/sci/ - Science & Math

uni of berkely
feminist literature with a concentration in hidden patriarchy of mathematical publications
i'm a feminist

Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge

Shitposting and memes in the Hapsburg Empire and their consequences to the war of Spanish Succession.

Yale
English and Film
Yeah, fulfilling and gives me a lot of time to work on my films/novels

University of Milan Bicocca, Mathematics.

>>8317375
Algebra 1

>>8317375
Geometry 1

Are these threads not allowed? Cause they always seem to get deleted

>>8317375
Laboratory of mathematics and informatics

>>8317375
Linear algebra and geometry

>>8317375
Mathematical Analysis

>>8317375
Physics 1

>>8317375
>>8317378
>>8317381
>>8317388
>>8317392
>>8317396
>>8317401
An overview on the topics covered in the first year of Mathematics in Italy

>>8317325
anyone starting here in october?

>>8317384
i hope not. i mean, its almost always a dick-measuring contest but sometimes its useful knowing what other unis are like if you want to plan doing a course there.

mods, please dont delete

>>8317408
I have a couple of friends doing maths in Milan, but they study at Statale.

Wichita State University
Master's in Aerospace Engineering

It's pretty ok if you're in the aerospace dept studying composites, but everything else is mediocre

>tfw your university in Kansas somehow gets infested with SJWs

Caltech
Physics
Feelsgoodman

University of Alabama
Majored in Biology, Physics, Economics, and Shotgunning Beers.

>>8317591
Yeah, chemboii here, wbu?

>>8317331
>hidden patriarchy of mathematical publications

University of Texas
Applied Math with a computational sciences cert
Yeah its neato

wpi here undecided freshman

Rutgers
Materials Science Engineering

University of Oklahoma, Biology

Who university of Kent here?

>>8317325
>tfw mediocrity

Drake University

Actuarial Science

Passed Exam FM in August, feels good man

Harvard University
Quantum Physics and Theoretical Vectors
It's okay. I expected the students to be a bit smarter however. I was also underwhelmed by the rigor of my theoretical vector integration class.

>>8317903
>going to Harvard for the educational content

lel

Elon University
Physics and Biochemistry
Fucking love it here

Biochemistry

It's fun going to a private school

grad school
physics
most beautiful campus in the best state

University of cincinnati
Quantum I, Mechanics, math physics
So far it's pretty fun, but the workload of classes and TAing is a bit stressful

>>8317615
Master's in Aerospace Engineering here too (at NC State).

It's pretty nice. It could use a little more variety in offered courses and research topics, but other than that, it has great academics and faculty packaged in a big state college experience (if that's the kind of thing you like).

>>8317591
Exeter alum here.

>not throwing up the don's garden
>any year

In my defense I'd never had white wine before and it was terrible.

What's the best Aerospace engineering school?

>>8317806
Been looking into that school. How is it so far?

>>8318114
CU Boulder

>>8317408
italy is shit
you have no schools in the top 500

>>8317806
sam coache, is that you?

>>8318114
brendan rieble, is that you?

Indian institute of technology Mumbai
Engineering physics

University of Illinois

Electrical Engineering

No. This meme (((school))) has been leaking faculty and rankings for the past few years and I just hope I can bail into a respectable grad school before it becomes the proverbial bumfuck state or the university equivalent of Somalia.

>tfw when self sabotaging administration makes your school shittier than it already is

>>8317331
Why are you here, fellow cal bear

>>8317889
I almost went there. Decided not to because no AE and too small.

>>8318120
lmao no

>>8318231
be glad you didn't. this place is a meme school.

Boilerbros WW@

>>8318067
Same for mathematics. I like it DESU

>>8318259
Mine is a PhD

>>8317835
RU RAH RAH

hey, English/CSci here

>>8318114
It's all abet, nigga, just go where you want

>>8318289
what field

>>8317331
>>8318207
Are you fuckbois enjoying the "new" enrollment system?

university of utah
maths
eh

>>8317835
Ece

UCLA
Math
Starting this fall as a CC transfer, looks pretty dope.

>>8317325
UWF
Master's in Applied Experimental Psychology
Loving it. In class yesterday, we talked about the difference between academics and non-academics reading studies, and how non-academics take everything at face value while also not understanding how to properly interpret and comprehend a study.

Graduate school is great.

>>8318437
Huh, I went to UWF for my undergrad in physics. Always cool to see someone else go to that small shitty school.

>>8318465
I hear(d) a lot of good things about it. Is it really a bad school? I'm digging the professors I've interacted with in my program thus far but of course it could be completely different than yours.

>>8318501
Honestly I really liked my time there. Most of the professors are from pretty prestigious institutions and chose the job there because they wanted to teach. UWF is mainly a teaching university, so while that was slightly disappointing in my field, it's still pretty great overall. I just make fun of it because it's a pretty unknown university compared to others, and has some pretty low standards to get in.

