/sci/ - Science & Math

i don't know yet, probably Brown.

>>8381756
Are u a nigger?

>>8381756
affirmative action.jpg

no, fuck off

Shouldn't a smart person be above bragging realizing the futility of it?

>ubc
>math

>>8381834
you must not be smart enough to see how a smart person utilizes bragging towards success

>>8381807
You could say he's
Brown

>>8381837
What success do you get from bragging on an anonymous imageboard?

>>8381831
>there are no scholarships exclusively for white people
aw man, sucks being white :-(

>>8381835
Go fuck yourself

>>8381911
why the hostility?

Going to an ivy is dumb unless you are getting a big scholarship. You aren't going to get into their secret meme clubs as an average Joe anyways, you'll just spend 40k a year more for the same job opportunities as someone who did well in a state school.
That said MIT looks cool as fuck.

>>8382956
>MIT
>An ivy

Praise mr goose!

Mechanical Engineering (Werktuigbouwkunde) at the TU Delft
It's widely considered to be one of the most difficult courses in the Netherlands

>>8383029
>It's widely considered
kek nice ego you got there

Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
math

>>8382956
Most of the kids who go to Yale graduate debt free simply because they give out so much money. You factor in the AVERAGE 44k they hand out, in addition to the plethora of scholarships a kid going to an Ivy league school has definitely won and federal grants and they are probably getting PAID to go to these schools.

UCB
Molecular cell biology

Why the shit is UCLA up there with Harvard, MIT, etc? lmao

>>8381701
>go to no name uni
>first maths lessons are number lines and fractions
>still accredited
>still will get job
>will have time to get laid more than you

TUM - Technical University of Munich (or TUMbler Uni) - CS Meme

>>8383148
Good luck getting real research bro.

I go to UChicago and I hate coursework

Does anyone want to be buds

>>8383162
Proles from California seem to believe UCLA is an Ivy-tier school because it's a research powerhouse

t.UCLA chemistry student

>>8383218
CS.

It's CS.

That's why Cornell is there, and Yale isn't.

>>8383222
UCLA has a good CS program? I thought even UCSD's was better. And where's Berkeley?

>>8383218
>UCLA is an Ivy-tier school
It probably beats some of the shittier ivies in various science/math departments

>>8383148
Premed?

>>8381701
>always wanted to go to cornell
>senpai went through some shit
>got depressed
>fucked up senior year, went to cc and got bad grades for 2 years
>gpa 2.77 with a bunch of Ws
>got my shit together, transcript looks like a different student
>straight As 18 science credits
Do I have a chance to transfer? I'm 99% sure I dont

>>8383253
what field?

>>8383254
CS/Math

Computer Systems Engineering. 3rd year

CWRU (Case Western Reserve University)
Studying physics, doing really cool research right now.

>>8381701

>>8383207
Do you feel safe in Chicago?

stand aside you cretinous peasants

Columbia University

>>8383804
How is the location/faculty/etc ? Considering applying for a PhD there

>>8383797
Not him, but I went to Illinois Tech downtown (I'd say the neighborhood is worse)
We have campus security and chicago pd patrols every night.
There's still stories you hear every once in a while.

Just don't be stupid and you're normally fine. Stay in groups, don't have your phone out, pay attention to your surroundings, go down lit main streets, don't go north of campus, etc

AMA

1st year chemboii here.

>>8383817
How can you fucking live like that? That sounds terrible.
Also how can you take living in Illinois at all? Can't own guns, the police are corrupt...

It's such a change... For me, living in a huge Canadian city that has almost no crime and under 5 homicides a year. I can't imagine not being able to just go out at night alone when I want.

What do you study, at what level, and how did you get in? Is the area you live in nice? What's the cost of living there? Is it safe to be out and about during the day and go see stuff downtown or around the city?

Jagiellonian University in Poland
Med school

>>8383815
the location and faculty are great (they know their shit).

it's very much a do it yourself uni though and you will get pressured into performing.

>>8383029
Lol, no it's not, I'm gonna do my master at the TU delft.
Mech. eng. is the most average difficulty over there.
(Je zit boven TB IO en de rest van de architectuur studies, je zit onder aerospace eng. EE, TN, en alle wiskunde studies)

Last year before I start my PhD, taking Arithmetical Geometry.

>>8383819
you got any advice on personal statement? applying for physics, no clue what to write for it.

>>8381701
Swarthmore College

Math and Physics

>>8384145
I suspect the interviewers didn't even read mine, when I mentioned one of the points he replied "oh did you?" flicked 3 pages forwards in his stack of notes and flicked right back to the front again.

That being said, do put some effort into it as it could be a determining factor as to if you get an interview. The way I did it was I wrote a huge essay talking about the subject, my hobbies, work experience and any other interesting stuff I could think of at the time. It ended up being twice the max length as required, but then when I took it to teachers I could easily edit parts. Talking of teachers, the best advice I can give you, is to find teachers you like and trust and ask them to read and give you suggestions. Use their suggestions first and everyone else's suggestions should be for minor grammar/sentence structure adjustments. Good luck, which college you want to apply to.

