Questions, Confusion, Geology Major

zannah
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:18:26 +0000

I agree with the post who suggested your daughter go west. Absolutely. The western states like Colorado and Wyoming have tons of rocks and need and do water management. Colorado School of Mines (mines.edu) is in the foothills just west of Denver. Just the first page of the website is pretty fabu. Golden has the advantages of Denver, location on the eastern slope of the Rockies and proximity to Coors. The area around Denver has multiple colleges so your daughter would live in nice area with more opportunities and social, recreational, and cultural amenities than found in a college town. It seems like Mines/Denver/Wyoming are alien dark side of the moon kind of places when you grew up in the East, but people from this area enjoy theatre, music, good food, libraries, paved streets, electricity, television, internet, professional football, etc. If anyone is off to Denver, please visit the Museum of Natural History in City Park, Denver because it is one of the great museums in the world. There is an excellent section about minerals where the exhibit looks like it’s in a mine.