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Originally Posted by Alan A
Good school. Crap area. Expensive.
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Yes that is my 10 second impression. Nothing to do but study though, which I guess not always bad. Winters are probably brutal there.
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Originally Posted by otto_kretschmer
The "college" experience for engineers is doing homework six days a week. A friend who went to MIT called it akin to drinking from a firehose.
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Yeah that is a factor. Some of these schools don't care if the kids make it through. Just getting the bad luck of 2 crappy professors in on semester could tank a student regardless of their effort/smartness/hard work. I've seen that w/ some friends kids so my antennae are up on that. I picture the movie "Real Genius" from the 80s LOL.
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Originally Posted by cstreit
Good feedback. We're definitely going to visit. Wifey and I want to retire to Colorado so that does hold some sway with us. The whole family loves Colorado so what seems every day for you may be more magical for us haha.
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We like it here, I am a CO native. Since we share a hobby I can tell you that CO is very isolated for participating in motorsports. Long tow to any big track. HPR and Pueblo are fun tracks, but small time. We are thinking of retiring in Park City UT. Similar to CO, can still ski, and UMC is nearby with the tow to west coast tracks 6-8 hours less than from CO. Closer distance between skiing and a major airport there too. As far as Mines, it is a good school but personally when I go there I feel like I'm at a big community college, not on a University campus.