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It was a really great trip. Friday, they ran me all over the department. Gave me the full tour - classrooms, labs, the grad student cube facility. Downside: grad students all use Linux (I actually like WinXP!). Downside: grad students are two-three to a cube. Talked with over half the faculty, and probably a dozen grad students, including all three American female Ph.D students. I may be exagerating, but not by much.

Saturday, had morning coffee with another grad student (they tried to have me talk to students with a lot of different professors) and then went around town with a nice girl who's just started her doctoral work out there this semester. We drove all around town, then up to the mountains, then hung for a while. It was great.

Today started at 5:45, getting ready to catch the shuttle... met a really cute physics guy on the shuttle who came up to check out the physics grad department and is from Pittsburgh. I may have to check out physics department events... some of the guys in CS were cute but mostly not.

Anyway, I really liked it. Money's going to be tight because I won't room with someone I don't know, but... er, Rosie, it's a really, really nice place... dog-friendly, healthy, everyone is nice and intelligent, all the coffee shops have free wireless internet... other than housing, things are pretty darn cheap... the IT department is in the same building as the CS department...

I'll post pictures of mountains shortly!

Suzi, forgot to mention something that might interest you, ro not: I was really, really surprised at the quality of the professors' credentials. I mean, CSU is not a top twenty school, but some of these people are apparently near the top of their fields! I guess it shows it's not where you go but who you work with. And a large percent of the grad students are published before Ph.D. Nice....

... some of the guys in CS were cute but mostly not.

Heh...but you DID check, huh?

As long as at least SOME are cute...

Money's going to be tight because I won't room with someone I don't know, but... er, Rosie, it's a really, really nice place... dog-friendly, healthy, everyone is nice and intelligent, all the coffee shops have free wireless internet... other than housing, things are pretty darn cheap...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. ;-) I admit it HAS been on my mind. I at least want to visit!