Skiing + surfing + college = ???

LOONmtn_skier

LOONmtn_skier

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Im a junior in high school and im looking at good liberal arts colleges in the North East. Anyone go to college, ski alot, and perhaps surf too?!?!
I really really want to be able to ski and surf on the weekends while i attend college.
Colleges ive been looking at include Bowdoin, UVM, Saint Mike's, Colby, Saint Joe's, and Middlebury (long shot but a dope school)
anyone go to any of those colleges???
+k for help
 
wellll i go to UVM...lotta skiing but no surfsame with colby and st. mikesdont even think colby has much good skiing close by either
 
I go to colby and it fucking rocks. Such a great school. Sugarloaf is about an hour away and is the best mountain in new england for REAL skiing in REAL mountains. jokes aside, its a sick mountain, has gnarly terrain, a good park that is getting better, and real chill locals. there is surfing like an hour from colby, and we have a really active surf club who does trips nearly every weekend. As far as colleges are concerned, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Dartmouth, and Middlebury are your best bets for skiing, but Middlebury has no surfing near it. Colby has the best skiing and surfing I would say, seeing as it is closest to the best spots of those schools. Again, I am pretty biased, so take that as you will.
 
im goin to be a sorphmore at st joes, its a pretty dope, easy as heck. hit me up if you come up for a tour ill let you know all the important shit the guides leave out,

its an hour from sunday, i convently am the vicepresident of the ski club,

we got a lake. security blows,
 
probably a long shot, but do any of you NSer's out there run Track for some college???? I remember reading a thread a while back where a bunch of NSers were talkin about their track and field seasons.
I plan on running Track in college hopefully. Anyone out there run track at a college in Northern New England???
 
colby, bowdoin, or even UNH. then if you wanna go more for surfing and look south you could look at schools in RI, CT, or even So. Mass. salve regina, ConnColl, or random little schools in MA near the cape or south shore
 
^ im gonna disagree with UNH. definitely do not go there..heard some bad things about it. id stick with maine schools.
 
my brother runs for Colby. hes a sprinter and throws javelin too. Loves the team. I hang with them a lot and they are a great group. the coaches are super dedicated and approachable and all the athletes are super nice. they get some kids to DIIIs and nationals every year too, so its a decent program. hit me up if you want more info.
 
I'm just going to say the as far as skiing and fun are concerned, UVM is probably the best on the EC.

That said, we have terrible track program and no close ocean. Lots of cliff jumping and wake boarding.
 
I personally went to UMass Amherst, I was 45 minutes from Mount Snow, but no surf. If you want to get some waves in and have a sick ass mountian to hit up too go to either UNH, UNE, or Plymoth or even Colby (the much mor expensive option of the bunch). UNH is right near Portsmouth, NH, you have loon right there for the winter time and just a sick place to live. I work in Porstmouth and it's an awesome town to spend the summer in. Chew on that for a bit. Or if you just want to party your ass off, lose the surf (or at least not go as much) and have Mount Snow right up 91 then go to UMass and have the best 4 years of your life...or 5 if you're really enjoyin git.
 
OH I almost forgot....midlebury might look good on paper but once you get there you're gonna hate your self for choosing it. My buddy from HS went there and played football but the rest of his time spent there REALLY blew. I visited once and didn't really enjoy myself.
 
i'm so one of those awesome locals, if not, most of the park kids are a bunch of GODDAMNKNUCKLEHEADS
 
thanks guys. Right now, Im really liking Bowdoin and Colby. Ive compared my race times w/ college meet results from the NESCAC league and im right on my way to what i need (as a sophmore, my 400m times matched up with the guys coming in some of the last positions). I still have 2 more years to get my times down a bunch too
They both look really good for skiing and surfing!
As for the whole "getting into said college" goes, it might be tough....I take honors/AP level classes and do well, but hopefully ill be good enough in track that theyll be really interested in having go to their school
 
I think you are underestimating the amount of effort it will take to be surfing from bowdoin and especially colby. if you go to bowdoin, you'd pretty much have to drive south about 30 miles to the closest spot, old orchard beach. if you go to colby, you probably would never surf, unless your determined enough to drive more than 70 miles each way to and from the beach.

my advice would be to not base your school choice around surfing or skiing, seeing as you plan on doing a collegiate sport, which will take up a ton of your time between classes and homework.
 
that said, there are few better colleges in the country than colby and bowdoin, and the fact that there is skiing and surfing even remotely close by is a big pull. I have friends who go surfing every weekend from september to november and then march on, so there will always be people down for the trek.
 
exactly. School first, then team sports, then skiing, then surfing.
The whole point of this thread was to see if it was possible to go to a college where skiing + surfing was possible, but i forgot what is really important... doing well in college (and possibly college track)
.......and i have a while to apply (hopefully get in) and then make a decision
its a ways away. Thanks for all the help guys
 
How can an opinion of my budies time spent there and my vists there sucking be untrue? Do you go there or are you just defending it because you know someone who does or one of your parents did? The schools sucks man, it's not fun and it's just a bunch of stuck up pricks and cold girls that won't talk to you if you don't have a g for her to bump off of or free booze. Get real d00dson.
 
