Headed to UND

[juxtapilot]

Fargo is a decent town, MSP is awesome. GFK is a craphole. It's not even ND that's bad, it's GFK specifically.

Honestly, the town smells terrible year round, there's nothing to do and very few restaurants that are acceptable.

Yes, GFK has it's own culture and it is possible to get "culture shock" when arriving to that town. It's a lack of diversity that's so shocking. For a university of UND's size, the turnout for their International Center activities was pretty sad. (However, the turnout to the frat's "white trash" party was pretty nice.)

[/opinion]

 

[middies10]

Fargo is a decent town, MSP is awesome. GFK is a craphole. It's not even ND that's bad, it's GFK specifically.

Honestly, the town smells terrible year round, there's nothing to do and very few restaurants that are acceptable.

Yes, GFK has it's own culture and it is possible to get "culture shock" when arriving to that town. It's a lack of diversity that's so shocking. For a university of UND's size, the turnout for their International Center activities was pretty sad. (However, the turnout to the frat's "white trash" party was pretty nice.)

[/opinion]

And nobody wanted it :rotfl:

 

[BIGRIG]

Care to elaborate on the excellent "culture" Grand Forks has?

Says the guy from Duluth. Oh wise one, tell us what excellent "culture" Duluth has. Keeping in mind that just because there are hills that doesn't mean there is culture. Weren't you just telling us that you were considering going back UND for the business program after crying about how bad the school was? You sir have ZERO credibility.

As far as Juxtapilot and his gripes about the International Center and their cultural activities turnout................who cares?

 

[Roger, Roger]

Hey, DLH is a neat town. Lots of arts activities and hippies, plus beautiful scenery. Kinda reminds me of Juneau actually...

 

[BIGRIG]

Hey, DLH is a neat town. Lots of arts activities and hippies, plus beautiful scenery. Kinda reminds me of Juneau actually...

Wow arts and activities sounds like sooooo much fun. Maybe GFK will get some kind of craft fair so they can attract some more hippies - that will give it some cultural awareness. Kind of makes me want to go down to the International Center and talk about my feelings. Oh wait, there just isn't enough turnout there.

 

[FAYEV]

Wow arts and activities sounds like sooooo much fun. Maybe GFK will get some kind of craft fair so they can attract some more hippies - that will give it some cultural awareness. Kind of makes me want to go down to the International Center and talk about my feelings. Oh wait, there just isn't enough turnout there.

Sweet...arts activities. It would be great if UND had an art museum on campus...oh wait...

 

[derg]

Remember when there was talk of moving ERAU-PRC down to the former Williams AFB and the reasoning given?

We would have traded the "Dude, thurrs no wimmen!" for a "Dude, all thar wimmen wont give a 19 year old broke Riddle student like me no attenshun!"

 

[Stinger]

Fargo is a decent town, MSP is awesome. GFK is a craphole. It's not even ND that's bad, it's GFK specifically.

Honestly, the town smells terrible year round, there's nothing to do and very few restaurants that are acceptable.

Yes, GFK has it's own culture and it is possible to get "culture shock" when arriving to that town. It's a lack of diversity that's so shocking. For a university of UND's size, the turnout for their International Center activities was pretty sad. (However, the turnout to the frat's "white trash" party was pretty nice.)

[/opinion]

What non-chain restaurants did you go to? I was in a group of friends that would go to a random place to eat every couple weeks. We cut up a list of every place to eat in Grand Forks into a ziplock baggie and drew out of those so we didn't have a clue where we were going.

Didn't you go to high school in Helena? About 30,000 people live there I think, so I'd imagine that Grand Forks would have more to do.

 

[juxtapilot]

Wow arts and activities sounds like sooooo much fun. Maybe GFK will get some kind of craft fair so they can attract some more hippies - that will give it some cultural awareness. Kind of makes me want to go down to the International Center and talk about my feelings. Oh wait, there just isn't enough turnout there.

Share what feelings? That cultural awareness is a bad thing?

