Schools were Ewing High School and Fisher Middle School

Honestly, you’re better off looking at certain sections of Paterson over East Orange and Irvington.

Also seems like you should be looking for a roommate to save money.

Put $700 a month into a secure investment & have a house down payment when you graduate.

What happened to mastodons, the strong, silent type?

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I grew up in Michigan and have always been a MSU fan. I lived a few minutes from campus and know probably hundreds of people who went there. It’s so surreal to see this happen so close to home, and then to also have this connection back to NJ where I live now (although not in the same area as the threats).

We had Mastodons. 🥹

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Rails to Trails, less high line. More hiking trail.

https://www.railstotrails.org/

https://www.traillink.com/trailsearch/

Try your local hospital. My husband was just referred to a neuropsychologist at Robert wood

It's honestly a question of if you want to focus on a specific area of physics, and what kind of campus activities you'd prefer.

I went to NJIT for chemistry and got an education a little more skewed towards chemical engineering and business than what I would have gotten at Rutgers. I was also involved with some on-campus clubs but a bulk of my social life was spent with my friends who went to RU, William Paterson, and Montclair.

tag yourself, I'm in Hyposarurus territory

I’m partial to Rutgers as I graduated from there in 2003. I started as an engineering student but discovered after two semesters it wasn’t for me. I was really glad I went to a large, academically diverse school where it wasn’t hard to find something I did want to do. I don’t know how NJIT would be with that, but I can vouch for Rutgers.

Plus it’s always nice to have bigger sports programs and alumni networking too.

Note, I have no experience or knowledge about NJIT. Based on the other responses comparing the two, I would say it comes down to how badly you want that $700.

I’m a Rutgers alum, and I would choose Rutgers because of everything else that comes with going there.

Rutgers has a club for everything, food and bar options, tons of sporting events you can get student tickets for, and a strong focus on research. I’m sure you’d be able to do an undergrad thesis at RU, which would give you a great leg up in regard to getting into grad school too.

Ignoring reputation, I think RU has better options.

Rutgers. I know one of the professors. He wrote the text on HOW physicists should teach other physicists

I recommend Rutgers. Statistics show 93 percent of students end up graduating with a major that is different from what they applied to colleges with. So you might change your mind. If you do Rutgers have everything you can possibly change to. If you don’t change your mind, Rutgers physics is just as good as NJIT.

A misunderstanding on my end, apologies.

Rutgers is the better school. My graduate school advisor (Rutgers) liked to say that "for undergrad you want the school name\reputation. For graduate school, it is all about who you work for." I think that is largely true. I also do not think that it matters much in this debate. Rutgers is better but it isn't like you are comparing the Princeton Physics Department to RVCC here.

Do you have any idea what type of physics you want to do? Are there any NJIT professors that specialize in that? Any Rutgers profs? Your potential specialty for grad school and your undergrad desires matter in the choice. I didn't look through the undergrad physics catalogs for both schools, those offerings need to play a role here.

So on the surface, pocket the extra $700 and go to NJIT. Need more info to answer fully. Also, should you choose the "wrong" one for you, it should be pretty easy to transfer to the other.

They were saying that NJIT students went to RU Newark for Physics classes. Busch is RU New Brunswick (ok Piscataway) so not sure how your question is relevant.

Physics is still on Busch for Rutgers - New Brunswick.

NJIT sits right next to RU-Newark, I believe there is some ability to take classes at each school.

NJIT alum here. Great school, not a great area, but the campus is pretty nice. Moderately active community. Rutgers may have a more lively student body. but I have my heart with NJIT so I'm biased. Hanging out in the campus center and library is fun, great gym facilities.

of course, this is a gigantic waste of money already. The high line works because it's in fuckin NYC.

there's also almost certainly contamination there. And this goes over several bridges that will need to be repaired

investing into existing parks would have been a much better spend than this shit

No joke but Stockton University has a pretty deep physics department

What happened to Busch campus, no more physics?

Honestly Rutgers and NJIT are comparable here. I’d choose the money and go to NJIT. Plus if you’re going to go to grad school it’s not really gonna matter where you did your undergrad