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Pub Crawl 2K

The first month at CMU is a very important time for CS PhD students. Important decisions such as choosing an advisors and research area must be made and classes chosen to name a few. But, more important than all of this, it's time to learn where some of the bars are!

Now, for the good stuff:

    Who: All CS students that are at least 21 years old and want to go see a few of the pubs around Pittsburgh.
    Where: Gather at Wean 5409 after the Scavenger Hunt.
    When: Around 8 pm.
    Why: Hey, why not?
    And: Please bring $$$. (The department does not pay for this event.)
    And a US driver's license or a passport to ensure that we don't have pesky problems.
This year the pub crawl is going to take place on the South Side on East Carson Street. (We figured yinz needed a little break from Shahdyside and Squill.) We will probably be visiting: the Lava Lounge (2), Zythos (2), Fat Heads (2) and Dees (2).

If you want to join the tour while in progress you can call Chuck on his cell phone at 412-654-8451 or Nathaniel on his cell phone at 724-712-0608 to find out where we are.

Here is a web site with some more random information about some of the bars in Pittsburgh.

And some other stuff. This is not going to be a tour of the clubs. Hopefully someone else will arrange an informal club outting. Also, this is not going to be a comprehensive tour of the interesting pubs. We'll definitely be missing some interesting brew pubs. (I'd recommend the Church Brew Works on Liberty ave for the ambiance - but not the beer and the Sharp Edge for the beer - but not the scenery. And of course there's always Chiodo's and many more.)

Getting There and Getting Home

We will either bus it there or get some scavenger hunt drivers to drive us. The "tour" itself will involve a fair bit of walking.

We'll of course be responsible for getting each other home. There should be one or more grad students bussing / walking to Squirrel Hill, Shadyside and campus. There may even be some rides available. There shouldn't be any problems getting home.

If you are worried about walking home alone, send me email with your address and I'll try to make sure that someone is heading that way.

chuck@cs.cmu.edu

Random Advice from a Paul Bennett (a student)

"btw, you may want to warn foreign students that if they have a birthdate day.month.year that can parse as a 21st birthday not yet come as month/day/year, they may want to either get some form of state ID or be prepared to put up with a few months of ignorant American bartenders that have never considered writing a date differently."