Get Connected with Wellness on Campus

RIT Wellness is here to help you develop a healthy lifestyle, social interaction, and leadership skills. There are many ways to get connected with Wellness on campus.

Recreation
RIT is home to some of the finest recreational facilities at the college level, today. If you’re interested in playing your favorite sport, trying out a new activity, or making friends with similar interests, check out intramurals and club sports.

Spring intramural registration is open until Jan. 30. – sign up now to secure your spot on a team at recreation.rit.edu! Offerings include:

Plus, the Center for Recreational Sports is offering a 10-week, 2 person team best ball golf league on the golf simulator! Participants will get to reserve 1 hour per week for their team to complete their round. This is an evening league, with tee times ranging from 4pm-11pm, Monday- Friday. 

It might be chilly outside, but you can still get your climb on at Red Barn Climbing! This is a fun way to get moving and try something new on campus! Learn more about the Red Barn, including fees, here.

NEW! Check out BakerFIT: a 24-hour fitness center and group exercise studio available to all RIT students, faculty, and staff via swipe card access. BakerFIT is located in the tunnels under Baker Hall, between Gracies and Kate Gleason Hall. The space includes:

• Cardio equipment
• Dumbells and pin driven weight machines
• Reservable small group fitness studio
• Two all-gendered restrooms

Education
Wellness Education and Outdoor Education, combined, offer over 400 wellness-related classes each year. There is a large variety of courses available for you to choose from, including Zumba, Juggling, Stress Management, Maple Syrup and our Environment, and more. Students are required to take two wellness classes prior to graduation, but there is no limit to the number of class you can take!

Events and Programs
Health Promotion hosts a variety of events and programs throughout the academic year, focused on health education, skill development, and opportunities for growth. Topics range from alcohol and cannabis education, mental wellness and social connection, to sexual health education, and stress and sleep management. You can find upcoming Wellness events below or by checking out the RIT Events Calendar.

Place a Play It Safe Kit Order

Looking for a more personalized safer-sex supply pick-up? Place a Play It Safe Kit order today! Play It Safe is an online ordering system for RIT students to order cost-free safer sex supplies. Once you place your order, you can select a pick-up location that works best for you. When your order is ready, you will receive an email notification to pick-up your supplies (which come in a concealed bag for discrete pick-up).

Supplies may vary. We will do our best to accommodate specific requests based on our current inventory.

Each week, we are sharing a financial wellness tip to help you make the connection between financial management decisions, your overall wellness, and student success. Money touches every aspect of our lives, and a lack of financial literacy can cause unnecessary stress and negatively impact our mental and physical health.

Budgeting Your Meal Plan and Groceries

Perhaps better managing your meal plan or grocery budget was one of your New Year’s resolutions made this January.  If so, here are some helpful tips for doing so.

• Use Available Resources – RIT Dining has some excellent resources to help students know how much of their Dining Dollars they have spent, and approximately how much they should be allotting per week to spend down their meal plan over the semester.  Checking the MEAL PLAN SPEND DOWN chart often can help alert you if you are potentially overspending, and need to adjust some of your habits. Be sure to download the RIT Mobile app so you can access Tiger Spend which allows you to check your dining dollar and Tiger Bucks balance, see recent transactions, set a low balance warning notification which will email up to 4 people you select to receive the notice when you hit an amount you determine, and request funds to be added to your account, and enter a person to be notified.
  
  
• Trim Expenses – If you notice that you are spending a lot of your Dining Dollars/TigerBucks or grocery budget on things like Starbucks, Java Wally’s, or deliveries from Uber Easts – make some small changes that could add up to some big savings.  For example, brew your own coffee and take it with you on campus – purchase the coffee at Aldi’s, Walmart or Price Rite or use the RIT membership at BJ’s (just bring your student ID) and get it significantly cheaper.  Cutting out purchasing one coffee or latte a day could save you approximately $15-$25 a week. Over a semester – that could be a savings of $240-$400!  Did you know that if you bring your own clean, reusable cup to various RIT Dining locations that you can save on the purchase of hot tea or brewed coffee? Such a small act can save you money and help RIT reduce waste.
  
  
• Make Savings A Game – Challenge your friends to see who can save the most.  There are lots of ways to save on groceries and food.  Sign up for the Ibotta app and upload your grocery receipt to earn cash back on purchases you make.  Be sure to sign up for rewards and shopper’s savings programs at stores you frequent the most such as Top’s Bonus Card and Wegman’s Shoppers Club.  They provide discounts to members and sometimes exclusive digital or bonus coupons that can significantly reduce your grocery expenditures. Utilize paper coupons from the Sunday paper on top of any sale prices or membership discounts and you can really start to stack the savings!

Don’t forget to check out the Financial Literacy website, and/or follow the team on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

For additional events and event information, go to rit.edu/events.