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I am an international student from India. I recently got an admit for MS in CS at School of Mines. However, I did not get any financial aid. As the fee is so expensive, will I have opportunities like internships or TA jobs to recover the fee? How about the job prospects once we graduate from Mines? I saw that the average of MS graduates is 103k$. Does the college have tie up with big tech companies?

I'm a freshman in chemical engineering and I was wondering which of Sketchup or Solidworks is better. I'm going to be learning one but not the other and I'm new to CAD, any advice?

Edit: I am in Thorson and I'm going to try Solidworks, thanks everyone for the advice!

Mines is one of the schools on my son’s radar, we’ll be visiting in a couple of weeks, touring and going to a football game on Saturday. I’m hanging felt pennants in his room of the schools he is considering, already have all of them EXCEPT ONE. I can’t find one for Mines anywhere! Amazon doesn’t have any. The official school store shows them out of stock online. Anyone know where I can get one online?

Curious because I'm planning what summer classes I should take. I'm wondering what the workload is like - if it's "easier/harder" to take it over the summer compared to a normal semester. Thanks!

Would it even be worth applying? OOS Low-Income

Hey y'all, School of Mines just popped up on my radar for Aerospace Engineering, and I would likely do early action. Thing is, I'm out of state and that net price calculator kills me. I'm already doing Questbridge, so i think it'd be better to focus on those, correct? From what I know this place gives very little OOS merit aid. Cheers!

Any CS major or recent graduates who have found a job? or return offer from summer internship? This time last year, I had so many internship offers that I cherry picked but none this year. No job offers either. I have talked to so many recruiters at the job fair and sent hundreds of resumes but no connections so far. It was so quite, I have not seen like this quite since even my freshman year. I am a senior, when should I start be worrying?

Its very hard to find any reviews for Mines' EE and all I can see are the professors' profiles and their rankings. Mines EE is ranked #65 in the country. I'm willing to overlook the rankings as long as the program is good / adequate. I wanted to get into RF and CU Boulder and CSU Fort Collins both don't offer a distance education master's that focusses on that area.

I'm still searching for other online RF master's geared towards working professionals. I'm a little unsure if getting the degree itself would be a good way to break into the field. After I graduated from CU in May, I was recruited as Systems Engineer at a defense contractor. A lot of my EE friends were recruited by companies like Hewitt Packard, NVIDIA, Seagate as software/embedded software engineers or systems engineers at big defense companies. I knew a few CU people that got placed into R&D positions like at MIT Lincoln Lab and Naval Research Lab but those were rare. I was more interested in RF/Microwave and PCB design, although those positions usually require a master's. What I'm witnessing is that a lot of EEs at my school were either hired as software developers or systems engineers. Very few EEs I knew went into the RF industry designing antennas.

Please provide source with answer, I've heard both and can't find official statement either way.

In my 5 years at Mines, I never felt like the smartest person in the room. All my peers were either as smart or smarter than me. I think this humbling was a good thing and helped me understand that I should always listen to what others have to say, because I could be wrong no matter how sure of myself I was.

Now I've been working in technical consulting in the heart of corporate America for over a year, and I'm still in awe at just how dumb the average person is. During my training I would consistently finish "assignments" 30+ minutes before the next-fastest person. About 70% of the other new hires were struggling to follow simple step-by-step instructions with screenshots with little red boxes. When I meet with clients I have to explain system frontend functionality as if it's some strange alien tech. I had a lot of experience teaching literal children throughout my Mines career, so I have a good amount of patience and understanding when someone is struggling to get a concept. But these people work with the system every single day, so I would expect at least a base level of coherency.

I don't mean to sound condescending or like I have some sort of Mines superiority complex, but I honestly can't believe that the people I'm working with have the positions they're in. I'm having to stop myself from listening to the ideas of others because a lot of the people I work with propose ideas that would either nuke the system or be a collosal waste of money. Does anyone else feel this way? I just want to go back to being surrounded by smart and talented people. I'd settle for just competent.

Did anyone choose between CSM and WPI?

Those two are my favorite I have visited. They just seem very similar to me. Any big differences?

Heyo, I was just curious if anyone else was going to the Imagine Dragons concert at Red Rocks on Thursday, October 17th? It'd be nice to either get a ride or split an Uber fair or something.

If you know of anyone who's going, if you could ask them, that'd be cool too.

Hey all! I have never really posted on reddit but Mines is incredibly good at NOT giving any information. Do you know when we will get feedback back on our posters? I am presenting for the first time and am really eager for critiques, so if anyone knows, that would be great!

Any recent graduates (I think it’s limited to only August graduates at the moment) not going to purchase their 150th anniversary cowboy hat from mines? I already ordered mine for me, and my father in law was wanting to get one.

I’ll pay someone extra for it.

DM me if you can help out!

I had a package expedited because it was something of importance and it arrived to the school last Thursday and to my dorm the next day. I’ve checked at the front desk three times since it’s arrived so and no mail. So I emailed the mail center and apparently my package has been at my dorm since Friday. This isn’t the first time this has happened since school has started. I’ve also received about 5 pieces of mail and only gotten an email from the front desk of my dorm one time.

I want to get my kid an Ethernet Cable for his dorm (Maple), but I don't want to get him something that won't work. Amazon has a better price right now (on sale) for a Cat 8 over a Cat 6. I'm not terribly worried about which is faster; is the Cat 8 functional? Last I worked with was 6, not sure if the connections have changed.