>>8318509
Fair enough then. Teaching emphasis sounds nice and I'm sure that'll benefit me extremely. Does seem relatively standard as far as undergrads go, and sure are lots of darkies running around.

>>8318142
>you have no schools in the top 500
not true

Our teaching is pretty good, but we desperatley lack funding and infrastructures aren't always the best. There's no money for research and almost all PhD students are forced to go abroad, hence our low scores in those rankings.

>>8318165
>tfw you didn't clear jee
In my defence i didn't study at all.Gonna try again.
Do many people in your college browse 4chan?

>>8318142
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/engineering-and-technology/2015#sorting=rank+region=140+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=
ok

>>8317835
Physics here

>>8317664
MathPhil
maths on the street
philosophy in the sheets
what college you in?
congrats on getting in btw. buzzing for freshers?

>>8317396
>>8317401

Looks like the same shit covered in every school. For some dumb reason my school won't let me take Linear Algebra until I've first completed a "topics in discrete mathematics" course which is kind of some fluffy bullshit, so the way my schedule is laid out I'm not going to be able to take it until the second hald of my second year.

But I will be doing Diff Eq and Multivariable this year. I don't really understand everything to do with their curriculum, but it is what it is.

I'm American. Study physics and maths at a small liberal arts school. Transferred in from CC. It's nice, not prestigious in the wider community for this field, but I really like my department and professors. They have some pretty impressive resumes and work and the department is small and close-knit. Get to work very closely with the faculty, although I'm not sure why some of them are teaching at a sleepy little school like this when they could be doing "bigger" things. I like it here, though, and it's obvious my professors love teaching and love the material they teach.

>>8317325
Im applying to all of these universities and also uc Berkley. Any tips?

>>8317331
Obviously a troll post lol

Community college. Electrical engineering with a double major in Math and minors in physics and computer science
Yeah i have a lot of free time

University of loughborough
Materials science
Its ok here but im Looking to go somewhere more prestigious for my master's

>>8319075
>qs rankings
Fuck off

>>8320266
be black

>>8320319
thanks

>>8320266

I assume you have a good gpa and test scores. Honestly if you're a senior the only thing you can do now is ensure your essays are badass as fuck. Don't be afraid to think outside the box and really spend a lot of time on them.

McGill
Math & computer science, possible minor in econ.
Liking it so far.

>>8317931
the hoity toitiest school in the state of NC

>>8318430
Did you come from a California cc?
I'm at a cc right now and would love to transfer to UCLA but it seems like for any UC school, you're fucked if you're coming from an out of state cc. Like 94% of Berkeley transfers come from in state

I'm considering UCCS, UNR, WSU for an MS CS. I have a BS CS, GPA won't be an issue.

These would all be out of state. I live on the East Coast and want to move out West for a couple years. Trying to keep costs down, despite being out of state. I have money saved up to support myself, and I'm trying not to take out loans.

I looked at several schools, but a lot of them have easily double the tuition of those I listed. The cost of tuition at some of the schools was kind of shocking really.

who here /bestpublicschoolinthenation ?

chemistry and math

i love it so much. there are so many opportunities to get involved in meaningful research

who /mexico/ here

we have a pretty shitty coat of arms

>>8320410
is that you jack

>>8320358

University of British Columbia here. Arguably a far superior school compared to McGill.

Does the school you get your undergrad from have any bearing on where you get accepted for a masters program?

>>8320362
That's a pretty big assertion when they have competition like UNC (public ivy league HURRRR) and HPU (the aristocratic country club of higher education, kinda like Elon)...

Polytechnique Montreal
3rd year in electrical Engineering
It's tough and fun.

>>8320394
Where do these skeleton gifs come from. I need more.

>>8320358
What city?

Bachelor of science. Still undecided between pure maths and mathematical physics. I won't have to make my mind up until next year, though, since the required subjects are very similar.
>Do you like it?
It's ok. Arguably the best uni in Australia, but that's not saying a whole lot. Our universities mostly exist to capitalise on the growing Chinese middle class.

>>8318349
God give back my telebears. The new system is literally what community colleges use, I thought we're better than that. We have 1700 fucking students in 61a this year, why can't we use one of them?

realized i wasted my first two years here nbd

Anyone else starting here in a few weeks?

>>8320457
University of Toronto here. Arguably a far superior school compared to UBC.

>>8320647
>>8320457
inb4 some Concordia arts student posts

ANU in Australia.
Studying physics and mathematics.
There's a lot of autistic people, you have to deal with SJWs often, most people here are ugly and this uni is located in Canberra, which is a pretty boring place. But it's arguably the best uni for physics/mathematics in Australia and there's great research and networking oppourtunities. Plus weed is decriminalized here so at least I don't have to worry about that (this is actually the reason I decided to come here instead of UofMelbourne).

>>8319513
>math on the street
>philosophy in the sheets
KEK

>>8320486
Are you getting hard about getting your ring? I hear you Canucks get a ring for being an engineer. Sounds fucking gay, but I guess gay shit is part of being an engineer.