>>8383819
yea book, which college? I'm at Trinity

>>8384145
Physics fresher here
Just write your history in the subject and shill it
I found a template and used a thesaurus

>>8384145
not him but im starting maths there in october

1. write the ps for the other unis. oxford dont use ps's as much as other unis who dont have interviews/tests and also you need to be realistic - physics at oxford is very competitive.

2. read about 6 physics/maths related books. mention 4 in passing and 2 in detail. try to mix perhaps a few serious book with a few meme-tier pop-sci books. try to make one rather obscure/specialist - so perhaps physics of meteorology instead of quantum mechanics.

3. if you've done maths competions (ukmt, senior maths test, bmo) put that in

4. say why you want to do physics. talk briefly (BRIEFLY!) about non-academic interests and try to link them to physics/academic. e.g. i play chess, because i enjoy competition and finding the optimal way to solve a problem. i play the viola which helps keep my brain engaged even when im relaxing. etc

3. if you write the word passionately then legitimately murder your family.

4. (im assuming your uk) explain why you chose your a levels and if you've read outside the curriculum (only for physics-related topics).

5. write eloquently. get your subject teacher to check it.

6. if you get an interview. make sure that you can talk about everything that you mention for at least 5 minutes straight before running dry. they might not even ask you anything (my maths interview didnt) but if they do and you cant answer then your fucked.

6. dont worry about the ps. just focus on the PAT. for maths a single mark on the MAT (/100) is equivalent to a full A* GSCE, i assume its the same for the PAT.

do every single PAT past paper/spec you can find. repeat them multiple times if necessary until you get 90+. make an edexcel spreadsheet recording your scores. srsly fäm PAT is super important.

>>8384225
7. avoid cliches especially the avoiding-cliches cliche.

>Thomas Edison State University
>Air Traffic Control

Already graduated Fort Rucker's ATC program.

just started undergrad here in math

>>8384133
I will apply for my masters in two years

>>8384351
Just started? How was it applying? What did they look for, and what did they see in you?

>>8384359

Rather than one long, broad essay, the application consists of several short, specific prompts that allow you to expand on experiences that are ultimately more relevant, in my opinion. The interview process is relatively casual, too. It was more conversational than I was expecting, which just goes to show how genuine the application process is here in general compared to other places.

From what I've gathered, they're looking for people with solid academic records who are passionate/curious about STEM.

Just graduated. Barely scraped through.

>>8384391
>they're looking for people with solid academic records who are passionate/curious about STEM.
Cheers, Geoff

first year electrical/computer engineering

Brainlet, can't even get into grad school here, let alone anywhere reputable. Electrical engineering

Just graduated. Computer science.

>>8384391
Are you looking to switch into Engineering, or stay in Math?

>>8383606
Do you frequent The Den?

>>8384409
What course? I'm starting on Monday.

>>8384460
What course are you in?

math

>>8384467
is that ms paint?

Electrical Engineering

Did my undergrad at an Ivy-- studied computer science with a focus on software systems and distributed computing. Currently a graduate at Columbia, focusing on theoretical computer science and cryptography-related topics.

>>8384477
yeah I'm minoring in MS Paint

I'm transferring here for Math this coming summer; they have a surprisingly strong program.

>>8384460
MSc Financial Risk Management.

What will you be studying?

I did undergrad at Birmingham. The step up was massive. I sat a few undergrad modules at UCL and what undergrads study there compared to what I did at undergrad is a so far apart. Its not a surprise that a lot of places are only interested in recruiting from top unis.

I didnt particularly enjoy the feel of the university. For me, the campus atmosphere at Birmingham was far more relaxed and enjoyable. But you have so many options open to you at UCL which you wouldnt elsewhere so its worthwhile.

>small state school in New Jersey
>chemistry (premed)

I just came here cause it's a mile away from my house and cost free with my scholarship. At least it's not hard to find research opportunities here.

2nd year molecular physics

>>8384526
I am starting an MSci in Maths.
I hope the work load is worth it.

>>8384638
If you do well, you'll have great opportunities for internships and job prospects. Plus London is amazing. I was there this week for an interview, and it really blows away any other city in the UK.

>>8384508
lol no they dont

>>8381756
Do the extemption of tuition fees apply for foreign low income students too?
I'm thinking about applying for Brown.

>>8383804
which oxbridge college did you get rejected from senpai?

Cambridge master race coming through
doing genetics phd, did my undergrad here as well

>>8384720
I know, its just a lie I tell myself to keep from killing myself.

Princeton hmu if you go here

University of technology in Graz, Austria.

Seems like a quite well respected university but i don't really know about that.

2nd year Physics starts monday

>>8384732
>his university is younger than 900 years

>>8384998
>does a science course
>at oxford
top kek

>tfw to smart to go to university

>>8383202
which semester?

Mechanical Engineering
TU Delft

Nottingham

Genetics

>>8385050
Pics of Brady with keyboard on head, or you're a liar

>>8384428
Same school and major. Which dorm?

>>8384133
Sitting for the agrégation, fucking regretting not having gone for the msc

>>8384434
Shit school full of perverts and autists. I started my PhD last week.

