Grad School In Colorado?

[TheDon]

Any reason you want to go right now instead of getting a jobby job for a few years? Why not break into a resort company or work in hospitality for a few years. You can get experience and get your days in...you will get a lot more out of b-school if you have been in the cubes for a few years. Not to mention, experience makes it easier to get into a better program.

Resort jobs usually don't pay squat...but I'm sure there are some $alarie$ that would surprise me.

I have been working for a year since cool-edge and in order to land a job I moved Twin Falls ID close to Sun Valley but I'd rather ski some where pow lands, ya know? (plus their season is $2500.00...Ouch!)

I plan on working for maybe one more year. Last year I got my fix by driving to SLC(40+ days).

Thanks everyone for your in put it helps out a ton! I'm definitely gonna print off the thread for future ref.

P.S. Ney sayers---you will be cleaning our shitters when we land solid jobs.

[shmerham]

P.S. Ney sayers---you will cleaning our shitters when we land solid jobs.

You won't cleaning shitters when you learn to write complete sentences.

[Tunco]

Thats amazing, I just landed a solid one while sitting on the shitter.

[jonpierre]

P.S. Ney sayers---you will cleaning our shitters when we land solid jobs.

thanks miss cleo

[DanKo]

You won't have time for skiing. Move to the desert so you aren't tempted.

I respectfully disagree! CSU in Fort Collins may not be close (the extra hour on I-25 from Denver is a slap in the face), but I averaged 30 days/year for the last six years doing my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology here. Guess what? My final thesis is PRINTING RIGHT NOW!

You can DO IT!

If you really want to be closer, try Western State in Gunnison (aka Wasted State).

[Sphinx]

I respectfully disagree! CSU in Fort Collins may not be close (the extra hour on I-25 from Denver is a slap in the face), but I averaged 30 days/year for the last six years doing my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology here.

Ahhhhh, say no more.

If I'm still in grad school in six years I'll shoot myself.




Just kidding (kinda), and congratuations on the PhD.

[TheDon]

I respectfully disagree! CSU in Fort Collins may not be close (the extra hour on I-25 from Denver is a slap in the face), but I averaged 30 days/year for the last six years doing my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology here. Guess what? My final thesis is PRINTING RIGHT NOW!

You can DO IT!

If you really want to be closer, try Western State in Gunnison (aka Wasted State).

CONGRATS...BROSKI

[MakersTeleMark]

you will be cleaning our shitters when we land solid jobs.

I will always remember you by this quote. +10 points.

[acostiga]

if you're so intent on an international mba, why don't you look at a school that's somewhere else in the world? wouldn't getting out, about and learning more about the rest of the world kind of be the point?

[TheDon]

if you're so intent on an international mba, why don't you look at a school that's somewhere else in the world? wouldn't getting out, about and learning more about the rest of the world kind of be the point?

That is an option, Spain, Chile or Argentina(where the snow is).

I have already lived abroad for three years south of the US border.

Post Script- Portillo in Chile is pretty sick if anyone was wondering.

[cj001f]

Chile or Argentina(where the snow is).

Quality academics there - why don't you just save up boxtops from your Frosted Flakes and send away for a degree instead?

[mr_gyptian]

Quality academics there - why don't you just save up boxtops from your Frosted Flakes and send away for a degree instead?

because honeycombs license plates have more street cred.

[schuss]

P.S. Ney sayers---you will be cleaning our shitters when we land solid jobs.

It's naysayers, and people like you end up with a useless piece of paper and no job due to your shitty attitude.

[cj001f]

because honeycombs license plates have more street cred.

I hear Enron went for cookie crisp

[FigureEleven]

I got a BSEE and MBA from DU. It was a pretty awesome program. I busted my ass to make sure I had plently of ski days and got ~80 while I was in the MBA program. I got fewer days during the BSEE.

[DanKo]

Read: 6 years, no masters.

"That's DR. SHITHEAD to you..."

-My favorite future line.