Started here a few weeks ago, CS & Physics/Astronomy. Supposedly it's just as good as the ivies but without the same difficulty to get in - that remains to be seen. I applied to a ton of top schools but didn't get into any because I didn't have any direction in high school (I was motivated, but I didn't know what I wanted to do, plus the school was shitty and average and small with basically no resources).

Taking:
Discrete Math (self-study)
Honors Calculus I (all proof-based, should be pretty cool, awesome professor, apparently going to be basically the same course caltech students take because he went there)
Data Structures & Algorithms
Mechanics Honors (also supposedly awesome professor)
The Solar System & its Origin

I really like that they have an open curriculum here, so I only have to take like one bullshit class, the rest is almost entirely my choice.

It seems like there's a lot of idiots here, but also a lot of smart people, you just have to find them.

>>8320748
I sure am.
It's as gay as you think yeah, it even have to be wear on your pinky finger.
It's just to show off and have a reason to feel superior desu.
Lots of the people who graduate from my uni are self entitled prick, still a good uni. Hell we even gun down feminists here!

>>8317325
Stanford
Chemical Engineering
I think I'm gonna off myself pretty soon

>>8320744
I live in Melbourne and have seen people openly smoking weed in parks plenty of times. I think the fact that it hasn't been decriminalised actually makes cops less inclined to hassle people about it. Cops have consciences too (believe it or not) and they generally realise it's not worth fucking someone's life up over a harmless drug.

>>8317325
>What university are you at /sci/?
UNCG

>What course?
Anthropology Major

1. Cultural Anthropology
2. Biological (Physical) Anthropology
3. Bio Anthro Lab
4. Archaeology
5. Lost Tribes and Sunken Lands

>Do you like it?
Very much so.
Department is actually interested in the teaching aspect of being a professor and developing the skills necessary to be a good scientist and anthropologist. The courses often don't follow the standard notes and 5 exams I see infesting other departments (even from other schools) which actually makes them enjoyable and effective.

>>8320643
i hate you

>>8317796
>UT

ayyyy

which one tho

UT Austin
Dual degree in Civil Engineering and History
I like it

>>8320842
Woah chill?

>>8320842
someone didn't get accepted

>>8320842

>>8320870
>>8320873
>>8320879

Yup ;_;

>>8320885
Boo hoo, get the fuck over it and man up.

>>8320891
but i go to a meme university senpai

>>8320894
Should have worked harder in high school, you're just embarrassing yourself now.

>>8320895
yup, i'm pretty worthless i'll admit.

>>8318167
Oh god do you really think we're that fucked

>>8320895
Sheeit, I had a 4.0 and doubt any non-shitter college would have taken me even with my top test scores.

>>8320902
Nobody will say it but we are that fucked. If you've been paying attention for the past few years places like Mich have made a significant improvement whereas Illinois is either steady or stagnant and leaning towards the latter now

>>8320905
Should have worked harder in high school, you're just embarrassing yourself now.

>>8320895
>>8320908
>implying high school matters

>>8320908
Kek, I'm not that guy.

Still, it doesn't matter how hard you work if you aren't born in the right place.

>>8320906
Let's see if we leak more faculty this year....

What do you think is causing the problems?

>>8320894
It really sucks going to a shitty university to be honest.

Almost everyone at my third world university is either lazy and passionless and/or retarded failing several years and still hoping to get a job on graduation. Everyone thinks academia is just a means to a paycheck.

The best professors here graduated at MIT etc., but since they're too busy with their own shit to talk to you much outside of meetings, it's lonely as hell. They think you're a genius just because of how unambitious and lazy the other students. You solve some problem stemming from top-tier research groups and they tell to consider a post-doc with them as if it's still that easy to get to top-tier universities like it was in their time.

It hurts Anons. Should've just racked up debt and gone to a 1st world university.

>>8317325
JUST

>>8320911
t.pajeet
I know how you feel pham

>live in El Salvador
>senior
>great test scores and essays
>mediocre gpa
JUST

>>8320912
We just did leak some more faculty this year. Overbye, to be exact. And he's not some lowly AP or anything, he has a chair for fuck sake.

It's quite obvious what the problem is. The UIUC administration and leadership is goddamn retarded if not downright corrupt. Every policy has been skewed towards making this place worse every passing year, which is a fucking shame.

If you look at places like GT, they've caught up with and/or are exceeding us. Why? They've been doing things like stepping up their game by tightening selectivity on their student body. Same with Mich - they're going around and buying professors because they saved up money.

Meanwhile UIUC has no money, and basically has an open border policy on undergrad engineering meaning any mouthbreathing fucktard can enter just to give them that money, but it has the side effect of stupefying the entire university and widening the acceptance rate in the name of "diversity", which kills rankings and reputation.

UIUC is literally the Sweden of engineering schools.

