Questions, Confusion, Geology Major

twoinanddone
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 06:06:13 +0000

Low graduation rates for 4 years, but go up significantly for 6 years, as do many engineering schools. Wyoming is the only 4 year public college in the state, so a lot of students do have to attend, go home for a while and build up more funds, take some classes on line, return, etc. Also, Wyoming has a very big travel abroad program and some students then have to spend an extra semester or year on campus. It’s actually a pretty small school for a flagship, not every class is offered every semester or even every year, so you have to plan ahead if there is something you want to take. My daughter will be one of the 80% who doesn’t graduated in 4 years because she’s leaving to do an internship next semester(not for school credit), and will probably go abroad for a semester or more. It’s only 2 hours from the Denver Airport, so not really the boonies. I’ll bet there aren’t many direct flights from Austin TX to where you live in NY. My niece has been living in Montana this past year and air travel takes some planning, but she’s been able to get to all kinds of places, like Montreal, Hawaii, and Cabo.

CU is a party school. I went there when we were winning awards for being the BEST party school. I still sat next to a guy at graduation who had a 4.0 and was headed to medical school (and I’d had many beers with him over the years). It is a really great school and just like any school, you can go to parties if you want to or find other things to do if you don’t. Many students are into the healthy lifestyle of Whole Foods and hiking, organic gardening, and abstaining from the evils of drink and pot. Did a lot of partying at School of Mines in my day too. At that time, CSM was about 90% male, so we’d go down for parties (4 of my sorority sisters married Mines boys). The boys partied from 5 o’clock on Friday night until Sunday morning, when they went back into study mode. Engineers aren’t known for spontaneity. Scheduled fun.