I wrote a post about this about a week ago, but I just wanted to do one more post with all the specifics on what school I should go to. I got accepted into both mines and the CU engineering program, and I don’t know which to choose. I want to do either mechanical engineering, Aerospace engineering, or computer science. I know CU is the only one who has Aerospace as a major (because there the only ones allowed to use Aerospace as a name in Colorado), but mines also has a good space program as well, with internships like space X, and ball aerospace. I went on tours to both school and really liked both even though I liked CU a little better, with a better town and bigger campus. I am very introverted and shy so I like the small campus at mines to have a better opportunity to make friends, but also it might be a bad thing at mines to have more attention as I am shy I don’t always like the attention on me. Mines is also a really hard school, and although I would get through all the work done I get stressed out easily, and honestly thinking about how hard mines is kind of scares me, even though like I said I’m very motivated and I would get the work done. Overall I feel like I would fit in better at mines, but I’m also kind of scared of the work load, and feeling nervous about that one on one at Mines being that I am extremely shy. Boulder on the other hand I feel like is a more relaxed school where I would feel less stressed, but as it is a bigger school I feel like I might get lost in the crowd like I did at my high school, and end up with no friends and lonely. Sorry that was so long, but after all that which college do you thing I should go to?
Mines has regular classes just like CU, so I don’t know that “one on one” is really a problem at Mines. Your classes will be smaller at Mines, but not that small, especially in CS where every university is busting at the seams with the number of CS students today . Mines has a number of teaching professors who are very devoted to teaching you the material you need to know. CU Engineering is more about research, than teaching but they do a good job on the calculus and physics for freshman. CU has gotten more difficult to get in, so they are now very similar in difficulty to Mines. CU offers a B.A. in computer science, which is light weight compared to the bachelors of science at CU.
Mines only offers the harder degrees with math and engineering built in, but that is an advantage to you in
any career you choose.
LASP is a stand out at CU Boulder, read this website and see if you would want to work at LASP, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, right near campus. There are undergrads who work here.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/
You got accepted to Mines so you can manage the workload. Mines also has a really nice summer practicum that is required after sophomore year, all students do a work experience.
Being introverted does not matter, pick the school you like better.