>>8320520
what year are you brah

commerce here senpai

>>8320930
Ouch. I'm new and didn't realize this was happening. Any other bad news you want to tell me? :(

>>8320909

He's upset he didn't get into a good school.

So I said he should have tried harder in high school.

I don't think you should ever really bring up high school once you're out of it, but high school does matter. What you do in high school dictates where you go to college, and that matters.

>>8320937
There is a good reason why UIUC doesn't publish selectivity information out in the open.

First, they are afraid of offending some in-stater feefees if they come off as having any modicum of selectivity. "UIUC must admit me because I'm an Illinoisan, even though I have an ACT of -20"!!

Second, it is to hide UIUC's abysmally low yield rate which is around 30% for engineering - the strongest college in the fucking university has a yield rate of fucking 30%. Yes, even in CS. In fact, they were getting so full of themselves on selectivity this year that, out of the few people they chose to admit, so much fewer decided to go elsewhere that they had undershot the size of the incoming class substantially. So they filled the space with ??? shady shit.

Underscoring the yield rate is another truth: UIUC is nobody's first choice. It has low yield rate, because it is just a backup plan for rejects from other schools. Assuming people get into somewhere else, they will almost pick that place over here. That's why the yield rate is shit. UIUC is literally, LITERALLY a dumping ground for MIT Caltech Berkeley Stanford CMU rejects and nothing more. I bet you can't find a single person in your incoming class who is out of state and lists UIUC has their first or even third choice.

And going beyond that, the school loves to fucking harp on about how it produces founders of Yelp and Paypal and Marc Andreessen and shit, but completely ignores the fact that it pisses off even their most successful alumni enough to make them refuse to give back. Other universities treat their alumni well and instill them a sense of pride, so they GIVE BACK. That makes said university rich as fuck, like Northwestern for example, or UChicago. This university managed to piss off its most successful alumni LET THAT SINK IN.

It's a sinking shit at this point mark my words. Get out while you can

>>8320950
So everyone can get into Harvard if they work hard enough? Come on now.

>>8320959
Fucking ouch, bro. I'll keep your comments in mind; they hurt though.

>>8320930
>any mouthbreathing fucktard can enter just to give them that money,
My university does the same shit though we have a 60% failure rate for our intro courses so I guess it's OK to milk money and dump them even if we take a rankings hit.

>>8320962

I don't want to get overly political, but if you work really hard in high school, and are genuinely intelligent (so I guess no, let's be honest, not just anyone), write good essays, do cool extracurriculars, then yes it's possible.

My sister and I both got into elite ~5% acceptance rate schools and we are from a normal middle class family and went to normal high schools.

If you did all the things I said and didn't get in anywhere, you probably should have casted a wider net.

>>8320969
Good universities and shit universities can be distinguished solely by their preferred means of acquiring funding.

Shit universities love to draw in large crowds to milk tuition dollars and hopefully curtail the damage done to the quality of its alumni base by weeding most of those people out before graduation. This is good in the short term, but makes long term growth difficult for the university since most alumni will view it as nothing but a purchased service and have nothing to do with it after graduation. It is literally the institutional equivalent of a nigger living paycheck to paycheck on welfare.

Good universities practice the opposite model, in which they have highly selective admissions policies, but ensure that everyone they admit comes through the program because they chose to commit each student as an investment in the future of the university. They are treated nicely and have a good view of the university and are given all the connections and opportunities to be as successful as possible, in the hope that after they graduate they become immensely successful and give bucketloads of money back. This is much riskier than the other model, but generates much higher returns assuming they can consistently produce alumni that hit the spot.

Going to a good university and going to a shit university is literally the difference between being an expendable shitskin pajeet IT assistant drone of the collective masses and a genetically engineered hyper elite Aryan super soldier ala SPARTANs from Halo.

>>8320977
Getting in is one thing, getting in with partial scholarships is another, but for most people if you don't get a full ride it's game over.

That's why most international students are Chinese trustfund babies and not Rodrigeous from the flavellas.

>>8320647
University of Waterloo here. Arguably a far superior school compared to UofT.

>>8320984

Well, literally every single elite university meets all demonstrated need. In fact, lower class people actually have probably an easier time paying for these schools than middle class people. I don't know of anyone who got into my school but couldn't come because of money.


I will say that yeah, the internationals admitted due tend to be full pay and rich. They like to admit people who can pay, for obvious reasons.

Ucla CS.

Cornell and UW were too expensive and I didnt apply to Berkeley cause im a retard

>>8320977
>but if you work really hard in high school, and are genuinely intelligent (so I guess no, let's be honest, not just anyone), write good essays, do cool extracurriculars, then yes it's possible.

It's possible of course, but never guaranteed no matter how hard you work. Some work less hard and get in, others harder and don't get in. Still the solution must be more hard work then?

It doesn't matter how smart you are - there is always an element of luck. Especially when it comes to elite school admissions. It's like I win the lottery and tell all the losers to pray harder next time, lazy fucks.

>>8320996
Wut was ur sat score?