Just ended undergrad a pic related. That school could actually use few more perverts and autists

Not the best Uni by any means, but they threw a lot of money at my subject recently putting it 19th place on some list. They're pretty good for getting jobs.

I'm a lawfag, by the way.

>>8385050
Ditto, second year physics
>tfw you get a free textbook that covers everything you study in first year

>>8385056
Literally never seen him walking around

>>8381910
No, it's that minorities have to achieve incredibly less in order to attend prestigious schools (except Asians, they have it even worse).

No only is that bullshit, it also means that White and Asian students often have suspicions that their nonwhite colleagues are not qualified to be with them, sometimes rightly so.

>>8383809
Are the research opportunities really as good as they say they are there? I've heard u can do it as a freshman. Also major?

>>8385130

Pre-career achievement is largely relative. Xinhao who won the math Olympiad after years of coaching from his parents and tutors has achieved something less impressive than Jamal who did it on his own while helping his single mom raise his multiple half-siblings.

>>8383820
There's a huge difference between Chicago (Cook County) and the rest of Illinois. I currently live in the nice north suburbs of Chicago. We pay about 1600 per month for rent

I walked around campus a lot late at night as I'd spend most of my time in the lab. When I was a Freshman, I was wary of wandering alone, but by Senior year, I felt fine. The one person I know who was robbed, was antisocial and went out of his way to avoid some of the crowded streets around the Sox stadium (our campus is on the opposite side of the expressway).

I got my BS in Mechanical Engineering there and started my graduate degree there, but had to leave for reasons. I got in by applying to a bunch of schools and it was the only one that accepted me and gave me a scholarship.

The touristy parts of Chicago are completely safe during the day, the red line is crowded late at night (I've ridden it packed at 2am and it runs all night). I've been to some of the run down areas with no problems. You just kinda get use to it I guess.

The funny part is I went to grad school at UT knoxville and actually felt unsafe. In the semester I was there every "rape" was reported via email, we were informed not to go near one of the dorms as someone was seen to be carrying a gun, I was shouted at from a car twice, and told to step off while riding my bike back home.

>>8384487
Hello fellow Columbia anon

>>8383582
Ayy UoA.
>1st year biomedical science here

>>8385214

Greetings. What year are you in? What do you study?

>>8385174
>>8383820
oh if you want to learn more about living in the slums of Chicago read "Gangleader for a Day"
It's from a sociology grad student (at UChicago?), who decided to get a first hand look at the Chicago projects. He made friends with the boss of the local gang that controlled the area, and wrote about his experiences.

University of Illinois

Electrical Engineering

Is it retarded to do BS, MS and PhD all at the same school?

>>8385664
>>8385664
2nd year ECE here. Probably not but you wouldn't want to stay here desu. Continued lack of budget and the profs leaving is bad news. I hope to graduate before it becomes truly bad.

>>8385294
On topic:
Washington and Lee - physics with a minor and mathematics
Georgia State University - PhD in Nuclear Physics

To answer your question, my mother said it's for some reason considered "bad taste" to do all your degrees in one place. I obviously had to, as Washington and Lee didn't have a graduate program in physics, but honestly I don't think it's TOO retarded. This is a great conversation to have with your adviser or favorite professor though. They'll definitely have a better answer for you.

>>8384732
Did you do your masters there as well, or straight into PhD from undergrad?

>>8384998
Literally only important for the humanities

>>8385738
yeah did part iii first, but unless you fuck up 3rd year basically everyone does a masters if you are a natsci

i got into ucla and berkeley

doing bio and spanish at uci right now

>>8385294
>>8385174
You paint a good picture for Chicago but it seems scary. The police there are even corrupt with their profiling and black sites.
Even if there are safe areas I almost cannot sanction living in a city that has 500 murders a year. It's just too much.
Also not being able to conceal carry...

>>8385664
No it's not retarded to do that.

>>8385743
1. its a joke mate
2. lets be honest theyre both great unis
3. im doing 1/2 stem 1/2 humanities (double major) so i dont mind
4. https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2016/may/23/university-league-tables-2017#S230

guardian uk university rankings 2017
mathematics: oxford, imperial, st andrews, cambridge, warwick

hmmm...

Sup! I'm from a community college.

>>8386161
>https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2016/may/23/university-league-tables-2017#S230
>picking the one league table that has oxford ahead of cambridge
>ignoring the million other tables that have it as cam>ox
>genuinely thinking oxford maths is better than cambridge

Where does Durham come in here? Am I in the cool elite gang?

>>8386195
durham is like 3rd tier in the UK, so no. Did you get rejected from oxford or cambridge btw?

>>8386198
What do you mean third tier?
Yeah, Oxford, not too bummed about it though, as long as it's still challenging here

Uc davis
Microbiology

>>8381701
St Andrews PhD.
St Andrews is a bit of a weird one for rankings. It's continually ranked best in Scotland; it's often top 3 or top 5 in the UK (according to some rankings), but only top 100 in world rankings; it's the only Sutton 13 institution not in the Russel Group; it's an ancient university, and third oldest in the English-speaking world, but nobody really knows about it.
It does really well in subject specific rankings, too.