The fact that you are calling the entire school a bunch of stuck up pricks shows you have no fucking clue what your talking about. Apparently in your one night there you interacted with the entire school to come up with a definitive generalization of all the students No i didn't go there but my brother did and i spent plenty of time at middlebury with him on the weekends and i can personally say alot of the kids are nothing like you described them. Get learned bucksh0t!!??!?
 
I'm not sure if you're educated at all but according to sociological research different PERSONAL experiences help us to create our own OPINIONS about certain subject matter. In this case I had a a few weekends with sub-par experiences with my buddy that went there. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself with the broiest dudes in the world and the most stuck up girls that only talk to guys that can buy them whatever they want on a whim. Again, these are my experiences and MY OPINIONS. Lets remember this thread was created to help this kid make a decision on what school to go to, not for you to cry when i trounce on your brothers over-priced college. If you want to get at me about any more weak shit then PM me and let this kid figure out what school he wants to go to.
 
I am trying to help this kid figure out what school to go to. In the offchance that he is stupid enough to listen to your bullshit i'm trying to set the record straight that middlebury is an excellent school and isn"t full of "stuck up pricks". Do you really think you're in a position to even make that remark anyway, being there for one day? Spread your nonsense elsewhere.
 
it sounds to me that you are one of the stuck up pricks that bvt803 refers too. he sounds rational and calm, whereas you are attacking him in an illogical, unimpressive, and most of all, a very obnoxious manner
 
University of Rhode Island.

Has a ton of off-campus housing by the beech in narragansett (arguably home of the best surfing in new england). my friend's back yard is the ocean, where some decent waves break. he pays $500 a month plus utilities. there are at least a dozen surf spots within half an hour and at least 6 are right there in narragansett.

if you live in the south end by eastward, block after block is filled with college students and there are house parties everywhere. its pretty cool. if you grew up in the suburbs, its like high school without parents. instead of walking to your friends' dorms, you drive or bike a couple blocks away and you chill in a house instead of a small appartment style dorm with ras.

as far as skiing goes, yagoo is the next town over, but it sucks. wachusett is only an hour and fifteen minutes away and mount snow/southern vt mountains are 3 hours away. there is also a snowboard/ski club that goes to areas all over new england and they usually make an anual trip to mount tremblant.

if you skateboard, there are 3 skateparks within 15 minutes of narragansett and a nice indoor park 25 minutes away.
 
I appologize that I upset you and broke your cool over an opinion of mine spread out over 3 separate 3 night stays (I bet you can even do the math on that one). I can bet you that you've been somewhere a few times and didn't enjoy yourself and came to create your own opinion about the place and the people you interacted with because something made you not like it.
So let me retroactively make this comment: This school wasn't for me, I didn't like the people, but to the kid who started to this thread I am only giving you advice based on my personal experience and you can take it or leave it. URI has been made as a suggestion and from my experiences being in the area where my family lives it's a pretty sick spot and I've heard good things about the place. The kid I sit next to at work went there and loved it and surfed every day after class he said.

 
you shouldn't have had a problem either way. i had an opinion, I voiced it and you came back and attacked it like i was slandering you or something. If you're gonna disagree with an opinion then do it, don't backlash because it makes you out to be an ass.
be constructive, not destructive.
 
read your previous posts and take your own advice. How were any of your posts constructive? Blah blah blah i was making my own opinion. Well i"m here telling you your opinions are unfounded.
 
Dude get a grip and stop acting defiant and mighty. Jump down off your high horse and take a freakin chill pill. You cannot claim that I have unfounded opinions as I am speaking from personal experience.
Oh and by the way, do you think before you write because opinions require no proof as they are thoughts of an individual based on personal experience....I could say that you're probably a real PAB in person but that's just my opinion based on your asinine responses on this thread but you and maybe some other people you know won't agree. Just sayin.
Oh, and PM me form now on because I'm making you look silly.
 
cute argument you two ^. but back to the OP, I'm in very much the same boat, and in fact one of the most ongoing dilemmas of my life is where to get educated/settle where I can find ocean and mountains. Globally, Chile, New Zealand and maybe British Columbia are some of the top picks.However, the same problem occurs domestically. Bowdoin and Colby are my top two choices for the east, and I'm really pumped about the surf club at colby. great school and I have a couple friends there. Out west, CC looks good, but not a fan of the desert climate and major commuter problems to get to the mountains. Also, the closest resorts (breck, keystone) don't much appeal. Anyone heard of Whitman college in Washington state? Kind of hilly wheat fields, but idaho has some great whitewater and fly fishing, Hood river is 3 hours away (sick wind-driven action sports community), the coast is 5 hours, and Bluewood is an hour, but has some moderate skiing, and BC (no explanation needed) is 7ish hours. Not great location, but a bit of everything.Where else?
 
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Go to U Maine Fahmington

/jokes

I'd suggest Colby as it's not far from the slopes, and not far from the ocean, and has great academics.
 
if your into surfing, you really dont want to be more than 20 minutes from the ocean or else you will be surfing all the shitty days and the people in the surf clubs will most likely be gaper surfers. i would reccomend uri or unh, which are both close to the ocean.
 
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