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snowmosexualI graduated two years ago what do you wanna know
JITYWhere
BradFiAusNzCoCaUNR Lake Tahoe - literally in the middle of it all
SivvySoooo any tips on how to make this happen because I was DEVASTATED when SNU shut down and if I could make this would be a dream come true. Please respond I'm very upset about it tbh
BradFiAusNzCoCaI went to SNU when it was Snc. Honestly I think you just have to figure out the major you want to take and then do it. It’s still UNR. It truly is in the middle of everything. It’s wild. I would call UNR admission and ask and do some research but it’s gotta be possible
ThegenericskierI enjoy MSU quite a lot these days
muffMan.You doin big sky or bridger
ThegenericskierBridger mainly, might grab a big sky or ikon pass soonish I think
PacificRimJobThe amount of Montana State vs Utah threads Ive seen over the years... my god.
Young_pattyYeah cause they both have good skiing, and both will let you in if you can spell your name correctly on the application.
SlushSeasonWow, your not kidding... 95% acceptance rate at the U
Why would anyone even go to Weber State or UVU when U of U takes literally everybody
Young_pattyYup, exactly.
MSU was easy for me to get into and I got decent scholarships, plus I didn't even have to write an essay- just 2 reasons why I wanted to go!
The caveat of both schools is they have a tremendous dropout rate. MSU has a graduation rate of 51% and that's actually a lot better than past years. Like by the end of freshman year roughly 1/3 of all my friends had either dropped out or transferred schools. So it's easy for a lot of people to get in- but a lot never finish.
Young_pattyYeah cause they both have good skiing, and both will let you in if you can spell your name correctly on the application.
PacificRimJobI didn't apply to either, but I have little doubt I'd have been accepted lol. They have lower standards than almost any school in California.
SlushSeasonWhy would anyone even go to Weber State or UVU when U of U takes literally everybody
profa_212California schools can actually be pretty hard to get into depending on what one you're looking at.
It's part of why so many Californians go out of state lol
SlushSeasonWhy would anyone even go to Weber State or UVU when U of U takes literally everybody
PacificRimJobNot wanting to live in SLC
eheathSLC is far better than ogden or orem brother man
Farmville420My friends that went to CU had way more fun than my friends that went to MSU or UU
Farmville420My friends that went to CU had way more fun than my friends that went to MSU or UU
Jemsthey also have $100,000 in student debt
profa_212CU actually looks like hell ngl
profa_212CU actually looks like hell ngl
JemsCU is montana state but more absolutely insufferable rich people and less granola people. i guess it’s montana state if you like partying and shitty frat parties.
eheath"party scene" is by far the most overrated metric for incoming freshman. youre gonna party and have fun at whatever college you go to.
Farmville420Not true at all, especially in actual cities
eheathI've been in your exact shoes, I thought partying was a big deal too. Its not a big deal, dont pick a school because "it looks fun" pick a school in a location you prefer with programs you want to study.
and what do you mean "actual cities"? how does that affect the college at all? some of the biggest party schools are in small towns.
Farmville420We're on the same page, I'm speaking from experience cuz I went to school in Boston and if you don't have a fake ID you aren't doing shit on the weekends, it's not like people have houses and the ones who do usually don't throw bangers frequently. But yeah I mean you don't have to go to school to party, but if you're trapped in a city with not a lot of money and no car it's pretty miserable. I think college would have been less depressing if I didn't go to school there, I made great friends but the actual experience was genuine hell for 4 straight years. I think it's valuable to go somewhere affordable where you'll actually enjoy your time as opposed to drinking everclear and wandering the streets at night or playing video games all day
Farmville420We're on the same page, I'm speaking from experience cuz I went to school in Boston and if you don't have a fake ID you aren't doing shit on the weekends, it's not like people have houses and the ones who do usually don't throw bangers frequently. But yeah I mean you don't have to go to school to party, but if you're trapped in a city with not a lot of money and no car it's pretty miserable. I think college would have been less depressing if I didn't go to school there, I made great friends but the actual experience was genuine hell for 4 straight years. I think it's valuable to go somewhere affordable where you'll actually enjoy your time as opposed to drinking everclear and wandering the streets at night or playing video games all day
Young_pattyBro ngl it kind of sounds like you squandered your college years drinking everclear and playing videogames instead of going out and doing stuff.
First of all: "trapped in a city without a car" is a total Oxymoron- especially a larger city like Boston that has its own subway and public transportation system, and I know students probably got discounted metro cards too. You could have literally spent a bit of time learning routes and then been able to go wherever you wanted, whenever you wanted.
Also a city of 650,000 people and no house parties? Come on dude- lets be real, you probably just weren't getting invited to any of them. And don't even tell me you couldn't find a bar to drink in... it's the Irish capital of the US and there wasn't a single bar you could get into?
Idk dude, a city as large and diverse as Boston would have been a blast to live in, there's literally so much to do there, it kinda bewilders me how you couldn't find anything to do? Like ig if you just spent all your time drinking everclear and playing videogames it would have sucked, but it doesn't sound like you really made an effort to enjoy it. I think you would have been just as equally miserable in Boulder- especially if you consider Boston expensive.
Farmville420Caught with a fake in high school so didn't have one in college, the T only services Boston so technically you're still "trapped" within Boston by using it, amtrak tickets to go away for the weekend cost almost as much as plane tickets, house parties aren't common in the city and the ones I went to weren't fun, we either went to parties at UMass Amherst or just pregame and go to bars (which i would then have to go home instead of to the bars), its genuinely not common for people to throw house parties and the house parties are always just in someones dimly lit basement. There's not a lot of free stuff to do and definitely nothing like mtb, hiking, skiing, rock climbing that you can access without a car which my college didn't allow us to have (very common for boston if you arent a commuter). It's fun to visit but if you're living there with no money it's not fun you mostly just skate around and smoke and drink. Also the beaches suck so it doesn't even have the benefits of being a coastal city.
I'll vouch for their punk scene though, those shows are pretty cool. I wouldn't say squandered either, like yeah being poor in college in an expensive city sucks but I have no debt so life now is way better. I've been back there a few times and when you have money and are over 21 it's fun, but its not like a mountain town college, there was no bus to a ski resort or fun rock climbing in your back yard, you couldn't surf at the beaches (honestly I don't even think it's safe to swim in the water frequently there).
Farmville420Caught with a fake in high school so didn't have one in college, the T only services Boston so technically you're still "trapped" within Boston by using it, amtrak tickets to go away for the weekend cost almost as much as plane tickets, house parties aren't common in the city and the ones I went to weren't fun, we either went to parties at UMass Amherst or just pregame and go to bars (which i would then have to go home instead of to the bars), its genuinely not common for people to throw house parties and the house parties are always just in someones dimly lit basement. There's not a lot of free stuff to do and definitely nothing like mtb, hiking, skiing, rock climbing that you can access without a car which my college didn't allow us to have (very common for boston if you arent a commuter). It's fun to visit but if you're living there with no money it's not fun you mostly just skate around and smoke and drink. Also the beaches suck so it doesn't even have the benefits of being a coastal city.
I'll vouch for their punk scene though, those shows are pretty cool. I wouldn't say squandered either, like yeah being poor in college in an expensive city sucks but I have no debt so life now is way better. I've been back there a few times and when you have money and are over 21 it's fun, but its not like a mountain town college, there was no bus to a ski resort or fun rock climbing in your back yard, you couldn't surf at the beaches (honestly I don't even think it's safe to swim in the water frequently there).