Hi, I’m a sophomore at mines now and while I lived in the dorms I never made a solid friend group and don’t live with anyone from there now. I feel sorta lost on how to go about making friends here now. sure I can join a club but then what? I sit there for an hour and then leave. I know I am part of the problem it just feels so awkward to put myself out there now that people seem to already have it figured out. So basically any advice for spaces that people seem willing to talk and find people?

The physics teacher keeps telling us that the test contains only problems similar to what we have done in class? Does that mean same question different numbers?

Anyone know of any clubs or groups where I can practice my Spanish? Don’t care if it’s formal/official, just want a chance to talk in Spanish to some people every so often.

Alumni here. Graduated in 2020. Mostly posting to try and get recommendations for students to hire (EE/CE) from Mines to work in Houston. Maybe Geology students as well cause oil, but I'm an EE so I don't much about oil and related education.

Work for a company that does wireline telemetry primarily for cased-hole logging (that's for you oil people). We're in need of firmware developers and people with a special love of C/C++ for microcontrollers and to develop a win32 program.

It's a small company so there's an infinite variety of work that needs to get done. Anyone here know someone not turned off by living/working in the swamp (Houston TX)? It's a desk job, but I get many people from Houston go to Mines to leave Houston...

On another note, has anyone been at Mines since 2020? Curious about how it's changed since my last pilgrimage in 2022.

I have some lights that refuse to work without wifi and none of the Mines wifis work for them, anyone know what i can do?

Hi! I'm having a hard time understanding the concepts in linear algebra. Does anyone know any good tutors that could help?

Hey all,

Does anyone really know for sure what the three pillars in kafadar represent, if anything? The closest reasoning I can think of are the three pillars of freemasonry, Strength, Beauty, and Wisdom. Those represented by the uncarved stone, the romanesque pillar, and the geometricly braced pillar. I dont really expect Mines to be the home of a Masonic statue, or any Masonic representation at all, so I’d like to hear some other ideas.

I was curious to know what the difference was in these universities. My husband is moving down to Colorado in the next few months and wants to do a part-time master's. The job is located in Colorado Springs and he will be a Sr. Hardware Engineer. We looked at schools nearby and there is one at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

For the university rankings, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs is #179 in engineering. This is very low of a ranking. He is an alum from Virginia Tech, a very prestigious engineering school in our state (#31 nationally). The only school that comes close is the University of Colorado-Boulder (#23 in engineering) and Colorado School of Mines (#53 in engineering).

Hello, current Engineering Physics freshman here. I've been trying to find information about Nuclear Engineering at Mines, but outside of their website I haven't really found any info on the program. I'd like to get a master's in nuclear engineering down the road, and obviously I'm considering doing Mines' combined degree program, but I'm not completely sold on staying at Mines for grad school. Is there anyone involved in NE at Mines that could weigh in?

Any current students that play Pokémon Go? I just got back into it and want to try all the new stuff they added and fight in more raids.

Hi!

I’m currently a senior attending the career fair, looking for employment once I graduate. I’m majoring in electrical engineering, and pursuing a minor in computer science with a focus in robotics and intelligent systems. Because of this minor, I decided to go for the general EE track so that I could double count some my credits to satisfy both my major and minor.

Over the last few months, I’ve been becoming increasingly interested in semiconductor manufacturing. I’m currently enrolled in the semiconductor physics and design course, and I’ve really been enjoying it. Unfortunately, I’m a bit too far into my studies to make a switch to ICE.

At the career fair this year, there are some really great semiconductor manufacturing companies such as Microchip, Samsung, and Texas Instruments. I’m really interested in a career with one of these companies, but I’m concerned that not being in the ICE track will immediately make me less valuable to these companies, all of whom will be talking to hundreds of students over the course of the fair, most of them ICE track students who have been working towards this exact opportunity their entire college career.

Is it worth it to try for a job at these companies? Waiting in the career fair lines for these companies will eat up much of the time, and although I’m super interested in working in this industry I have a feeling that they would just choose a person with similar qualifications, but that chose to complete the ICE track.

Hello everybody! I am a student currently enrolled in community college at Red Rocks and I am writing this to prod some advice from you all about whether it is a good idea to transfer to Metropolitan State University Denver. I have made plans to transfer to MSU Denver's mechanical engineering technology degree program after completing some core classes at Red Rocks. Do any of y'all know people who went to MSU for this? There is little information from graduates or current students online? The lack of information about this program plus many people telling me that there are better schools, better programs, and different options has made me very nervous about continuing on my original plan. I am worried I might regret going to MSU for other reasons as well. There seems to be basically no social presence at the school, with many rating the school very poorly in this aspect on RateMyProfessor.

I have considered going to mines, but I would basically start off on square 0 if I do in terms of credits, and I'm not sure I could handle how intense it seems from what many have described to me. I know this post is very long already, but I have a lot on my mind right now and I feel very uncertain about my school trajectory. What if I graduate from MSU, and no company wants to hire me because of bad reputation. What if I try to do mines and fail because I overestimated my abilities. I know there are other ways to do this, and other ways to go about life as a whole. Perhaps I am just overwhelmed right now by the possibilities. I just don't know what do do or who to ask, but I appreciate any advice coming from this thread. Thanks everyone <3