Undergraduate here, went because I am from Northern Ireland and therefore pay reduced fees. Not sure it's as good as it is cracked up to be, though, if the requirements were higher maybe there wouldn't be so many retards.

>>8386205
tier 1: oxbridge
tier 2: Imperial, LSE, UCL, (plus St Andrews and Warwick for certain subjects)
tier 3: durham, kcl, etc
tier 4: generic unis
tier 5: ex-polys

>>8386236
I think the problem is that everyone in RoI/NI wants to be a nurse or a primary school teacher. No one there goes to university for any other reason... And those courses don't exactly attract the smartest people.

>>8386241
Fixed your list-
tier 1: oxbridge (plus Imperial, LSE, UCL, St Andrews and Warwick for certain subjects)
tier 2: Imperial, LSE, UCL, St Andrews, warwick (plus durham, kcl, etc for certain subjects)
tier 3: durham, kcl, etc
tier 4: generic unis
tier 5: ex-polys

>>8386267
ahahahahaha

>>8386182
>genuinely thinking oxford maths is better than cambridge
i wouldnt think that, you muppet.
maths tripos is probably the best maths course in the world and if i wasnt a retard in maths i would have done maths at cambridge instead of oxford.
its quite clear
>his university is younger than 900 years
is just a bit of friendly banter. dont get knicker-twisted. and lets be honest, at the level of oxbridge and top ivy leagues, the rankings are a bit arbitrary.

>>8386195
durham is a good uni (for certain subjects). ive heard people use the portmanteau doxbridge though which is a bit funny. and ive found the stereotype of oxbridge rejects is more true of warwick.

>>8386241
on /sci/ at least, imperial deserves tier 1 status.

>>8386267
top lel m8

>>8386269
>>8386283

>LSE not tier 1 for economics
>UCL not tier 1 for machine learning
>Warwick not tier 1 for engineering
>St Andrews not tier 1 for arts&humanities

Why are you so narrow-minded you can't recognise good institutions besides oxbridge?

>>8386302

because either ox or cam (or both) are superior in all those disciplines to the respective places you've mentioned

>>8386302
>UCL not tier 1 for machine learning
right, because being (doubtful) the best uni in a subfield of statistics makes you comparable to cambridge.

>Warwick not tier 1 for engineering
cam, ox, imp, ucl, manc are all easily better

>St Andrews not tier 1 for arts&humanities
cam, ox, ucl, and durham are all easily better

>LSE not tier 1 for economics
LSE is comparable, as is imperial in their respective fields and possibly UCL in some specific areas.

>>8386316
exactly.

when a university has a course which is better than both oxford and cambridge for particular subject either 1) they are so specialised they cant really count as universities. e.g. LSE, SOAS, certain music schools, or 2) the subject is so specialised that its post-grad only.

there are probably exceptions though so i dont swear by this

thats not to say that other universities arent incredible.

>>8386302
>LSE Econ
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2016/may/23/university-league-tables-2017#S360
11th

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Economics

5th

>warwick engineering
http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=General+Engineering

6th

https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2016/may/23/university-league-tables-2017#S160

7th

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/subject-ranking/engineering-and-IT#!/page/0/length/-1/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only

outside the top 100

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2015/engineering-mechanical#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=war

151-200

>UCL not tier 1 for machine learning
ultra specific, but Cam certainly has world leading research

>St Andrews not tier 1 for arts&humanities
hugely broad area, but ultimately worse than either ox or cam on almost all counts

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/arts-and-humanities/2015#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=

67th

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/subject-ranking/arts-and-humanities#!/page/1/length/25/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only

36th


Anyway the point is that in almost any subject, Cam/Ox are top in the UK, and top 5-10 in the world. Any uni might have a decent faculty for a few years, but they are consistently at the highest level.

>>8386343
the truth is that oxford and cambridge do stand out from the rest. most unis, even top russell group unis, need to attract students to apply, in order to get that sweet £9000.
oxbridge colleges have more money than they know what to do with - i would guess that the majority of their income doesnt come from students but rather
1. colleges were originally monastries and still own a shit tonne of land/buildings which they rent out.
2. oxford univeristy press and cambridge UP are leading academic publishers
3. donations from rich farts
4. patents (which unlike more recent unis, can fruition over centuries)
5. huge government/eu grants

hence they really are funded quite differently. they could probably take in no students for a year and turn a profit, whereas other unis cant afford to be as selective. they spend their money subsidising everything. oxbridge is the cheapest place to learn and the easiest to get grants.

>>8386331
Then why can they not be considered tier 1 for those disciplines?
The point here is that the rankings are transient, and often biased in favour of institutions with huge research budgets, and a history of nobel laureates. This is all but irrelevant for undergraduates, gives rise to self-fulfilling prophecies in awarding grant money for research, and preserves the 'top' institutions in pedestalled positions in the rankings.
Do you guys ever wonder why oxbridge never changes position, but why there's SO much volatility in the top 20 each year?

>>8385056
>>8385122
Anyone joined any societies?

>>8386343
Sweet cherry picking senpai

>>8385056
Brady Heron?

