A group of talented students at the Rochester Institute of Technology has just released a video about the destruction in Haiti. They put in over 70 hours of work into this philanthropic effort and would appreciate your help making this video go viral.

Your help will remind people that the problem in Haiti has not gone away. Do not let people forget!

Here the link to the YouTube page.

After our brief class discussion that took place yesterday, I wanted to check out exactly how many forums had been started as a result of RIT President Destler's desicion to change from quarters to a semester system. I was able to locate 5 groups that have been created since the announcement through Facebook. The largest group, which I joined because the name is intriguing, is "In Loving Memory of the RIT Quarter System," which has 2,109 current members. The other groups include; "RIT doesn't care what I think," "Bad Decision Destler," "RIT Semester System Protest," and "I'm not giving back to an RIT with Semesters," all of which have between 750 and 50 members respectively.

Besides all of these groups being against semesters, the majority of them are also promoting the idea of not giving back to RIT once we're graduated as a result of their switching to semesters. I feel that this idea is ruthless and ludacris as RIT is not infringing upon current students ability to succeed after graduation.

In addition, through these sites I was able to locate 2 different petitions, both of which have under 200 signatures. But, the most surprising post on these sites was RIT's past president, President Simone's decision back in 2000 to retain the quarter system and his reasons for doing so. The data collected from students, faculty, and staff back in 2000 appears to be no different than the data collected this past year in 2009. So why exactly is RIT making the switch? I believe it's simply because we have a different President who is interpreting the results in a different way.

I don't agree nor do I disagree with the decision President Destler has made. I just know that in the past 4+ years I've spent here, I wouldn't have minded semesters. But alas, I only have a week left at RIT before I'll be done for good, so you won't hear me complaining.

Check out the Facebook group In Loving Memory of the RIT Quarter System

I am a part of Student Government at RIT and Barry Culhane gave us a presentation on ImagineRIT last Friday at Senate. I just wanted to share with you all that Dr. Culhane stated that he was going to be utilizing predominantly social media to create interest in ImagineRIT this year, NOT print media.

I thought this was cool because it shows how RIT too is excited about innovative use of technology and that RIT too understands the importance and evolution of social media in this day and age.

At this website, you can check out the social media options ImagineRIT will be operating on this year: http://www.rit.edu/imagine/social_media.html

I know that for instance, Barry Culhane and Andreww Quagliata are documenting clips of projects they liked from last year and posting videos on them on YouTube, so check it out!