Why did you choose Mines?

Coloradomama
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:40:30 +0000

Cal Poly offers more majors, all major engineering disciplines, including business and social sciences and solid biology, but not as many on campus research opportunities. Cal Poly is strictly an undergraduate school with a fine reputation and good connections to jobs in California. Mines has PhDs programs and research opportunities with National Renewable Energy Labs, National Institute of Standards and actual research on campus. Miens has a FANTASTIC physics department with highly regarded faculty. Mines has an emphasis on teaching with faculty who are payed to teach and tenured for TEACHING, and other faculty payed to do research, so they allow professors to specialize in teaching or research. Cal Poly is in a very small town with a jail, and a beach not too far away. Yes San Luis Obispo is cute, but I think sort of dull? Golden is a nice town and has light rail to all the action of Denver, 20 minutes away but very accessible. Boulder is 20 miles north if a Mines student gets bored! Mines is near the best hiking and skiing on the planet outside of Utah! I would say for location, Mines wins. After all, Santa Barbara is a VERY long hitch hike from San Luis Obispo. Its a bit expensive to get to San Luis Obispo by airplane. Easy to fly to Denver and bus to Golden.