>>8386385
>cherry picking
>using every league table available

>>8386390
>Specific years between 2015-2017
>Thinks there's only 3 league tables

>McGill University
>Physics & Philosophy
Dynamics of Sinple Systems
Multi variable Calculus
Ethics
Deductive Logic

>>8383029
>Werktuigbouwkunde

Jullie worden uitgelachen op de EWI.

t. Technische Wiskunde

Studying for my phd in business ethics at Trump U.

My lecturer makes me feel dumb, I don't even understand most of it, but I just sort of guess everything and I get the right answer and a good grade.

>>8386380
lets be honest, there is a land mark power gap between oxford and cambridge and the third best uni (whatever that is).

oxford was founded in c.1100. cambridge in c.1200. the third university (controvesial which) c.1830.

they are funded in quite a different way than other universities (see this guy's answer >>8386378 though i would probably say he missed out 7. tourism)

its not really irrelevant for undergraduates. if a uni is great for research, then the best academics will come, then you are learning from the best academics. (also the student: staff ratio is about 10). as far as i know the "tutorial" system (1 on 1/2/3 scheduled lessons) from professor) doesnt really happen else where (correct me if im wrong). you may say it doesnt matter that the academics are so smart for undergraduate but it does help if your professor is literally the world authority on the subject and writes the textbooks that other universities use.


we dont wonder why oxbridge never changes position. you admit yourself that its a self-fulfilling prophecy and the thing abou self-fulfilling prophecies is that they are actually fulfilled.

p.s. because they are so competitive (whether warranted or not) all the people in the class are rather smart, which always helps the learning i guess

haha why are people going on a university bragging thread and then complaining that oxbridge students are bragging?

>>8383606
oh shit me too senpai
premed 4 lyfe

>>8384442
lmao >>8384442
where else would one be drunk on a tuesday at 2am

Best public university in the country checking in

>>8386484
>UC Berkeley
>Michigan
>fucking UCLA
UVa is completely irrelevant and slowly sliding down in the rankings. They were never relevant, ever, in science or math.
>Acceptance rate:29%
Sad!

>>8386500
Michigan's acceptance rate is literally less than 1% lower you cuck. And if anything UVA's rankings increase every year.

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

Number 2 public school, we beat fucking Michigan.

Fuck michigan, it's a meme school

Europe's finest reporting in!

>>8385082
ujamaa lmao, i'm not black though

>>8381835
AYyy exact same situation. What year?

>>8386676
>tied with another state's #2 public school
Pathetic. And UCLA is unquestionably better at science and has a 10% lower acceptance rate. UVa is fine but it's just not that good, especially considering it has an entire century on UCLA.

>>8386676
Fair enough about Michigan though I didn't realize it's that bad

>>8386500
Doesny low acceptance rate shoe selectivity.

>>8387041
Berkeley and UCLA have 18% acceptance rates. I think he was trying to say that those schools are more sought after?

>>8382990

>implying

>>8383207
ayy im at UC too, fuck that shit

>>8383797
not him but i go to uchicago too, its really not that bad, hyde park is an island in the ghetto, that being said there was a drive by shooting right outside my apartment last winter, kinda spooky

>>8385091
Agreed. You started your PhD there? Good God man -- good luck. I was happy to get the fuck out of there. Stay strong.

>>8385958

I was pretty sure it were 2000 murders but only 500 that is pleb tier murder-rate

>>8386808
>program house
Dropped. You're probably a liberal retard.

>>8385091
I just started my PhD there last week also and I didn't meet any perverts. were you referring to someone in particular?

>>8386831
i'm in my 2nd year of graduate studies, you?

>>8387154
I did the housing application after the deadline, trust me no non-black would live here willingly

>>8387270
Damn son. 4th year undergrad here. BSc honours, no minor. It's kicking my ass, can't wait to graduate and get the fuck away from academia

http://www.strawpoll.me/11351129/

>>8387325
been hospitalized 4 times for suicidal ideation

>>8382956
i thought people from top tier unis get better jobs than people from regular colleges

>>8387361
>4 times
>hospitalized for having thoughts

someone likes attention

>>8387307
good idea

i sort of wish i did the same

>mfw i've probably graded some of your assignments

you lean more towards applied or pure?

Quantitative Biochem. Theoretical physics isn't going anywhere, decided to become more interdisciplinary.

Keiser University. Chemistry for Highschool education :-)

>>8385664
>engineering
>masters

is this real life? get your PEng and an MBA and getthefuckouttathere.png

and, yes, it is retarded. employers value diversity in schooling only if its decent skoolz

>Bath
>MMath (Study Year Abroad)
Has anyone been and know whether the study year is worth it? Anyone know what universities bath has ties with? (All I've been told is USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore are options)

>tfw just started MSc in CS at Ox
>tfw did undergrad in Bioengieering
>tfw scared

What have i gotten myself into

>>8383809
>>8384487
>>8385214
I was thinking of trying to apply to Columbia General Studies with a concentration in Computer Science-Statistics
http://bulletin.columbia.edu/general-studies/undergraduates/majors-concentrations/computer-science-statistics
But I don't know if it would be worth it as some may see "General Studies" and assume its some kind of easy joke degree. Another concern is I'm don't even think I could be accepted because I barely graduated high school and flunked out of university. I'm now in my late 20s and since then I've been self studying math, computer science, data mining, machine learning, etc textbooks. But unfortunately the fact that I could self teach myself this doesn't mean anything to employers. I've showed them what I can do and they say that's very impressive but they can't take the risk to hire me without a degree. I have seriously been handicapped by not having a degree, and since I'm in my late 20s that's what attracts me about Columbia's non-traditional general studies program.
Do you think I could be accepted and if so would it even be worth it or would people see it as a worthless degree, as in I'd be back in the same boat where employers don't take my credentials seriously?

