Recruitment Weekend

This past weekend was the recruitment of new students for the Pharmacology program. We had 5 students come in town to interview, and 4 of them spent the day on Saturday with current students out and about (description to follow). My responsibilities were as follows:

Friday - meet with recruits for breakfast, walk around a recruit to her interviews and answer any questions that arose, lunch, and a few more interviews. I then skipped the dinner with faculty and going out (to a bar) that night.

Saturday - Meet students at their hotel, hop in the limos (oh yeah, we had limos), go to black light putt-putt (or mini-golf) [I shot a 47 (-6), but lost by 1 stroke...2nd out of 12 isn't bad though], then back to the limos for a trip up to Red Rocks, then a limo ride down to the Coors Brewery tour, back to the hotel, chill for an hour, limo to dinner and pool at the Wynkoop [better at putt-putt than pool], then limoed off to the grad student party at the Irish Snug, walked the recruits back to the hotel, drove the inebriated students back to their respective homes. (bed by 2 am).

Sunday - Back to the hotel to meet two of the recruits for some wall-climbing (yep, I did it, pics to follow). It was more fun than expected. Return home and count myself done recruiting. A long, busy weekend.

As promised, pics of me on a wall.


Oh yeah, the prospective students were all pretty cool (some more than others). It would be good to see a couple of them come out here.