What non-chain restaurants did you go to? I was in a group of friends that would go to a random place to eat every couple weeks. We cut up a list of every place to eat in Grand Forks into a ziplock baggie and drew out of those so we didn't have a clue where we were going.

Didn't you go to high school in Helena? About 30,000 people live there I think, so I'd imagine that Grand Forks would have more to do.

I went to a couple restaurants in GFK but there's nothing special there as far as I'm concerned. On the other hand, a short drive down to Fargo there's some nice places to go out. Sanders in GFK was pretty good, there was a Chinese place that I don't remember the name of that was okay, but anything like Red Pepper, Paradiso, or Italian Moon I'd steer clear of.

Everyone has their own ideas on what's good, and thats totally cool. I just think that if I, as a prospective student were to read this, I may be able to make a better decision on whether or not I want to live in Grand Forks. I wish I had known what I was getting myself into when I left Oregon for Grand Forks. I had only been to GFK once, but had been to ND many times. In fact I still have family in Fargo and MSP... So I don't hate North Dakota or the midwest, I just don't like Grand Forks.

I went to HS in Helena for one year, and spent the majority of my weekends snowboarding... There's actually a lot to do there, and I would say that I like Helena better than Grand Forks (though I wouldn't want to live in either of those places.) I spent the following 3 years at a high school in Portland, a town that has everything I like.

Again just opinion...

 

[Stinger]

Share what feelings? That cultural awareness is a bad thing?



I went to a couple restaurants in GFK but there's nothing special there as far as I'm concerned. On the other hand, a short drive down to Fargo there's some nice places to go out. Sanders in GFK was pretty good, there was a Chinese place that I don't remember the name of that was okay, but anything like Red Pepper, Paradiso, or Italian Moon I'd steer clear of.

Everyone has their own ideas on what's good, and thats totally cool. I just think that if I, as a prospective student were to read this, I may be able to make a better decision on whether or not I want to live in Grand Forks. I wish I had known what I was getting myself into when I left Oregon for Grand Forks. I had only been to GFK once, but had been to ND many times. In fact I still have family in Fargo and MSP... So I don't hate North Dakota or the midwest, I just don't like Grand Forks.

I went to HS in Helena for one year, and spent the majority of my weekends snowboarding... There's actually a lot to do there, and I would say that I like Helena better than Grand Forks (though I wouldn't want to live in either of those places.) I spent the following 3 years at a high school in Portland, a town that has everything I like.

Again just opinion...

One of the places I never went to eat was Sanders. Or Toasted Frog either I guess.

And I thought you were in Helena for longer than 1 year haha. I've only been to Great Divide for skiing once about 2 years ago. It was over Christmas break and there wasn't much snow so I was avoiding rocks on the upper runs. Pretty icy too. We usually do our skiing at Whitefish or Showdown.

 

[juxtapilot]

One of the places I never went to eat was Sanders. Or Toasted Frog either I guess.

And I thought you were in Helena for longer than 1 year haha. I've only been to Great Divide for skiing once about 2 years ago. It was over Christmas break and there wasn't much snow so I was avoiding rocks on the upper runs. Pretty icy too. We usually do our skiing at Whitefish or Showdown.

Haha, yea I mean it was never very good, but definitely better than nothing!

 

[BIGRIG]

Share what feelings? That cultural awareness is a bad thing?

Share my feelings on cultural awareness. But really, cultural awareness is so sweet. Its probably the sweetest thing ever. I base most of the decisions I make in life around what other cultures do and how I can be more sensitive to them. I also pick what school I go to based on how exciting their international center is.

 

[challenger]

Are you guys really complaining about a college town?

Holy cow man, it's a state college with a reasonable guy:girl ratio. Be a little creative!

If I could survive five years in a small retirement village in the middle of Arizona with a college with a 12:1 guy:girl ratio, you can survive GFK.

Really? Reeeeeee leeeeeeeee?

Now if they put that aviation school in the best town on Earth, you probably couldn't afford it and you'd be complaining about the cost and how much more fake/GQ all the competition is for the ladies.

If you could make a profit with a major collegiate aviation program in San Diego, Santa Barbara or Malibu Beach, there'd be one.