Doing my postdoc at pic related.

>>8387393
In honours you basically have no choice but to take a shitload of pure maths. I prefer applied though. What's your area of study? And what classes do you TA??

>>8389927
No, GS is pretty well-respect among employers. Do it anon, you need the degree and GS seems like good path for you. Just try to bring some interesting life experience

>>8386399
living the dream anon
living the dream
do you like the place

No

>>8387307
Engineer detect

>>8383207
I'm a grad student in the physics department. We can meet at the GCIS happy hour on friday if you want!

>>8390129
Thats good to hear.
But I still think I would be disqualified because my terribly poor academic history would basically be unacceptable to admissions. Any advise on how to convince them to accept me? I'd have problems with for example, I've looked at the admissions paperwork for GS and it requires a few professor recommendations. Well as you can imagine I wont be able to meet that requirement. I've even considered if it might be possible to somehow get this by doing something like contact computer science professors about their papers or research I'm interested in and basically show how I'm really interested in this and have programmed some prototypes on github using the ideas from their research or something.

>>8381835
>>8387307
3rd year CMS here, thinking of switching to chem or bio. The mandatory SCIE 300 course spent two fucking weeks talking about active vs passive sentences.

2nd year CS major, discrete math minor

>>8384434
Techer bros
I'm electrical engineering

Computer Engineering 1st year.

It's making me feel very dumb and lost, does this feeling go away?

>>8390222
I honestly don't know that much about Columbia General Studies admissions.

talk.collegeconfidential.com might be able to help you, you can post in the Columbia forum/non-traditional/college admissions (one you will get quickest response too) for more information on process.

They can be assholes there, but they have good info

>>8390294
if you're too dumb for engineering of all things you should probably drop out

Mechantronics Engineering

>>8390304
Oh ok :(

>>8385154

cuck

>>8384508
Boy fuck no.

Rice University, astrophysics (at least for now; still just a freshman so it's definitely subject to change)

I'll be honest, I'm only going to Rice because I didn't get into any of the Ivy's I applied to, but fortunately it turns out that it's a very good school in its own right. Just somehow barely has any name recognition outside of Texas despite being one of the top 20 schools in the nation.

Some CC behind the Redwood Curtain.
>cogsci
Let's see which UC's want me.

>>8390274
I could come there in exchange next year, is CS teaching really good or are they mostly good at research?

>>8390204
Sorry for the late response.

Yeah Mcgill is really great. They're super flexible here with what you fill your degree with. You need 120 credits to graduate and most majors are 30-60 credits that you start after your 30 credit freshman program (calc 1, 2, linear, phys 1, 2, etc. No BS english or sociology mandatory class). That gives you 30 credits to do whatever the hell you want. Even take grad school classes.

Montreal is a ton of fun too. A lot of great clubs and bars + places to see.

People are a good mix of driven/smart and sociable.

Professors are eager to help you (probably because no one shows up to office hours and they get lonely). It's also piss easy to get research, provided you make the effort.

Biggest downside is the class sizes are huge until your 3rd year.

>>8390347
>Reply
I want to apply for my PHD there but I don't know. I heard people are pretty snobby there. How is the culture there?

5th year MD-PhD student

>>8381701
I finished mine few days back.
So suck my dik

Northwestern University Earth and Planetary Sciences

>>8390373
I find the CS teaching to be pretty good, especially the theoretical people.

any second rate uni bros in here?
physics, second year btw

>>8390380
Don't know too much about what Rice is like for grad students, but from what I've experienced it's just the opposite of snobby. Most people here are incredibly friendly, and while school certainly takes priority, we still know how to have a good time (work hard play hard is very much the mentality here). So while Rice culture/atmosphere is definitely a bit quirky, overall it's very welcoming and fun, at least for undergrads.

If you want to see what other students here have to say, you can check out this link:
https://colleges.niche.com/rice-university/

>>8381701
Geophysics, but will transfer to astro
Rate please

>>8381701

jcu, marine biology
probably going to join the foreign legion instead of / after honors

PUC
Civil engineering

>>8384391
aww cool. I was looking to finish my graduates at MIT. Any advice you could give?

>>8381701
on leave from mit, course 16 (aeroastro)

just crippling depression my shit up desu

>>8382956
Sounds like someone is butthurt they only got into shitty schools.

