COS), and College of Liberal Arts (COLA) seem to be shrinking. So your assertion that RIT/NTID is mostly a tech/engineering school is largely correct, though a lot of people because of the name seem to forget about CIAS and our art and photo programs.

RIT strives to fully integrate the dhh students, and they generally don't do a bad job, though there are some times where the system just fails. There is no 'all deaf' housing at RIT, though all deaf students living in the dorms will invariably live on particular floors (generally of Tower A, aka Mark Ellingson Hall building) in which approximately 60% of the students on the floor will be dhh and the other 40% are hearing. The reason for this is the logical one of simply not wanting to isolate the dhh students on a floor of all hearies when deafies are otherwise in the minority on the campus.

As for the winter, yes we get a lot of snow. Lake effect is in full force in the winter. For people like me who love snow, this is a good thing. If you don't like snow and come to RIT, bring a heavy coat and learn to hibernate.
 
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