Ashley
the school size is ok, ppl think its cool to go to URI. Most of my time is spent in my dorm or the dining halls or other peoples dorms. I think most of the teachers are ok.
Gina
There is a lot of school pride associated with URI, but our football team sucks so do not expect a big deal about homecoming. Basketball is a big deal to us. The people that do not like URI are usually not involved. To fully get the URI experience you need to be Greek, on a sports team or good friends with one of the above. URI is all about socializing. When the weather is nice everyone is out on the quad or at the beach studying and tanning. There is not much to do around URI besides go to the beach, movies, out to eat or the bar. Providence is the closest "big city" and its approx. 45 min away. URI is a perfect size. There is enough people so you feel like you are at college, but not too many you feel overwhelmed. The campus is also a decent size and you may have to do a lot of walking depending on where your classes are. The emporium has a CVS and many food places that deliver until 2 or 3am so you do not need to go off campus if you don't have a car.
Brenden
The best thing about URI is the fact that is it is such a large school but the on campus student population is about half if not smaller than the amount of people that go to the school so at the same time you still feel like you are on a very small campus. It would be nice is housing were actually able to provide proper amounts of housing for every student that wished to live on campus, and if some of the technological factors of the school were updated, such as the email and website systems. There is a lot of school pride, but due to the fact of large amounts of budget cuts many varsity sports were dropped down to club status and the football team who has yet to see a win in like probably 20 seasons has seen very little if no budget cuts while sports who do well and probably bring in a larger crowd than football receive all of the cuts.
Kelly
the students are very comunity organized and freindly with each other and work together in their classes and curriculum the clases are very demanding
Alicia
Best thing is being near the beach...winters suck. Parking services is a bitch...you will get towed atleast once at URI. Large school but it sems small sometimes because alot of people know each other freshmen year. Live off campus soph year and after.
Lorie
Its a very fun place to be. Unfortunately the weather is not good at all during the winter months. There are a lot of great people here but there are a handful of kids that you wonder how they got into college at all.
Morgan
most frequent complaints: there are a ton of commuters, parking is always an issue, you will never hear the end of it. people can't get spots and if they do they leave their house at 9AM when they don't have class until 11...and they live 15 minutes away. try to use public transportation as much as possible, especially if it works well w/ your schedule!
biggest current controversy: orange sticker policy- kids who live off campus and throw parties get warning stickers on their doors in narragansett if the cops get called, its ridiculous. however, this year all those kids who got stickers ended up getting brought to some fancy party by like red bull or something and got free drinks all night (this isnt made up) so maybe it's worth it..?
David
Overall, its a nice looking campus. Its big, but not huge. You can easily get lost in the crowd if you'd rather, or you can get involved and be really high profile. There isn't much to do on campus though, except party, and the surrounding towns of kingston, wakefield, and narragansett don't offer much else.
Kelly
i like going to URI i think we are a very divided campus in alot of ways and the different organizations do not work together and make the campus more united. I think the recent budget cuts were unfair to almost everyone and those who are not concerned just dont realise how ti will affect them in the long run. One this i dislike is the clothing trend among girls- northface jackets and tights and ugg boots...the most ridiculus outfit i can think if, but URI is good.....WAIT! please get more variety of food and cook it better pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee.... because its sickening
Andrew
Best thing about URI: When you move off campus, your not moving to some little shitty house... you are moving to a house that is blocks from the beach. When the weather gets nicer you can do your work and hang out on the beach