>>8391311
not her/him, but it sounds about right to me. the difference in salary between someone who goes to a good public university and a private university isn't, generally speaking, going to be massive. unless you can get scholarships that make the price comparable then it doesn't seem worth it to pay 40k a year if you could be paying 10k or less to go to a good school.
correct me if I'm wrong but you don't just graduate from a harvard maths course and get a 300k starting job, and if you do it's probably because your daddy is a hedge fund manager and would have given it you anyway had you gone to a state school.

>>8384213
topkek another swattie on /sci/, what year?

>>8390972
>Second rate
>Literally has the worlds greatest physicist on staff

Hope youre learning all there is to know from Coxy

>>8384434
Hi senpai

senior physics here rn

feelsgoodman

>>8390347
Baker sophomore EE reporting. I don't get the lack of name recognition either.

>>8381701
I'm at Georgia Tech, the #5 CS school in the world, according to wsj

DeVry. Parks and recreation

my undergrad biology thesis is how crooked teeth is not genetic (predominantly) in western societies, my primary source is weston prices work

opinion on this school?

Unisats say they have a 100% employment rate after 6 months and £27k starting salary for EEE graduates, which is better/on par with a lot of Russel group unis.

>>8391852
not really senpai, all he does is half the lectures in a 1 semester course in the first year.

Aside from Engineering, what are UWaterloo's best programs?

wpi
undecided
2020 class
should be studying

>>8385706
Yeah, and the total lack of name recognition really turns me off too from sticking around. Getting a job outside of the state is going to a bitch.

Plus I really wonder what kind of stuff the kids at Caltech and MIT, etc have access to that we don't.

>>8393662
WPI class of 2019
Cs with ece minor
How are you liking it?

>>8381701
>UF
>AE/EE dual hopefully
>TFW No GF

>>8383253
Ivy's generally speaking don't do transfers
>Princeton got major shit for this. They only opened them up this year as a way to get "diversity".

Ivy Tech Community College.
General Ed.

what? it is is Ivy, faggots

>>8390306
Wanna meet up ?

>>8390375
what about the fact that its a mostly french city in a french speaking province? doing routine things must be difficult or at the very least, annoying.

>>8386924
Michigan has fancy buildings but Ohio State is better.

>>8392149
Is it nice, according to you?

>>8381701
Ohio State
undergrad atmospheric sciences

is there even any meteorologists and climatologists on this board?

>>8382956
>secret meme clubs
you really are retarded

>>8383809
can see my dorm window in that picture

>>8394627
No faget

>>8394643
John Jay or Carman?

>>8381701
UNCG
Human Biology (Non-Med Cuck)

>>8385091
Currently in CC, looking at Harvey Mudd as on of my transfer options in case UCSD doesn't work out. Want to stay around the area, literally never hear anything about Harvery Mudd though. Anything you'd like to share?

>>8383582
>dancing kiwis

CSUN comp engi major and math minor

Should I go for EE minor instead? I love math though.

>>8385154
you're gay

numero uno reporting in

>>8386727
Cool, a collègue
Which section, which semester?

The best business school on Earth
t. Aallon kylteri

>>8395412
huutista

>>8395412
Turnip!

Is Harvard Extension School considered reputable, or is there a stigma against it? Would a ALB degree field of study of computer science or mathematics from HES be taken seriously?

>>8392595
Its not even a mid tier uni.

>>8395803
>muh rankings
there's oxbridge and then there's everything else in the uk. finer graduations are pointless.

math55 and physics16 at harvard

>>8395803
Did you not see the statistics I pointed out?

>>8395803
what makes a school mid-tier vs low tier?

>>8390060
I wonder if I have crossed paths with you before.

New Mexico fucking state University
Mechanical fucking engineering

>>8394612

I'm in my first semester so I only know so much. But so far I really like all the people doing HPC research.

The faculty are extremely accomplished. It's pretty awesome to listen to them speak or give class. And on that note I really enjoy going to class. Much more so than my undergrad CS classes.

In terms of facilities, Tech is excellent as well. And my department (CSE) is moving to a 19-story building that we will share with industry partners to "foster collaboration." I'm more exciting to hopefully get a lab with some natural light.

I could answer more specific questions if you like.
Overall I like the school. But it is large, and that sort of environment isn't for everyone.

>"Bragging Thread"
>not /makebelieveandtalkshitgeneral/

>>8389783
Congratulations anon!

They wouldn't have admitted you if you couldn't handle it. Good luck!

>>8382956
Being an Alumni is often enough to get solid jobs, you just aren't guaranteed to be eloonenahti. The main draw of Ivies is the prestige that gets you jobs like candy and the strong alumni network

if you do a 3-2 with engineering from a liberal arts to an Ivy, does the ivy degree you have carry the same prestige as if you were at the Ivy the whole way?

For example Fordham University has a 3-2 with Columbia

>>8382956
>I'll never be in a secret meme club

>>8396961
Feels bad to not be from a rich and well-connected ivy alumni family with auto admission to the secret meme clubs :(

>>8396965
Does going somewhere for grad school confer the same "connection" to that institution that being an undergrad alumni does?

It seems different.

