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Architectural colleges

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Celone
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my plans are to become an architect or an engineer, so i was wondering what the best colleges are for architecture or engineering where i can still ski a lot, preferably the west, i probably will go to UNR just because i live in reno and i can get a free ride all the way through to UNR. 

but still just wondering about any other colleges with engineering.

i searchbarred and found threads, but none were talking about ski colleges also.

Feb 26 2008 11:15PM
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mitchin
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virginia tech has a realy good program
Feb 26 2008 11:17PM
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GGreene
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the school of mines in colorado is a super good engeneering school
Feb 26 2008 11:18PM
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dan.b
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unless your super talented, you will probably not ski that much if you go to an engineering school. I guess some place are worst than others...
Feb 26 2008 11:32PM
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Celone
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also, could you tell me how far away the closest mountains are from each college
Feb 26 2008 11:36PM
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skier_boy26
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University of washington has good skiing, but a competitive entry, and requires a masters for a professional degree.
MSU has a pretty big program, 5 year professional. Great if you dig pow; bridger bowl, big sky, etc.
U of U has one... but... haven't heard much about it at all. Pre-professional bachelors. But really good proximity to skiing.
UC boulder has decent proximity. Strange program though, from what I hear.

Thats all architecture, though. There are other schools, of course. Don't know about engineering programs.

Feb 26 2008 11:37PM
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bibs_skibum
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montana state has a great architecture program and engineering program.  Bridger bowl, big sky, and moonlight basin are all super close too.  check it out
Feb 26 2008 11:40PM
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Feb 26 2008 11:41PM
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Feb 26 2008 11:41PM
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jimmychung
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northeastern university has great architecture and engineering programs
Feb 26 2008 11:44PM
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Celone
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skiing is pretty much my life...all i do revolves around skiing.
Feb 26 2008 11:49PM
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Aenigma
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I'm doing architecture at MSU right now and it's awesome, but don't plan on doing much skiing.  Architecture consumes your life; there have been numberous times where I haven't had enough time to eat or sleep.  It's a really rewarding program, but it takes a lot of commitment. 
Feb 26 2008 11:59PM
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ATLskier
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I agree 100%

Im at Georgia Tech in architecture, and it takes most of your life.  I still find time to ski(18 days so far this season, the most I've ever had, in the hardest year I've ever had too).  You'll pull all nighters a lot, and you really have to love architecture to do it.  You will be giving up a good amount of skiing(unless the program is not that great and is not very demanding), but it is def. worth it.  As much as it can suck being far away from decent skiing, Im glad to be in a really good program(No 5 in the country) rather than a program that isn't as good that has better skiing.  I've pretty much accepted that I will not have much skiing for 5 years, and once I get out, I will ski bum for a coupe years, then find a firm near the mountains.  I think it really comes down to what you love more.  For me, it's about the same for both.  If you want info on Ga tech specifically, let me know.  Closest skiing is 3 hours away.  this place, www.appterrainpark.com is a little over 4 hours away.
Feb 27 2008 12:26AM
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coolhandluke
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there's about 20,000 more reasons to be a civil engineer than an architect


Feb 27 2008 12:45AM
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ontwosticks
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It is a super good engineering school. It's also 80% male and most people don't go there hoping to get some skiing in...they go there to get a crazy good education. Not much party life, or greek life, or... you get the picture.
Feb 27 2008 1:02AM
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dan.b
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so true...
Feb 27 2008 9:11AM
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pdubs113
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Montana State University has a really good engineering and architecture program. The architecture program is pretty competitive. Bridger Bowl is 16 miles away and takes like 20 minutes to get there. Big Sky is 44 miles away and takes like 50 minutes to get to. Im a sophomore here and really like it. PM me if you have any questions or anything.
Feb 27 2008 3:28PM
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GGreene
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i know all of that but it was the only  engineering school i could think of in the west
i would never want to go there for all of those reasons (but i also can't because my grades suck)
Feb 27 2008 6:13PM
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treesmann
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im a freshman at mines. it pretty much sucks balls and i think im gonna transfer but the skiing is awesome. closest legit school to breck and keystone
Feb 27 2008 6:23PM
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breckfreeskier
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I looked at that school and I realized there are absolutely no girls there. It really is a dudefest which kinda blows. Good education though
Feb 27 2008 6:23PM
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treesmann
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good decision....

as i said, im a freshman at colorado school of mines and the only good thing about it is that its the closest front range college to the ski areas
Feb 27 2008 6:27PM
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breckfreeskier
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I couldn't sense the sarcasm. Are there any girls there? or was I right?
Feb 27 2008 6:29PM
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treesmann
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no girls
Feb 27 2008 6:38PM
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Celone
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how far is it away from keystone and breck?
Feb 27 2008 10:01PM
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treesmann
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1 hr to keystone no traffic, but traffic can double it occasionally
Feb 27 2008 10:16PM
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cottonwoodarmada1651
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University of Utah has a few really good engineering programs - nuclear reactor on campus even - but no architecture to my knowledge. But you'll be super close to a lot of sweet skiing.


