So I ' m gonna pop in here and give my opinion . klamberly ' s opinion is quite relevant , but she ' s also one of the few handful of students who was very successful and even had an article written about her for NJIT . I ' m more relevant to the typical student cause I tend not to sheath my opinion in Optimism . School There are many parts to a school . Primary purpose ? Education . You are going to receive a damn good education here if that is your first priority , the challenging courses and research opportunities here are endless . That being said , it has to become your primary focus . Secondary reasons ? Friends amp experiences . One of the biggest reasons to attend this school . You can be of any culture , background , interest and if you put yourself out there , you will make a very good circle of friends . My first year as a resident was tough , cause I didn ' t try to do things . When I began work on campus my second year , things really started to change , although they were set in motion my second semester because I met one of my first NJIT friends there . You have to be open to new things , and trying them out . You get to learn about so many people , cultures , backgrounds . I was attending school around the time of the World Cup , and it was awesome to see my Portuguese , Greek and Nigerian study buddies banter about their teams in the World Cup . Tertiary reason ? The administration . The individuals themselves are great . You meet people who are really passionate about higher education being first generation college students themselves . But when dealing with campus politics and bureaucracy , that ' s when things get really fucking awful . It seems like a bunch of staff signed contracts that won ' t allow the school to get rid of them once they start mucking up the system . Many jokes are made about how a school full of number crunchers and tech geeks can ' t have faster WiFi or a Financial aid system that feels like the fucking DMV . uamysaygrr could tell you stories about dealing with politics while being lead editor on the vector . I ' m sure unjitslayer has had to deal with some bullshit too . We all see this shit and we all have to fight it one way or another . That ' s where we have an issue . Courses Disclaimer , because I fail to see the other MechE giving their background . Public High School education , not an athlete , theater stage hand and AV tech guy . I was a good student , 13347 in my class . SAT score 1780 . AP scores Calc 1 5 , Calc 2 4 , and I also went though a summer program hosted by NJIT to prepare us . So this is how NJIT went for me . My first semester , I used high school tactics , and it was a little stressful for me , but I managed 4 A ' s and 2 B ' s . My second semester I learned how to manage my time better after I got advice from a friend , all A ' s . My third semester is when I began some basics my MechE course , did well . Mostly A ' s maybe 1 B . Third semester I rocked it . All A ' s again . Having access to old exams and solution manuals help , but the professor seem to be catching on . Usually if you know enough people you can get you hands on study materials . This is where the effort needed changing . Fifth semester , which marks the beginning of junior year , I started to have to put more effort into my classes , they got tougher , but they were also mostly ME classes , 4 A ' s and 2 B ' s one which was almost a C . Second semester 4 A ' s and 2 B ' s But I was very stressed out . I lost 10 pounds , I broke out in Hives , I felt like someone had placed an anvil on my chest at times . CCaps free counselingtherapy came in really handy this point . It was hard , I ' m not gonna lie . But I had good study partners , very supportive . We are fucking warrior and I ' ll be damned if we don ' t graduate by May this year . We still put out high efforts , looking for jobs , working in projects , taking our final courses , but nothing will stop us for success . I ' ve had professor who were easy graders , but asshole with my wayhighway attitudes , I ' ve had professors who were hard to learn under but when I showed them concern and tried my best to participate , they curved my grade up a whole letter grade . I ' ve had easy teachers who I ended up bombing the final cause I didn ' t actually try to learn . I ' ve had professors who knew exactly what they were talking about and gave challenging homeworks and I learned so much , even acing the finals . Housing Not Bad . Freshman year I lived with a Partyer , a Slacker and an Eagle Scout . Partyer brought some life into the room with his tastes in music and friends , Slacker was a good person to let loose every now and then , and Eagle Scout was a really helpful guy who was a voice of reason at times where the partying got too excessive . Sophomore year Slacker moved out , Partyer dropped school and I became roommates with Eagle Scout . Which was great . He was a pretty disciplined guy and got me into both Top gear and The walking dead . It was nice coming to a room with a person completely separated from my work and school life . We played a lot of video games together and often ate together on the weekends catching up with each other . Junior year Eagle Scout moved to university center . I moved in with two of the closest people I had become friends with on campus , both excommuters , first time dorming . Let ' s call them Silly and Serious . Silly was like slacker but smart enough to pass classes with C ' s , didn ' t judge and was cool with talking about anything that was bothering you . Serious was a fucking Alpha who made me question my own masculinity with the amount of girls he attracted but he screwed my head on straight when I was anxious as fuck . But I did become both their confidant ' s under my own personal roommate code in where what we talk about in the room stays between us and we can ' t use it in jokes or shit about the other person . Even though this was my most stressful school year , it was one where I learned the most about social connections and how women are attracted to men . They were both like the older brothers I never had but always wanted . Senior year Living in a Single , not bad . Isolating , but freeing . Still living there . I ' ll let you know how it goes . Food You can see my posts in submissions needed sticky . But a quick recap . Don ' t trust the open houseexperience day . Rotisserie is not open on weekends , the food is marginal by your standards , but better than colleges around for miles . Your stomach may or may not get upset . If it doesn ' t congrats ! But their are a lot of choices , burgers , fries , chicken , eggs made to order , pancakes , waffles , deli sandwiches you can make yourself , a fivesix dish buffet , cereal , cakes , salad bar , 3 soft drink machines , and so much more that I can ' t add here . But just watch the timings ! This is not 24 hour ! Couple things I didn ' t want to add in the main body . My third year , I moved in last but my roommates found roaches . An RA on the inside told me it was cause the room wasn ' t really used over the summer , so it stagnated but we put in maintenance requests for pest spraying and bought our own roach traps . Only saw one roach in the entire rest of the year . The winter makes the campus look really sad and wet . Just dirty snow everywhere and shit . They hold a lot of events , A LOT , like RA ' s have to have mandatory events and so do clubs and societies and shit and their is so much to do on campus if you do what you want to do . Any other questions you have , comment away here and I ' ll answer . Edit I ' m not fixing the small spelling and grammar mistakes on my phone in this monolith of a post lol .