>>8321000

You're right. Some can work less hard and achieve the same result, spend the extra free time doing interesting and cool shit, and then better their chances of getting into a school. In other words, really smart people get into really good schools.

The reason one person gets in over another is because they distinguished themselves. If all else is equal, it might just come down to the essays. What the adcoms think about them is subjective. If you call that luck, fine.

>>8318165
>>8319023
I doubt you go to IIT if you call it Mumbai and not Bombay. Daily reminder that IIT Bombay was established when the Bombay State still existed, and was funded by UNESCO and the Soviet Union. Also the abbreviation does not make sense. IIT-M = IIT-Madras.

>>8317325
IIIT-Hyderabad
CS
It's okay still a bit salty I didn't get into IIT or NITs though, but I think all Indian students that did not get into these universities are like that.

>>8321010
How did u get into iiit h and not nit? Iiit h needs a high mains score afaik.

>>8321014
I should not have said did not get in to NIT, I did get into NIT but it was a matter of my family staying in Hyderabad that made me go for IIIT. But NITs have a better reputation abroad for Masters so I'm salty that I didn't choose NIT.

>>8317325
UTD, CE

pretty gud

>>8320981
Your exactly right. Something like 70% of this university's income is solely from tuition, student housing and sports. The rest is government money from papers published and ~10% faculty consulting fee cuts (yeah, that's how much we publish). We actually have good research groups with international reputations, but because of the money-whoring dean we are all dragged down.

No way I'm giving back to this shithole with its bloated bureaucracy.

>>8321002
2100. 2210 superscore.

4.0 UW and 4.7 california weighted.

Had like 700 hours+ in AV / IT community service

Had a film and photography portfolio too

>>8317331
Lmao no one who goes to Cal calls it "uni of berkeley".

>>8321016
Doesn't really matter what college you study ur undergrad in if you plan on doing masters abroad.

>>8321027
It does if you're planning on elite American universities, see linkedin profiles. All of the people that went to prestigious American universities (MIT, Stanford, Harvard) that are from India went to IIT for undergrad. I think they were also top in their batch, not sure. Someone in Stanford CS Masters that I saw had 9.44/10 GPA doing IIT-Madras CSE in his undergrad.

>>8321027
Not true, IIT is gold standard unfortunately

>>8321025
It was obvious troll...

>>8321027
>implying you can get into a good masters if you come from a shit undergrad

>>8321039
Not true.A relative of mine did his undergrad from a no name college and then went to NUS for masters.Now he's making bank.

>>8321042
NUS isn't hard to get into desu

>>8321042
NUS isn't prestigious, or rather it is not as prestigious as the prestigious universities in America.

A sister of someone I know of went to UT-Austin (top Texas uni I believe) even though she came from a no-name college in India.
>>8321045
This.

> Harvard, MIT, Stanford
> All those shitty universities that can't mass produce Fields medals

>>8320744
usyd/unsw is pre good too if u want to do quantum physics
but desu if you want to do maths research australia is probably not the best place to be
also what college in ANU?

Monash University
Pure Mathematics (3rd year)
It's ok

>>8321069

>normal
>superior

just make your mind up

/gradschool/ here

>>8321027
No. I'm at MIT and I'm around tons of people from schools I've never heard of, but they're still remarkably smart.

>>8321210
Grad school?

>>8317591
Starting physics at Trinity in October

>>8321250
>trinity
>but not trinity cambridge
why even bother?

>>8320571
Considering going there. What didn't you like/what did you plan on majoring in? I'm thinking ChemE.

>>8320986
McMaster University here. Arguably a far superior school compared to Waterloo.

>>8320984
>Chinese trustfund babies
holy fuck is this accurate
my friend at Yale literally calls herself a trustfund child because her father's business in China took off.

>>8320457
McGill here, one of your profs is teaching the software systems course I'm in.

>>8321396
LOL

>>8317325
Are you know something about Charles University in Prague?

>>8320419
ITAM here bruh

>>8317931
My business major friend goes there and it looks like it's a university of chads and fratbros. I haven't seen any STEM majors though

>>8321069
Superior Normie School.
Nice.

I enjoyed it. Minor in CS that does not show up on my diploma.

>>8320994
You don't know of the ones who couldn't come because of money because they're not there. Duh

>>8320643
Make sure to play Ride of the Valkyries on campus

>>8321489
>Bachelor of Arts

>>8321647
No, I'm an incoming first year to the school, and pretty much everyone who got accrepted joined th Facebook group. When it came time to actually go elsewhere and leave, people were posting stuff like "decided to go to ____ instead" but nobody said anything anout money. I'm sure some exist, but, by and large, these schools do make themselves affordable for people.

>>8321489
I've got a friend going there, she's majoring in math too. She plays for their tennis team.

>>8321910
Oh, you can look it up on their site. The difference is either take 2 years of a language is an extra semester of Chemistry and Physics and 1 year of a foreign language. By the time I switched to math I was already on my third semester of my foreign language classes so it was hardly even a decision. The math requirements/options are exactly the same between the BA and BS. Besides I enjoyed my language learning.