In the meantime welcome to Daytona, Grand Forks, Prescott and W. Lafayette.

Well, I will personally tell you Dough, the girls are way skinnier/taller more pretty and less stuck up at at UMD versus UND, I am loving it every day.

With culture, you guys called my bluff, all I was looking for was people who were not D bags and I found them back home. There is more to do here however, I do not see how that can be denied personally.

Also, I learned a lot about myself, why not fly for a third of the price and major in something useful, besides if I fly for a living I want to do so in the Military, not like they care what I major in

 

[DhruvK]

Ok man, we get it. UND didn't work for YOU. Every poster in this forum is not YOU, nor are YOUR opinions and impressions of GF necessarily going to jive with the next guy's. I agree, Duluth is a great place to be and in all honesty probably more fun than GF on a daily basis, but then again your preconditioned bias against UND/GF is likely keeping you from making a fair assessment of that.

Honestly as cliche as it sounds, if you're the type of person whose ability to have fun depends more on the people you're with rather than your surroundings, you can survive UND (and college overall for that matter).

I've been here 3 years now and I can honestly still think of worse places to be.

 

[Dugie8]

Ok man, we get it. UND didn't work for YOU. Every poster in this forum is not YOU, nor are YOUR opinions and impressions of GF necessarily going to jive with the next guy's. I agree, Duluth is a great place to be and in all honesty probably more fun than GF on a daily basis, but then again your preconditioned bias against UND/GF is likely keeping you from making a fair assessment of that.

Honestly as cliche as it sounds, if you're the type of person whose ability to have fun depends more on the people you're with rather than your surroundings, you can survive UND (and college overall for that matter).

I've been here 3 years now and I can honestly still think of worse places to be.

You could be stuck in Rochester MN.....

 

[jfuchtm]

Ok man, we get it. UND didn't work for YOU. Every poster in this forum is not YOU, nor are YOUR opinions and impressions of GF necessarily going to jive with the next guy's.

:clap:

 

[middies10]

Ok man, we get it. UND didn't work for YOU. Every poster in this forum is not YOU, nor are YOUR opinions and impressions of GF necessarily going to jive with the next guy's. I agree, Duluth is a great place to be and in all honesty probably more fun than GF on a daily basis, but then again your preconditioned bias against UND/GF is likely keeping you from making a fair assessment of that.

Honestly as cliche as it sounds, if you're the type of person whose ability to have fun depends more on the people you're with rather than your surroundings, you can survive UND (and college overall for that matter).

I've been here 3 years now and I can honestly still think of worse places to be.

+1

 

[JaceTheAce]

Wow arts and activities sounds like sooooo much fun. Maybe GFK will get some kind of craft fair so they can attract some more hippies - that will give it some cultural awareness. Kind of makes me want to go down to the International Center and talk about my feelings. Oh wait, there just isn't enough turnout there.

The arts are an important presence in any culture.

 

[gotWXdagain]

Ok man, we get it. UND didn't work for YOU. Every poster in this forum is not YOU, nor are YOUR opinions and impressions of GF necessarily going to jive with the next guy's. I agree, Duluth is a great place to be and in all honesty probably more fun than GF on a daily basis, but then again your preconditioned bias against UND/GF is likely keeping you from making a fair assessment of that.

Honestly as cliche as it sounds, if you're the type of person whose ability to have fun depends more on the people you're with rather than your surroundings, you can survive UND (and college overall for that matter).

I've been here 3 years now and I can honestly still think of worse places to be.

Hey can you tell me what the score was in the game last night?

 

[derg]

Well, I will personally tell you Dough, the girls are way skinnier/taller more pretty and less stuck up at at UMD versus UND, I am loving it every day.

With culture, you guys called my bluff, all I was looking for was people who were not D bags and I found them back home. There is more to do here however, I do not see how that can be denied personally.

Also, I learned a lot about myself, why not fly for a third of the price and major in something useful, besides if I fly for a living I want to do so in the Military, not like they care what I major in

Anyone ever notice that I'm not in the ERAU forum?

Ask yourself, "Self? Why is that so?"