***College Towns to Visit***

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I spent a few hours in Starkville, MS (Mississippi State). I was visiting our location in nearby Columbus, and Starkville was the closest place to get dinner and drinks with the team. Didn't go on campus, but wasn't super impressed with the town or surrounding area.

Rapid City, SD (South Dakota School of Mines) is a cool town. But feels like it's "a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere" on the far western edge of the state.
 
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Reno is kinda big, but it’s a dump so they fit together.
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A town is cool because it has a Hy-Vee? I think there's some room for growth here.

I always look for the record shops in college towns. Bookstores are a bonus. And,of course, independent (not chain) restaurants.
You never had hy -chi??
 

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Granted you have to fight through Chicago suburbs to get there, but I really like Evanston, IL where Northwestern is. Great restaurants. Easy to walk around. Beautiful views from the Lake Michigan shore. Very different feel than Chicago.
Spent some time with the wife's cousin in 2015 in Evanston and loved every minute of it. There were 2 breweries we went to that are now closed and I'm so bummed because I never made it back to them.
 
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Dekalb is pretty MEH for me and I really like Ithaca, NY. Did some hiking in the gorges there and found some cool restaurants. Syracuse is more city now and is kind of rough even though the campus is nice.

Laramie, WY - I really like the campus and the immediate area. Pocatello (Idaho State) is pretty boring even though the campus has its charms.

Amherst, MA (U Mass and Amherst College) is an elite-feeling, charming New England town. The college is gorgeous in a swanky downtown; UMass itself is really ugly. The town feels a lot like Princeton which is gorgeou$.

Ruston, LA (Louisiana Tech) is as boring as can be (something like 50 churches and 3 bars). I do like Tech's campus though.

Downtown Grand Forks (UND) is kind of cool. I liked it. Seems to flood a lot.
I thought Ithaca was pretty cool, but mostly looked at the campus not the town itself. Not to start any cave talk, but I guess the city government is somewhat known for some off-the-wall (read: EXTREMELY leftist moves)

Right on the lake was a great setting. I half-way considered going to grad school. (Didn't) but if I could have that probably would have been my first choice.
 

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I've been to Clemson a couple of time for work and really enjoyed it. Came through on Hwy 93 going across the part of the lake there and saw a couple of teams rowing on what looked like glass as the lake was so calm.
 
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Dekalb is pretty MEH for me and I really like Ithaca, NY. Did some hiking in the gorges there and found some cool restaurants. Syracuse is more city now and is kind of rough even though the campus is nice.

Laramie, WY - I really like the campus and the immediate area. Pocatello (Idaho State) is pretty boring even though the campus has its charms.

Amherst, MA (U Mass and Amherst College) is an elite-feeling, charming New England town. The college is gorgeous in a swanky downtown; UMass itself is really ugly. The town feels a lot like Princeton which is gorgeou$.

Ruston, LA (Louisiana Tech) is as boring as can be (something like 50 churches and 3 bars). I do like Tech's campus though.

Downtown Grand Forks (UND) is kind of cool. I liked it. Seems to flood a lot.
Had an internship in Minneapolis and 4 or 5 of the 30ish interns were EE majors at UND. They were all nice and fun to go out with on the weekend but damn did they like to brag about trekking to class in blizzards.
 

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Had an internship in Minneapolis and 4 or 5 of the 30ish interns were EE majors at UND. They were all nice and fun to go out with on the weekend but damn did they like to brag about trekking to class in blizzards.
I was in Grand Forks at UND once and when we left the hotel around 7:30 in the morning, went out to the parking lot and got into the car, the external temperature read -61.

That's 61 degrees below zero. Coldest day of my life. But other than that it was pretty nice.
 

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I was in Grand Forks at UND once and when we left the hotel around 7:30 in the morning, went out to the parking lot and got into the car, the external temperature read -61.

That's 61 degrees below zero. Coldest day of my life. But other than that it was pretty nice.
I got a marketing mailer from them in high school touting their dorms with A/C. WHAT ABOUT THE DAMN HEAT?!?!?
 

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Been to too many college towns to count, I remember Fargo being surprisingly cool.

Ferrum, Virginia, on the other hand... woof.
Visited Fargo for the first time last week for work and the downtown area was much cooler than I expected it'd be. Pretty fun town
 
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Went on a college visit to UNI with my HS class on the coldest windiest day possible. Felt bad for the tour guide none of us wanted to be there

Lincoln, Nebraska is a amazing though
 

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I was in Grand Forks at UND once and when we left the hotel around 7:30 in the morning, went out to the parking lot and got into the car, the external temperature read -61.

That's 61 degrees below zero. Coldest day of my life. But other than that it was pretty nice.
Yeah we all knew it gets really harsh up there, it was just funny that these 20 and 21 year olds were already bragging about walking up the hill into the wind to and from class. Especially when besides one kid who was from Texas Tech, I was the furthest south of all of us at ISU.
 

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