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I'm a Junior this year so I've begun looking at colleges and am pretty interested in Colorado state but just have a few questions is Fort Collins a chill place to live? and how close is the local mountain to the campus?
 
I love fort collins, i dont live there anymore but it was awesome when i did. Great college town, you have will have a blast. Its not super close to summit county, about 2 hrs to keystone, breck etc...
 
I graduated fromt here. FoCo is a great place to live. Tons of outdoors near town. Backcountry skiing 1.5 hours away. Resort skiing 2 hours away. Great school too. Just pissed they're building a new stadium.
 
I would recommend boulder. It's a really fun place a good education and a bit closer to the mountains. If you're considering engineering or a science degree consider Colorado school of Mines. They are really close to I-70 (the highway that will take you to summit county) and they offer most our of state kids a scholarship (most get 12,000 a year). The only thing is Colorado school of Mines really does live up to its reputation of being full of nerdy, prudish, depressed engineers and a school populated mostly by guys (3 guys to 1 girl). That being said not everybody here is that awful and we have a pretty legit ski community. Also boulder/denver, beautiful women/parties aren't far away (and the bus will take you there).

hope this helps
 
Don't do BROulder. Anything in Denver over Boulder anyday. And only do Mines if you're a super nerd. I have 3 different friends who didn't even know each other who transferred out of Mines cuz the hated the school and people there.
 
the auraria campus is like a commuter school, and no way does DU get down like boulder. If you want to party you'd be a fool to choose a school in Denver over Boulder.
 
"Don't do BROulder. Anything in Denver over Boulder anyday. And only do Mines if you're a super nerd. I have 3 different friends who didn't even know each other who transferred out of Mines cuz the hated the school and people there."

Dude mines kids are not that bad. People think we're all nerds, and there are definitely some rad people at this school. Lorax I challenge you to a game of trick.
 
I never said there's not cool people at Mines. I know some cool people that went there. I said that you shouldn't go there unless you're a nerd and that I knew people who couldn't take the atmosphere there. Nothing wrong with being a nerd. I'm a nerd too, just not an engineering nerd.

And fuck a competition, let's just ski together. Being a good skier has no bearing on how cool you are.
 
I'm saying you don't have to be a nerd to go to mines and to don't need to be a nerd to fit in at Mines. Maybe you have to be smart and maybe you can't be lazy, but you don't need to play World of warcraft, star craft, league of legends, enjoy redit, online comics or other stereotypical nerd activities to enjoy mines.

Maybe our definitions of nerd differ, but I imagine a nerd as some one socially and/or physically awkward, bad at sports, and into some of the previously mentioned activities. I wouldn't say that pursuing an engineering/science degree automatically makes some one a nerd.

Yes, mines has a large percentage of people who fit my description of a nerd, but we also have large climbing, skiing, biking, slacklining, and kayaking communities. If you can't take the atmosphere then you probably never fell into one of those groups, or you just don't want to work hard enough at school.

And yes a friendly competition to show that one can attend a decent school with a nerdy reputation and still be good a sports (or at least skiing) does not sound unreasonable to me. you're description of mines made it sound like a shitty place for people who aren't nerds. A competition gives the person in the argument some credibility. If you say don't go to mines because its full of nerds and my friends hated it so much they had to transfer and you completely destroy me in competition newschoolers could make the assumption: "ShastownSoldier must be another one of those nerdy mines kids who sucks at skiing and spends all this time studying because that is what nerds and mines do, I can't trust his opinion". But if I were to beat you after defending the outdoor enthusiasts at mines then one could draw the conclusion that non-nerdy people can enjoy a college experience at mines.

So i guess what i wanted to say was: yes, whiles mines isn't for everyone, it is not only for nerds either.

By the way if you don't want to do the competition that's chill. You probably live a busy adult life (hell you might have kids), but this kid definitely has time. I'll be making laps tomorrow, friday and Saturday and maybe Sunday with some mines kids at keystone's area 51 wearing black pants and a blue sessions jacket. If you wanna play a game of trick or just ski with us you're more than welcome to.

 
Actually Boulder was my first choice but unfortunately you need 3 years of a foreign language and I'm barley making it through Spanish 2
 
yea CSU is awesome it might be a little farther from than mountains than boulder but not more than 30 mins.It takes 1.5-2 hours to go to keystone and 2-2.5 hours to get to breck

definetely get the epic local pass or epic pass

try to get into corbett, parmalee or the towers preferably corbett definetely the best party dorm and the coolest people!
 
False ;) Fort Collins is just as close to the mountains as any other front range city, there just are no ski areas close by. OP, if you want to get to the mountains for everything besides resort skiing, Fort Collins is as good, if not better than denver/boulder. Shits not as run down here...

 
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