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How often do you really get to ski in college?

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treetrunks
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Title says it all
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Tree60
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I'm going to Montana State, which is 25 minutes from bridger bowl. You can ski as much as you can handle physically/mentally. If you get your schedule right, it's really easy to go ski after classes for a few hours. I got in about 75-80 days this season, with a full courseload.
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lIllI
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Freshman/sophomore year I skied twice a week. Senior year I skied a total of two days throughout the season.

So yeah, I pretty much quit skiing for school. Feelsbadman.
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HamFaceGirl
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I skied about two times the whole season. You won't want to ski on weekends, trust me
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-Dan
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SideShowBobYou won't want to ski on weekends, trust me



LOL
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awal
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As with many things in college, you get out what you put in. If you want to graduate summa cum laude and you're taking time-intensive courses, it's likely that you won't hit the slopes that much.

If you want to ski everyday and academics aren't as big of a priority, you probably could make it happen, depending on where your school is and it's distance to mountains.

I went to a small yet extremely rigorous liberal arts college. Academics mattered to me but I didn't spend all of my time studying. That being said, I was able to ski roughly 2 days a week. My senior year when I was writing my thesis, I didn't go skiing at all outside of vacation time.

Ultimately, it's a question of priorities. You'll realize that some people will forgo establishing a social life in order to get really good grades and on the contrary, some people won't give a flying fuck about academics so they can focus on partying. It sounds cheesy, but it's really up to you to decide how you want to spend your time.
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maggieschoemann
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I go to University of Nevada, Reno and if you want to really ski in college you should go there. 35 minutes from Northstar, 45 from Squaw and an hour from South Lake Resorts and Boreal. I work almost full time, am going to school for nursing and have a minor and still ski 100+ days a season and end the season with a killer goggle tan. Most people I know are very similar to this as well if they are dedicated skiers/snowboarders. Plus even if you dont have a car its extremely easy to find a ride.
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Beans13
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I got a degree in 4 years, took a full course load, worked to support myself, made deans list nearly every semester finishing with a 3.7 GPA and skied over 100 days a year, every year. Booom! Western!
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gabe_cohen
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I go to the University of Utah 7 months out of the year and ski the other 5. go to school during the summer and fall and take spring semester off (december-may)
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lIllI
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Beans13I got a degree in 4 years, took a full course load, worked to support myself, made deans list nearly every semester finishing with a 3.7 GPA and skied over 100 days a year, every year. Booom! Western!


What did you major in? I'm taking only 3 classes a semester, work 15 hours a week, and can't even find time to go skiing, let alone grocery shopping. My GPA is good but I hate my life, so there's that.
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op14
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RailersailerBECAUSE ITS THE U OF U


THC skis every fucking day and they somehow manage to pass their classes
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Mainah
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I go to school outside Boston but live and ski in Maine 4+ hours away and skied about 80 days this year. The trick is to make fall semesters fucking suck so you can take spring easy and ski all the time. Working at the mountain helps too because its an excuse to go up and the school usually views it as an excuse to keep your car on campus even if you're not supposed to be able to.
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Beans13
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mmccarthy14THC skis every fucking day and they somehow manage to pass their classes


skiing.
Outdoor Leadership and Resort Management with a Business minor.
you seem like a very poor time manager.
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s-hand
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I go to the University of Pittsburgh as a mechanical engineer. 7springs is about an hour away and I got about 40ish days in.
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lIllI
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Beans13you seem like a very poor time manager.


I'd say I'm more of a slow learner. I'll set at my desk at 8 hours a day without distraction and just barely understand what I'm doing.
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DerpaPhi
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I went to Westminster College in SLC for two years and got to ski plenty, though not as much as I really wanted to. Junior year I skied 50+ days, though my senior year was only 35ish due to a heavy schedule. I'm also not the best at time management. If you do it right you can be like one of my friends who did over 120 days this past year.
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alev
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Went to UVM, skied 45 days my first year, 75 my second, 75 my third, and 85 my fourth year. I skied 3-4 days a week, and took advantage of every vacation to ski. Fortunately I can thank UVMFST for the consistent van hook up, as well as e.will and gypsyslayer and butters for skiing with me all the time
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LM4
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Northern Michigan University
Every single day, if you want.
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J.Desjardins
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First year at university. Fall: 3-5 tims a week. winter: no school, just enjoy the snow, and school in the summer. best thing i could of done, saved my love for skiing.
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wilcoxstarr
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if you want, you can ski 50-60 days no problem. Its all about scheduling and being ready to go right after class or bright and early. not every day is going to be an 8 hour vacation ski day, but if you get in 2 - 3 hours, you cant be mad about that. over my 4 years at CU, i skiied about 200 days
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Skibumsmith
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pussyfooterKids at U of U hit 100 days no problem, my freshman year I definitely got in 80 or 90 and slowly decreased from there. Freshman year seems to be the best to get as many in because you're likely to have easy classes and no work.


