Pub Crawl '99

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 campus
• Where : We'll congregate at the TG
• When : Around 7pm
• Why : Why not?
• And : Please bring a US driver's license or a passport to ensure that we don't have pesky problems.

And the bad stuff. This is not going to be a tour of the clubs. Hopefully someone else will arrange an informal club outting later. Also, this is not going to be a comprehensive tour of the interesting pubs. We're probably going to miss the interesting brew pubs (I would particularly recommend the Church Brew Works on Liberty ave). Unfortunately, we're probably not going to have enough cars and designated drivers to get everyone away from walking distance.

And, since I just found it, here is a website that offers some random information about some of the bars in Pittsburgh .

Walking and Getting Home

This "tour" will involve a fair bit of walking. We can plan an exact route or just a random direction when we get a group together.

We'll of course be responsible for getting each other home. There should be one or more grad students 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.

crpalmer@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."