Faraday

Just as an FYI, Grubbs is no longer taking grad students and he hasn't been for the past few years. Good luck with you applications!

To offer an alternative opiniton as someone who originally lived near Washington D.C., the traffic here really isn't all that bad. It's traffic and it will slow down your commute but in the grand scheme of things it's about average for what you would expect living near any major metropolitan area. I always get a chuckle when the locals here complain about how bad their traffic is... Most people I know who commute to Boulder each day agree it's not fun (especially when it snows) but that the various reasons for living outside of Boulder (cheaper rent, SO needing to work somewhere, etc.) outweight the negatives of the commute.
 
As you alluded to there are some really great suburbs between Denver and Boulder that are closer to CU (less of a commute problem) but still pretty close to Denver. There are a few nice places but Broomfield is in my opinion the all around best location. It is quite literally in the middle between Denver and Boulder, and there is lots of reasonably priced housing there. As mentione above the RTD buses will go by there each morning.
 
it should also be noted that the RTD bus pass isn't "free". As a graduate student (at least in my experience) you'll be paying several hundred dollars in student fees (unless your department coveres these, which is rare) and if you go in and look at the itemized expenses you can see the RTD bus pass you are paying for. You don't get and option and it's a great deal but you are definately paying for it along with a number of other less useful things.

Almost the best post of the night.
 
Right after slowpoke.

Almost the best post of the night.
 
Right after slowpoke.

Almost the best post of the night.
 
Right after slowpoke.

FastLane my ass! Its more like SlowLane!

Well that was rather anticlimactic.

Well that was rather anticlimactic.

Well that was rather anticlimactic.

It would be funny if the notice came out Monday and then Tuesday they sent out another message that said: April Fools! The announcement wil be Friday. Hospitals in areas with a high population of students would need to be forewarned though.

I wouldn't say it's not well heard of; it was one of the first things I remember reading about Scripps Chemistry. I think the bottom line is that if you hope to end up in academia you should try to get some teaching experience on your resume. Chances are [at any large public institution] you will be teaching several hundred undergrads in some introductory couse and I imagine the hiring committe would like to see that it won't be your first rodeo. If you intend to go to a small LAC, then this is even more true.

I don't know who's spreading this rumor as I heard the same thing when I visited CU, but I can say from my experience it is certainly not true. I have at&t and I get perfect 4G LTE coverage everywhere in Boulder as well as everywhere in the greater Denver metropolitan area. Obviously I don't get good service in some of the metal lab buildings, but otherwise it is fine. I have been told Verizon is even better than at&t so if you have one of those you will be fine. I can't speak for the other carriers or exactly how much data you might want for your own personal tastes, however there is wifi all over campus that you can connect your phone to to reduct data charges while you are at school.

Yup, kinda hard to avoid douchery in a thread when it's on the OP.
 
Oh, and also, great job up voting yourself!

So you went with preemptive douchery, so people weren't douches?

Graduate recruitment weekends as a graduate student: mmmmm... free cookies!

Graduate recruitment weekends as a graduate student: mmmmm... free cookies!

Graduate recruitment weekends as a graduate student: mmmmm... free cookies!

Graduate recruitment weekends as a graduate student: mmmmm... free cookies!

You should consider this a blessing as now you don't need to stress out about hearing the results right away, and you'll get to it when you hae time.

super rare with young faculty. their career depends on the blood, sweat, and tears of their students and why the hell would they let their best workers go when they're at the peak of production??? 
 
an older PI might give less of a shit.
 
i'd venture to say that the majority of folks who leave after 4 years do so with a Masters... and that is not really where you wanna be
 
final thought: if you are entering grad school with even the smallest shred of expectation/hope that you'll be a PhD in four years - DO NOT GO TO GRAD SCHOOL!

Am I the only one who has pushed this to the back of my mind and I never even really think abou it? Someone asked me about it today so I checked in but otherwise I just tell myself there is nothing I can do right now so why worry? You guys are stressing me out!

Am I the only one who has pushed this to the back of my mind and I never even really think abou it? Someone asked me about it today so I checked in but otherwise I just tell myself there is nothing I can do right now so why worry? You guys are stressing me out!

Under no circumstances should the words suit and chemistry be connected unless you are receiving your Nobel Prize.

Interesting news for you folks, and reading between the lines might give some answers as to exactly what happened.
 
http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/chancellors-corner-philosophy-department-culture-change-starts-naming-new-chair