/sci/ - Science & Math

Are you tenured? If so, how long did it take you?

And also, what type of university are you at? A large public state university, small private one, etc? What do you think of your math colleagues? Do they do a good job of running their department or not?

I won 20k in scholarships at various science fairs, got into a top university with the experience, and I will probably eventually pursue a PhD in one of the hard sciences based upon my experience back then.

In other words, I think they are a good idea. Regular old public HS, btw.

>>3590964

I remember reading some news article awhile back that said basically 100% of teenage/young adult males watch porn. I doubt it's different at Harvard. Regarding 4chan, I know a several people that are on here. The concentration of Harvard 4chan people is almost certainly higher then it was when I was in high school.

Regarding your pic, I feel like I have seen the movie but I can't place it.

>>3590952

There are not many people with assburgers at Harvard - far more are at MIT or Caltech. The heavy emphasis the adcoms put on rec letters (and to a lesser extent interviews) essentially disqualifies most for admission, with the exception of a handful of math geniuses.

>>3590943

about once a day.

>>3590900

this.

Also, shit like this is the most annoying thing about being a Harvard student. When you say something totally common sense, everyone automatically thinks you are being a pretentious dick...just because you go to Harvard.

>>3590861

Usually they talk to your school counselor/teachers if they are not sure. A small minority of applications get a real audit if they think you're full of shit.

>>3590826

Enough .

>>3590819

Its not easy to get in as a black/hispanic person, just easier then for white/asian people.

>>3590784

Unfortunately you are correct. The advantage to being black is massive - something like +400 points on the SAT relative to white/asian applicants.

>>3590782

Have you looked into questbridge?

>>3590771

depends. You still need top stats, but if you want to get in on a hardship basis you generally need some unusual hard luck story that catches the admissions committee's eye.

>>3590766

Somewhere below "insane talent" with some "interesting person" thrown in. I had some national level science research and debate awards, but not quite the wins necessary for the "insane talent" admit category. The "interesting person" part came from the fact that blacksmithing has been a longtime hobby of mine - I make swords.

>>3590733

honestly? You probably just weren't interesting enough. In the average class, once you subtract minority/athlete places and those with insane talents, there are only about 600 slots for regular people. Harvard gets 35k applicants every year, and probably 15k of them are smart enough to do OK here, so final decisions come down to soft and subjective factors, and filling out a balanced class. An awesome applicant that is awesome in "normal" ways will often be rejected because there's just too many of them.

>>3590732

I'm not OP, just another student. I'm a rising sophomore and I have not decided on a major (or "concentration" in havardspeak) yet. It will probably be either economics or physics though. Maybe CS.

>>3590717

I'm not the idiot calling out "faggie" and similar such things.

>>3590707

Why not take a new picture? Laziness. It's 3AM here, I am about to go to bed, and I have no idea where my wallet is. Too much work for an anonymous imageboard.

How would I prove my identity, other then with a student ID?

>>3590663

I was tired of everyone claiming I was full of shit whenever they were bashing my school.

>>3590638

40k/year for tuition and about 12k/year for room and board. The school covers pretty much everything.

>>3590621

how about this then? Pic is old (took it for the last /sci/ harvard thread, lol) but the trip is correct.

Transportation is plane (or train, to go back to school this year I'm trying Amtrak) tickets. I live around 700 miles from school, and 3 breaks per year adds up. I live on campus as most students do - apartment rent in Cambridge is crazy expensive. And I pay around 200 bucks per semester for books - the other money is for random shit, like eating out on occasion.

So much bullshit in this thread.....

OP, this is basically the gist of it. The United States, like many nations in the world, borrows money on a regular basis to fund its' budget deficits. In most countries, this borrowing is automatic - whenever the government passes a budget, the treasury borrows what is needed to cover the ordered costs. In the US however the law and political tradition dictates that authorization to borrow money is separate from budget authorization, such that congress needs to pass both a budget AND authorize the treasury to borrow up to X dollars to pay for that budget. At the moment the democrats and republicans cannot agree on a budget (they are trying to reduce the deficit but disagree as to how to do so). And the republicans primarily are refusing to raise the debt limit as a political tool to force an agreement on budget cuts first. Without borrowing any money, the government cannot cover all of its' obligations and something would be left unpaid. Because the US would be capable of borrowing money, but would not for political reasons, the country would be in a technical "default" scenario, but not a traditional one.


Regarding consequences, the reason inconsistency exists here is because quite simply no one really knows what will happen - for almost 200 years now, American sovereign debt has been the single safest investment in the world. While one credit agency (standard & poor's) has suggested that they might drop the US's credit rating to AA+ from AAA, no really clear consequences exist. Generally speaking, borrowing costs could rise, but that depends more on public perception - if people think US debt is safe (they do) then borrowing costs will stay low.

The big differences are political - democrats are emphasizing the downsides of a default, making it out to be the apocalypse for political reasons, while the republicans are doing the opposite.

harvard econ major here.

harvard > MIT

>>3399839

eh, it's late. I'm bored. I was challenged, and I have nothing else to do. Why not?

>>3399769

how about my ID?

>>1866852

By definition IQ tests are normalized around an average of 100. σ = 15 for nearly all IQ tests; this places anon at slightly less then 1 standard deviation below average, or at around the 30th percentile. Not genius, but hardly retarded as anything from 85 to 115 is considered about average.