>>8321991
or an extra semester*

>tfw poor and going to a smaller campus in a larger uni system
>want to double major in ChemE and NucE

I have to transfer in a year or two if I want to do ChemE, because my campus doesn't offer it.

>>8317325
Imperial College Aero Engineering
It's great desu fampai

>>8317889
looking to go ther for my masters in geo. do u like it?

UCLA
Electrical engineering
Got rejected from Berkeley
transferred from SDSU with a 4.0

>>8322117
its a comfy ass school if you are in the geo sciences. USGS right on campus, lots of outdoorsy shit to do, coors brewery across the street that gives free beers.

if you don't like the sleepy mountain town vibe, you can live in downtown denver which is only 8 miles away. the city itself has great public transpo and really beautiful women (least fattest state in the union). plus DUDE WEED LMAO if thats your thing.

don't come here for any engineering besides mining/petroleum tho

Transfer next semester for engineering
Im have all my prereqs finished but I still don't know which discipline to major in. What do? Interested equally in mechanical, electrical, civil, and computer science.

>>8321018
Masters or Bachelors? In UTD EE here

>>8320278
Well, it is community college

>>8321412

Enjoying it or does he have autism?

>>8322445
He seems cool, I've had only one class of his so far because we started on Friday. His area of research is robotics and that's neat.

I know this is /sci/ but do many of you guys actually go to prestigious universities?
I mean, I go to an OK university, but I guess it's my fault for only applying to a few colleges.
This makes me want to transfer and do my master's somewhere else.

>>8322656
I don't think the majority of /sci/ does, but those who do go to one are more likely to post here.

That said, it's probably a higher rate than if you just sampled all STEM students. More dedicated students are more likely to post on a board like /sci/, but also more likely to try hard and get into a good school.

>>8322656

I do yeah.

Honestly, the best thing you can do now is focus all your efforts on going hard at the uni you're at now. Go above and beyond. IDK what field you're in or what you're trying to do next though.

>>8321069
You're at the ENS?

>>8318167
Illinois is a good school yo

>>8321927
I think way more exist than you believe. I didn't go to a tip tier school because I couldn't afford it, even though I was accepted. And I know a lot of people who did the same. Believe me, people go where the money is

UCLA.
Neuroscience.

I get it, it's a meme.

>>8322656
I'd say yeah, but then again I don't think overachieving students would visit /sci/ in general much, they tend to stay inactive on social networks as it cuts into productivity - everyone has the same 24 hours in a day after all. Or they may visit /sci/ regularly but only to see what's going on as it's very easy to post.

Pic related.

>>8322419
undergrad

nice to see a fellow comet here

>>8322888

I know a couple of comets. OK school, but too many Indians.

>>8322868
But will it stay that way

Physics undergrad at Rice University, AKA home of the Ivy League rejects.

It's honestly a pretty damn good school though, and apparently we're the happiest school in the nation according to the Princeton review, so I can't complain too much senpai.

>>8322892
too true

>>8322882
Damn do you really go to MIT? Whats it like?

Health Information Management

>>8322882
>>8322656
Yeah I was a bit of an overachiever until I went to do a research masters in Japan.
Those damn nips consumed all the taste I ever had for hard work.
Now I browse /sci/ a lot more :^)

>>8322904
>the Princeton review says I'm happy so therefore I am
Wait what?

>NDSU
>Mechanical Engineering

I got accepted to a couple prestigious engineering schools but NDSU gave me a full ride scholarship. It's not bad, if I hadn't been born to a poor ranching family I'd be in Colorado right now though.

engineering, final year

>>8323073
>if I hadn't been born to a poor ranching family I'd be in Colorado right now though.

you aren't missing much.

>>8323059
Guess I could have worded it better, but to clarify my current level of happiness has nothing to do with the princeton review, and more to do with the fact that Rice is actually just a really fun school, hence the results of the princeton review survey.

Huddersfield any1
Seen that big willow tree neer the canal?

>>8323015
Nah lol I don't go to MIT, I wasn't that good with my work ethic back in high school.
>>8323047
How was research/living in Japan like? I really want to visit at least once.

>>8323015
>>8323125
Though >>8320319 probably goes to MIT judging by that student ID.

>managed to get into harvard on a fluke

probably gonna drop tho

>>8323158
if you are not trolling kys

Anyone else? No? Okay

>>8320419
Ayy, what you studying universitario?

Anyone?

>>8320560
>The new system is literally what community colleges use
Can confirm. I transferred to Berkeley from a ghetto as fuck CC and they used this shit.

>some fuckhead was paid to "make" this
Literally could have made it a cs61a project and half the submissions would have been better than this crap.

>>8323293
>cuck school

>>8323293
Oklahoma is the worst.

>>8323306
and your school is?

Suffolk University
Advertising
Anyone else here?