[Shug]

I read all the posts quickly and would say TacomaLuv has best advice thus far. Grad school is a big investment, go to the best school you can get in to. I went to Thunderbird (recently) and wouldn't trade it for the world. Didn't get in to Haas or would have gone there. I did get in to Leeds and Daniels but decided against them as they are regionals. You want to live in Colorado by all means go to Leeds or Daniels. You want to live abroad again or in LA, SF, Chicago, NY, Thunderbird is the way to go. Leeds for Real Estate, Daniels if you want to mix with execs who are taking classes. Neither program is all that impressive when stacked against programs like Haas, MIT etc. A lot of schools teach international business these days but T-Birds live it. I'm white bread americana, but I now have colleagues in every corner of the world, from Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand to Germany, Russia, and Turkey, and oh yeah Wall Street. TacomaLuv is correct in what he says about recruiting, but if you're worth you're salt you will land somewhere. I'm a few years out and have a great job with a Fortune 500. Thunderbird is not for cutthroat ivy leaguers out to impress daddy and work for Goldman...it's more like you are in business for the adventure. You understand how to do business overseas, you roll up your sleeves and get shit done. You truly understand and appreciate cultural differences and you know how to overcome those difference to do business. Enough rant, you want to know about skiing....

I hiked Agassiz and Humprey's in Flag and the terrain was phenomenal. One of my best days (and coldest) of 2003 was at Snowbowl, no shit, and I skied Tahoe/Winter Park a lot that year. 'Course you are in the desert so why not take a semester in Geneva like I did. 45 minutes to Chamonix for fucks sake. You don't even need a car, you can ride the train all the way. Zermatt is only a 2 hour drive, La Grave about the same. My Colorado buddies came out, we hired a guide and I had the four sickest days of bc skiing in my life; 5k vert, glaciers, chutes, rock climbing, Mt Blanc in the distance... How do you sign up for that?? Oh hi Mr. So and So you want to do Switzerland for a semester, live next door to the UN, learn from Swiss Investment bankers managing billions of dollars....uh okay, sign on the dotted line. 20 days in the French Alps, a road trip to Milan, Cinque Terre, Rome, and every inch of coast in Spain later and here I am drunk, fat and happy on my MBA salary waiting for the snow to fly. PM me if you want to know more.

[zhing zhing]

You seem to want to go to grad school in Colorado. Then go. I'm sure the b-school at DU doesn't have anything that you wouldn't find at Tuck (Dartmouth), Sloan (MIT), Columbia, Stern (NYU), Harvard, or even U of Washington, right?

If you really want international, then go international: UBC (Vancouver), Universität Zürich, Universitité de Genève, INSEAD (Paris), ESC (Grenoble), IMD (Lausanne), Handelschøyskolen BI (Oslo)...just to name a few. All those places have anglophone MBA programs and are very well regarded. And there are many more in Germany, a few in Italy, and dozens in the UK (get to know RyanAir--a round trip flight from a London airport to, say, Geneva, would cost less than the gas for a VT trip from NYC).

Or just move to a ski town and buy an MBA from University of Phoenix. That's really the only "grad school" that will give you enough time to ski as much as you probably want.

[BeanDip4All]

TacomaLuv is correct in what she says about recruiting

Fixed it for you. Can't you tell by my eyes?

[cj001f]

Fixed it for you. Can't you tell by my eyes?

They keep cutting people in half!

[mr_gyptian]

What edge does Thunderbird have over these other schools? Hell, I hear some people speak of it in higher regards than quite a few of the top tier b-schools. What gives?


Figure, when did you go to DU?

[FigureEleven]

Figure, when did you go to DU?

BSEE 2000-2003
MBA 2003-2005

[mr_gyptian]

just missed me ('99). You attended a vastly different University than I. what a difference tens of millions of dollars can make.

[TheDon]

FigureEleven+mr. gyptian-

How did the job search turn out? Did DU and T-Bird give much help on the placement? Did you end up where you thought you'd be?--(Location and Occupation)

[mr_gyptian]

The reaction in Chicago was D who?

but I was a broker at Morgan Stanley, a mutual fund analyst at Northern Trust. Came to my senses and now run a Ford dealership in Summit County. I am only a lowly DU undergrad alum. No MBA for this kid.