Boulder

[Faraday]

If you are worried about finding a place because you might be waiting too long then relax! It's certainly not too late. If you lookd on craigslist reccently there were probably a lot of movement on pre-lease places, but these are almost all undergraduate locations. You wouldn't want to live there anyway. I started looking in early June and I am pretty happy with where I ended up (found on craiglist). I know some people who flew in and started looking in mid-June and they found good places as well. The kinds of apartments you will be looking for will be completely separate from the undergratuate parts of town, and in some cases you will even find complexes that strictly prohibit undergraduates from living there (my apartment included). These places won't begin to know know until around June if they will need to find a new tennant for the following years since the leases often have a 1 or 2 month advance notice requirement for leaving.

 

 

I have been researching health insurance and was wondering if any current or past students could share any thoughts on the CU insurance or any other insurance plan in Boulder.

 

I've heard it's not too great, and the presentation the gave on it to all of the new graduate students back in August didn't really help that image. The main problems to me seemed to be sub-par coverage in terms of deductable and such, limited coverage areas (you pretty much have to go the to CU-health center for everything unless you get an explicit outside referal from there), and vision coverage is not included but provided as an extra package you have to tack onto the regular plan.

 

With the reccently signed healthcare bill I decided to stay on my parents' plan for the time being. The coverage is all around much better (except I can't go to the CU-health center...) and it is cheaper as well.

Edited May 9, 2014 by Faraday