West Texas A&M University. Woo.....

University of Groningen
physics
I can't wait for my first lecture of my third year to start today!

>>8323312
princeton :^)

>>8323346
my apologies Mr. Nash

>>8321396
LOL

>>8317835
Sweet. Biotech/cogsci here

>>8322904
I'm at U of H. How much of a badass do I have to be to get in?

>>8317325
TU Delft
Mathematics

Yes, I love it. Also I'm thinking about going to KU Leuven next year. What does /sci/ think?

>>8323342
Ik kan ook niet wachten vriend

>>8323409
UGent ftw m8.

Where my Waterloo math/CS bros @?

>mfw your orientation is literally a week of memespouting about harambe

>>8323928
1A Math phys here. Hopefully I can find others in my program.

>>8323409
Just started Molecular Science and technology

>>8317325
Doing a Ph.D at Aberystwyth

If any of you are undergrads starting here, don't even look at me let alone talk to me. The quality of research here (in my field anyway) is world class, the quality of undergrads is shit tier.

>>8323928
>>8323950
>tfw UWaterloo reddit is the best subreddit on earth with its memes
i wish i applied there but marks too low :( subreddit is fun as ever tho :P

>>8323015
>>8320319

I go to MIT for grad school. Fuck that freshman who posted his ID.

It's just a university. There is nothing special about being here in terms of the place. Classes are normal. Research is normal. Only difference I can pick out from my undergrad is the faculty seem to really be trying to push boundaries, but that might just be a few faculty and the rest do incremental research.

Don't be so enamored with this place. It's an industrial looking campus (I miss my undergrad's trees and open spaces) and the people are just people. If you get in here, by all means come here, but don't treat is like Mecca. It's a research institution, and any of the top 10 schools in your field will also be doing good work.

>>8323967
>>8323409
>Delft
My sincerest condoleances

>>8323996
The undergrads I met there during HackMIT seemed really cool and well-natured, more so than Stanford (elitist fucks) or Berkeley (fun to party with)

>>8323989
THANK MR GOOSE

>>8324031
F O C U S L E A R N F I G H T

>>8324031
>>8324073
F E R I D U N
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>>8324076
CALIFORNIA B O I S

>>8323989
>>8324031
>>8324076
>>8324073

>>8324117
>>8324079
>>8324076
>>8324073
>>8324031
>>8323989
LAURIER NORMIES GET OFF MY BOARD REEEE

>>8320486
oh putain c'est la dernière univeristé je m'attendais à voir icitte. shu en electrique aussi première année.

>>8320862
All UT pretenders can gobble cocks.

>>8324358
>a literally who school

>>8324358
is that you duncan

>>8324402
Yes.

>>8324397
Crawl back to your overpriced liberal arts cesspool.

>>8324144
ching chang chong >>>/int/

>>8317325
Despite being Russell Group and supposedly one of the largest unis in Europe, I've got yet to meet another person online who also studies here.

>>8317835
Grad student here. Maybe I'll be the TA for one of your math classes.

>>8323996
Wait, are you trying to tell me that MIT literally isn't the city of the gods where, if you get in you become basically set for life regardless if you're at the bottom of the class?

>>8322904
It's a good thing you aren't going for photography. That's some awful HDR.

Why the hell is UCLA up there?

>>8324442
say that to my face you little bitch ill swing a brick and break off your jaw that's what you'll get

>>8324527
UCLA is the west coast Ivy league

>>8322402
did you go to coral springs high school ?

>>8320326
Yeah. I have a good g.p.a. Also I live next to an English professor and she helped me write my personal essay really good. Plus I have really good letters of recommendation and I have participated a lot through HS. And I'm planing on finding some science and math competitions so I can make my application look better.

>>8322904

fun place

starting mechanical engineering in september.

feel a bit shit i went to a uni where they let people into engineering with like BBB when i got AAA desu

>>8324728
You could've gone for adjustment? They let you go to better unis if you went over your expectations.

>>8324739
i accepted an unconditional offer that i got after first year which is impossible to pull out of

>>8324742
you could have declined the offer, but thats pretty risky.

The Student Leader of my State said "You work for chiroprator and should be a Dr."

He gave me a Bachelors in Computer Networking, I need a Mathematics degree to excel.

>>8324749
tbf im not that bothered, the course im doing asks for "A*aa/aaa" allegedly but ive heard they let people in who get far below that. quite funny how its all designed to manipulate students who dont know the system.

tbf worst comes to worst ill be the smartest guy in the room so whatever

>>8324637
Do you have a good sat too? Honestly no competition you do now will help you get in, it's too late.

>>8324755
yeah tbqhwuf there are smart people in all unis.
you can still find a patrician <g/b>f
also the guy who created wetherspoons went there so your set m8

>>8321396
LOL

Which of these is tang?

147.E4E17BE0.C9E0717
0.14ACE2E6D4A07E171
3.625458904357424e-1025
3 1/2

The best University in Bongland (Manchester)
Physics

Does everyone here go to le elite universities?