Feb 28 2008 12:26AM
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mackinnon
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rhode island school of design (RISD) is a really good school for architecture, Syracuse, Carnegie Mellon, UMaine Orono has a really good engineering program
Feb 28 2008 1:03AM
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ATLskier
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U of utah has architecture
Feb 28 2008 1:05AM
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scurry4
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Honestly, dont expect to ski a ton in an architecture school. I am at wentworth in boston right now as a freshamn and its a ton of work, most good arch schools are in the east. Its really hard to find a college that has an accredited B.Arch program. wentworth has a huge one. Freshman class starts at about 300, then drops to about 75 by senior year supposeldy. Id say my class probably dropped 60 after first semester.
Feb 28 2008 2:00AM
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scurry4
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not really, it depends what your interested in. Although, you really have to be sure you want to be an architect if your going to do it. I originally looked at civil, but wanted something more creative and less technical.
Feb 28 2008 2:03AM
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coolhandluke
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so you pussied out?
Feb 28 2008 3:39AM
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Aenigma
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I spend about twice as much time on schoolwork as my friends in mechanical and civil engineering, so....yeah.  They're both really hard majors, but architecture is much more time-consuming (at least at MSU).
Feb 28 2008 10:37AM
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dan.b
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^it really depend on the university... we have endless project to do where I go a
Feb 28 2008 11:16AM
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scurry4
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Yeah if pussied out means spending atleast 2 all nighters a week, supposedly right now majoring in architecture is just as hard as law school, but thats what I hear.

me and anyone I know in arch, are working much harder than anyone in a engineering major at my school, which is all engineering and design.
Feb 29 2008 2:07AM
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pbandj
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not west coast but probably one of the best architecture schools in the country.... boston architect, it's on newbury street in boston which means great night life and social life, probably about an hour away from decent skiing but school is only four years, then settle out west with no worries about getting a job pretty much because it's such a well known and prestigious school for architecture

Feb 29 2008 2:37AM
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ATLskier
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Yeah its the same at georgia tech.

It's bad when an all nighter isn't bad.  It's when it gets to multiple all nighters that you start to get tired.

Architecture is no where near pussying out.  Some other majors may have a lot of hard subjects and a good bit to study for, but the work load for arch is insane.  My program has decreased prob 50% in the last year.  People constantly drop out(Which can be good if you need a new drafting board and other supplies cause you can get them super cheap or free). 


Most good arch schools are in the east.  Come to the east(although I think a few california schools have great programs), get a really good education.  then move out west and ski bum. 

I'm sacrificing 5 years of skiing for this shit, then ill move out west ski bum for a couple years, then start work or do grad school.  But even with a really hard work load and the hardest year I've had yet, I've still skied the most this year out of my entire life.  18 days(im from atlanta) so far with a minimum 3-4 hour drive one way.  Although I've chosen skiing over sleep, you can still ski(take advantage of spring break, winter break and summer).  I have to go back to studying stuff now.  It would be awesome to finish by 5 or 6.  This damn lumen method is killin me. 
Feb 29 2008 3:24AM
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Skipig25
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I looked at:
Montana State
Wentworth
UC Boulder
U of Utah.

Wentworth and MSU are by far the best programs for Arch. Boulder and U of Utah are sick schools (ok, Utah is...) but the arch programs aren't quite as good.

and arch and civil are pretty different, so decide what you want first. there are a lot more good engineering schools
Feb 29 2008 3:35AM
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coolhandluke
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any major can have all nighters.....accounting majors could if they had enough busy work from their prof

you know why things fall down in earthquakes?  architects making things pretty and messin up the dampening during seismic activity.



past graduation, architects quickly forget any technical engineering classes they took and focus on being an "artist" and start sippin syrup and then that codeine's got them making all kinds of crazy ass building exoskeletons that I gotta make my whole truss outta W44x335s just to have that shit hold up.  the only thing architects have in common with engineers is you have a plotter too.

and landscape architects.....oh my god.  i try to tell them "just draw up some plans with grass and a couple trees".  and then hear "BRING ME THE FINEST SHRUBBERY!" and bring me back plans with a shitton of latin on them.  this one the other day thought he was a genius for not needing an irrigation system, he'd just have curb cuts on the curb/gutter and have a water truck drive by everyday and dump its load on the street, and it'd flow over to the trees.  dude needs to check a NPDES permit and see what other fun chemicals will get to his trees too.

architects are why our infrastructure is falling apart.  something being pretty is more important than statics and strux.
Feb 29 2008 10:21AM
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scurry4
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haha, wow, the world is going to end because of archtects, stop being so fucking ridiculous.
Feb 29 2008 10:32AM
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Aenigma
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Yeah, it's really unnecessary to perpetuate the cycle of conflict between architects and engineers.  There's morons in both, and I for one know of several engineers who would love it if every building was a box with a bunch of columns in the center.  But chances are that's not what the client wants, and everyone needs to work together to come up with a solution.  Making swepping generalizations and pointing fingers at everyone else isn't going to solve any problems, hopefully people will learn that at some point. 
Feb 29 2008 10:37AM
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coolhandluke
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um, its all jokes. 

as an engineer it is my duty to generalize you architects as artists who don't know any math.  and your duty is to make fun of engineers as nerds with no taste.

in school there's architect jokes about engineers, civil jokes about mechs, mech jokes about elens, and everyone clowns on software engineers.  but then they all rally together and poke fun at poli sci and business school majors. 

and then when you graduate private sector makes fun of public sector, and public sector makes fun of private sector.  but then they all rally together and poke fun at politicians who think they know how to delegate a better design.

ps. i like your building design.
Feb 29 2008 2:02PM
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Dr_Feelgood
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Clarkson in potsdam NY is a mad good engineering school and whiteface is like 30 minutes south and vermont is 30 minutes east. sickness. if i get some financial aid im def goin here. but SUNY ESF is also mad good for architecture in syracuse, but theres really no nice mountains around.
Feb 29 2008 2:26PM
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scurry4
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Yeah, sorry, didnt mean to be a dick back, ive just came across some asshole engineer types alot who dont understand what architecture really is, or the skill it involves (not that I as a freshman really do either though)
Mar 2 2008 9:25PM
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