I wish I had easy classes my freshman year.
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DaNinjew
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I am currently a student at CU Boulder and was a 30 minute drive from eldora and ~2 hours from summit county.

that being said I am also an engineer so theres that.

I ski'd almost 40 days this year. Mostly weekends but always before class if I could.

words of advice *****always skip class for powder.
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DaNinjew
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I am currently a student at CU Boulder and was a 30 minute drive from eldora and ~2 hours from summit county.

that being said I am also an engineer so theres that.

I ski'd almost 40 days this year. Mostly weekends but always before class if I could.

words of advice *****always skip class for powder.
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860media*
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i go to keene state, and shred mt. snow 3 times a week
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bartles
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load your schedule on either M/W or T/Th. get to ski during the week when the mountains are empty and lines dont exist. got in almost 40 days doing that living in denver this season.
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Holte
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During the winter semester of my sophomore year, I crammed all my classes into a Tuesday/Thursday schedule so I could sleep in my car and ski 5 days a week. It was pretty cold and wet and stressful and brutal. But it must not have been that brutal since I kept doing it for 2 more years.
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SCOO-WOOP
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I ski around 100 days a year give or take a few days.

In my freshman year, I went straight through fall, summer, and spring semesters so I could get a semester ahead and be able to switch my year to a summer/fall school year with my spring (winter) semester as my break. It's worked out really well. Just sucks sometimes in the summer when everyone is out partying and the weather is beautiful and you're stuck indoors studying. But the skiing every day of the winter for the past 3 years thing is totally worth that.
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chris.G
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s-handI go to the University of Pittsburgh as a mechanical engineer. 7springs is about an hour away and I got about 40ish days in.


I went to school nearish to Pittsburgh, it was about an hour and 15 to 7springs and we would make it up 3-4 times a week. Get early classes - get in the car by 2, get there by 3:30, ski till 8, McD's on the way back, back at 9:30, repeat.
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maxro
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Usually somewhere around 2-4 days a week. I try to keep one day midweek mostly free so I can get out there around 11:00, then Friday-Sunday are fair game. Have to deal with weekend crowds but it's still worth it
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chris.G
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It all comes down to how you schedule your classes.

And don't get a girlfriend unless she skis - but that goes without saying for every aspect of life tho
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Jahoe_Stuyve
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Never ski on weekends unless your schedule is fucked. Nevada is a great school for being close to the mountains and I got to ski every day during the week. If you're dedicated you can hit boreal every night of the week depending on storms. If your advisor knows whats up they'll get you in the right classes to ski as much as possible.
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Download-My-Apps
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lIllII'd say I'm more of a slow learner. I'll set at my desk at 8 hours a day without distraction and just barely understand what I'm doing.


I think there is a difference between studying hard and studying smart. Personally, I find there is only so much work that you can do in a day. If you allow yourself too much time, you won't work efficiently. So rather than sitting at a desk for 8 hours, do something you like then do the work more effectively in less time. My GPA was always highest in the winter.
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gbalkman
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I skied 100+ days every year at Utah valley university, but it took 6 yrs to finish my undergrad program. I took m/w/f classes from 3-8, worked all other evenings and skied every day.
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ATLskier
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I went to Georgia Tech so not much. This is how it went
06-07(1st year) 24 days, good year
07-08, 15-18
08-09, 15
09-10, 10
10-11, 8
11-12, 14 (had 10 days during spring break)
12-13, 8-12
13-14, 17 (3 were in june when I moved to slc)

I either lacked time or money(big thing when you live in georgia and it's 3 hours to marginal skiing in NC or expensive trips out west). Time became a huge issue in later years when school was harder.