>>8324445
I do

It's shit

>>8318067
>>8318260

Went to State and did math too. Is Paur still around?

>>8323076
"It's been 4 years now since I last saw a woman"

>>8325051
Huutista hikylle

>>8324445
Missed my offer for here and I cri, but since then ive only heard shit things.
like having a campus next to moss side

>>8325057
No she retired. Had her for one of the analysis classes, destroyed me desu.

>>8325109
When did she retire? Who took over the honors program? She destroyed most people.

>>8325124
I don't know, but Kang did. I think this is the third time I've talked about Paur in a /sci/ thread. No one forgets her.

>>8324445
i study here senpai don't listen to >>8324937 he's just jealous

>>8321069
Damn, I don't mind about peopke going to Ivy League schools, but this really makes me feel like shit.

>recieve fresher's week timetable
>mfw 'Sexual Consent Workshop' is marked as a mandatory event

Should I trigger the crazy SJWs in their safespace or will I serverly regret it?

>>8325129
Nah, I'll never forget her. Kind of sad new math kids at State won't be hazed by her.

Looks like State hired several new peeps since I've been there.

>>8324502
Yes I am, contrary to how you cucks and high schoolers on here treat it.

>>8325169
Had similar mandatory shit in my university, skipped it, nothing happened.
It was my first year of grad school though.

>>8323407
It changes a lot from person to person based on a shit ton of variables, but personally I'm just a somewhat smarter than average white kid from the northeast. Not really sure how I got in honestly, since I don't really do any sports or interesting extracurriculars.

>>8324691
Can't really disagree with you there. Work hard, play harder seems to be the unofficial motto of this school

>>8323158
>Friend got into Harvard
>Fucking hates everyone in the place
And that's saying something since he's from Commiefornia

>>8323981
I think half of the teachers where I went to HS/sixth form studied there. What field are they producing world class research in?

>>8325169
>Should I trigger the crazy SJWs in their safespace or will I serverly regret it?
Do it by doing exactly what they're asking. Walk around the event propositioning women with a pre-written legal consent form.

>>8320398
nah but i might go there next year. wat major?

>>8324623
nope

Im in a noname small school for CS. Want to transfer somewhere nice near/in Boston with good curriculum. I got WLd at WPI but going to try to transfer after sophomore year. Any other options?

Top options need not apply since I wont get in with shitty HS performance

>>8320358
How is math and comp sci?
Thinking of taking joint honours

>>8320378
Yeah I came from a California Community College. The math program there was actually pretty decent. We had a Calculus on Manifolds course - I also worked my ass off in my own time.

>>8325131
It's alright, but overrated as hell. Great if you want the 'yoonee experience' and all that shit, but a lot of the actual teaching/learning side is worse than your local 6th form.

>>8325948
do you know anyone who transferred from sbcc?

Georgia tech Boiz. undergraduate in Aerospace Engineering. Scl is great so far. Came from shit 3rd world country so this is a nice change of scenery

Studying physics, yet I only have 1 physics course this year. Not what I expected.

>>8321396
LOL

>>8324526
I liked the HDR in his picture, made it look cool

>>8320358
How the fuck did you even get in
Shit's impossible
ID or it didn't happen

>>8326312
Which country? How much are you paying?

>>8326754
McGill is NOT hard to get into, at least coming from an American perspective.

>>8327051
the cutoff to even be considered is over 95% and there are thousands of applicants from around the world lol

>>8322904
Potential EE at Baker here. Where you at?

>>8327139
Idk at my school most of the people who applied to mcgill got in and turned it down in favor of ivys or cal/ucla

>>8327178
>got into mcgill, the best school in all of Canada, and turned it down to go to ucla
I've never wew ladded harded than this

>>8327182
>mcgill, the best school in all of Canada
That's a funny way of spelling Waterloo

>>8327182
That foreign tuition is not worth the same or even worse quality of education in comparison to ucla

>>8325938
fine so far, only in 2nd year. I think a friend of mine is doing join honours, but as a B.A.

>>8326754
idk I just got in

>>8327349
Congratulations
Did you apply from a cegep or outside qc

>>8327456
Outside QC. I was born in Ontario but have lived in the States from 2000 to 2015.

>>8327456
>>8327349
And by "just got in" I don't mean I just recently got in, I mean all I did was apply and send my scores and got in. Sorry for the ambiguity.

>>8327492
Even more impressive
Is the curriculum too math-heavy or csci heavy? Is it a good balance?

>>8327508
The math & CS major is pretty well-balanced, 9 required math courses and 9 required CS courses, then 9 complementary math credits, 9 complementary CS credits. You have some amount of leeway as to which classes to take for those complementary credits.

>>8327517
Have you had jj xu yet?

>>8327518
I have no clue which course he teaches. Apparently he's still here though.

>>8327524
I think he taught ODEs at one point

>>8318259
Maybe next year