That said. Ill gladly sacrifice those years as my degrees(2 masters) got me a job in SLC, so this next season will likely contain more ski days than the entirety of my entire life.
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uyghur
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RazzDanhttp://www.sierranevada.edu/aspire-higher-fall-2014/

Sierra Nevada College - closest 4 year college to a ski area (0.5 miles)...why go anywhere else, north star only 20 mins away, also got boreal, alpine, squaw, sugar bowl, heavenly, homewood, kirkwood, Sierra-at-Tahoe and Mammoth about 3 hours away.

Seriously there is not a better school to go to if you want to ski as much as possible - simply said


This is like humbolt but for skiers instead of surfers
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Robby.
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treetrunksDoes anyone go to Fort Lewis in Durango?

I go to the fort as well and i ski about 3-4 times a week just have to make your schedule work around it and Purg is only a half hour away
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Erikgorn
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I got 54, while playing collegiate soccer. You get enough time to ski and ample amount.
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toastyteenagers
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pussyfooterI mean you could do the same thing at any college within 2hrs of a resort...


I could go to UNLV and ski shitty Mt. Charelston and dodge gapey snowboarders.

i could rant on about the peeps at my school and how "good" they are at snowboarding.

i asked this girl named Chanel and she said "I did the chairlift for the first time last time I snowboarded"
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toastyteenagers
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pussyfooterI mean you could do the same thing at any college within 2hrs of a resort...


I could go to UNLV and ski shitty Mt. Charelston and dodge gapey snowboarders.

i could rant on about the peeps at my school and how "good" they are at snowboarding.

i asked this girl named Chanel and she said "I did the chairlift for the first time last time I snowboarded"
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Smuffy
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If you're trilly go to U of U and set yourself up with a chill major, take summer classes instead of spring and ski 100 days a year. but that's if you're trilly
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Ryanvdonk
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i got 85 last year, taking a full load, while working 20-30 hours a week and traveling for comps...probably could have been around 100, but definitely were a few days i couldn't motivate the early start for a solo drive (word to the wise, you'll never take the lazy route when you have a carpool going), and then some car issues cutting the end of my season short. you can ski almost as much as you want given that the school you go to is close enough that you can make day (and half day) trips up to shred. as was said before, if you want to ski a lot, some other things will have to be reduced, like the party/social thing, though you can still have fun.
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powderwhore92
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Honestly college is all about priorities (as people have said before). If you are fine giving up the college social life and buckling down during the week to get work done, skiing a lot is a very realistic goal. I live 2.5 hours away from the resorts and generally get up skiing about once a week. If you are motivated and work all week nonstop you will be able to ski 2 or 3 days a week.
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Ali_Dibden
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RailersailerIf you go to liberty university you can walk 2 minutes and be at the worlds largest snowflex park and big air facility in the United States.

but I dunno if snowflex is considered skiing.


Anyone from the UK would probably beg to differ.
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KBake
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living only 5 minutes away from the mountain and having night skiing till 10, I skied probably 6 days a week
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JayRich
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RailersailerIf you go to liberty university you can walk 2 minutes and be at the worlds largest snowflex park and big air facility in the United States.

but I dunno if snowflex is considered skiing.


Liberty is so fucking strict though. haha
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JayRich
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treetrunksTitle says it all


This past winter, I skied 5-6 times every week. The closest place to ski is about 7 miles from campus. I have a January term where it's one class for three hours every day for three weeks. There was actually a ski class offered for this J-term, and it counts as like your recreational credits or something. I took that class and got to ski everyday. I would come back from class, get something to eat at my apartment, and just go right back to ski. It was an awesome January.
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ndye
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What I do is load my schedule super aggressively on individual days and then live at the mountain and commute to school the 2 or 3 days a week. If the mountain you are near has a good scene for the younger folk it's ideal
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kung_powpow
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TOAST.I managed about 90 in a season of just over 3 months.


Isn't that almost every day?
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_steffen_
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U of U i did like 75ish days last year.
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skisi
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lost count after 100 this year as a freshman
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