ASU Chemistry BS

I see like ten amazingly hot girls every time I turn a corner.

community college, A.S. in chem (hopefully B.S. in chem then med school)

tfw UW Seattle has an almost 60% acceptance rate and I didn't get in as a top 10% graduating student in WA state

just fuck me up

TUC-technical university of crete
Mineral resources engineer 2nd year

>>8396971
It's a larger effect due to grad school being more selective

UCLA Math, Junior Transfer so it's my first quarter here. Doing the Honors Real Analysis & Honors Linear Algebra. Pretty fun

>>8384565
Nice school desu

Went there for geology

jawja tech, information security

probably gonna end up becoming a broker for my dad anyways

>>8393959
Yeah according to their website the engineering college(CS is under that dept there) only takes around 40 transfers a year. After some digging I also found their specific reqs for junior transfers and they want me to have taken a bunch of chemistry courses, whereas my area requires CS majors to take physics. I'm not willing to set myself back another entire year so I think I'm just gonna do my best here and try for grad school.

>>8390601
Ayy Northwestern here too
MS mechanical engineering

>>8394436
I don't speak any French and it's never been a problem for me (with the exception of like one taxi ride).

The neighborhood where McGill is in (Ville Marie) is called the "McGill Bubble" for a reason. While everyone there speaks French, they're also completely fluent in English too. Also, all the surrounding nightlife is bi lingual too.

The only issue with this is that it doesn't force you to learn French which is kind of a bummer.

UNC Chapel Hill, pursuing a doctorate in genetics and molecular biology

>>8398266
Ok go solve autism

Mechanical engineering

>>8381701
I'm a medfag. Is that good enough to brag?

Mechanical engineering

>>8399288
ma nigger

A little advice to all the mechanical engineering students: drop out and do computer systems engineering.

I have a mech degree and the majority of jobs arent exactly what you would envision. You wont be doing any groundbreaking designing of machines or anything like that; you will most likely find a 'systems' engineering type job and hate life.

>>8399392
This desu, any medfags here?

>>8381701
Get on my level

>>8399490
studying mathematics

>>8398558
You need test cases first, that's why he's here

>>8399490
nice

Bachelor of Science (Geoscience)

>>8390339
I-is it really that bad?

>>8392595
seems pretty shitty desu

Anyone at Hopkins, biomolecular engineering major class of 2019

University of Texas at Austin

Applied Math.

Pretty good program I'm happy with it

University of Aalborg (Denmark)
Bachelor of Science (Nanotechnology)

UAT - Network Security

Learning pure math on my own cause math here is pleb tier. Planning on doing a doctorate's or PhD in math. Don't know in what college though

What if I don't care about CS meme studies and just want a cosy spot in academia somewhere? Some nice, wishy-washy interdisciplinary field?

No, not the humanities. /sci/ would have me believe that the humanities only exist anymore to scam students out of their money, which then goes straight into funding STEM labs. That's a good scam, but I'm not cruel enough to be part of it, at least not directly. I would prefer some middle way, where the students aren't financially crippled for life. Maybe some middling AI courses at an unremarkable college.

The bragging rights would come down to "I trick girls into learning programming and spend the rest of my time dozing off."

>>8400506
your reasoning?

>>8386282
is the maths tripos better than math 55 at harvard?

Loughborough Uni
Chemistry

>>8401424

>>8401547
and Manchester is 25 and was 28 last year,
Nottingham is 21 and was 25 last year.

are they shitty too?

also pic related, left is Aston, right is Birmingham for EEE.

>>8393656
Math. Math faculty is ranked like #20 in the world.

AFM if you're a normie.

>>8401667
How about Physical Science (Chem, Physics)?

>>8401454
You seem confused.

>>8386181
Holy shit I thought I was the only one from CCAC posting here.

>>8401676
Physics is ok, probably not as strong of an international reputation as Math/CS/engineering and it's a small department. Not sure about Chem.

I've taken quite a few courses from physics profs (CE here) and they're pretty helpful and generally nice people.

>>8381701
IIIT HYD INDIA CSE

>>8399490
What's so good about your university?

>>8390375
That sounds really nice. I've wanted to go there for so long, if I don't get in idk what I'll do with myself.

Experimental quantum computing

>>8401454
It's a graduate course, the two really aren't comparable

>>8390294
Why didn't you go to Carleton for Engineering?
>uOttawa
>run by marxist cunts
>has no real exceptional program
>only good for producing public servants since billingual.

Regardless, all the best to you.

>all these plebs bragging about anything outside the top 10

>seeing mostly well known and prestigious uni's
>going to a mediocre uni that most citizens rarely hear about.

Man, do I feel like a sheep among Lions, or what?

>>8401827
And where do you go, faggot

>>8401832
Fuck that anon, you can do great things. Don't get discouraged.

>>8398250
Concordia biology undergrad here.
Some McGill autists like to come by here in an attempt to start shitfests. Please don't interact with them.
And don't go more west than the McGill bubble for your own safety. The French seperatistes at UQAM will kick you back to the US.

Computer Engineering

Computer engineering

>>8401832

One of the few positives about going to a global top 5 uni is that I don't feel inferior to anyone due to brand name alone.

That said, I know enough people from other universities that I don't feel very superior either. The longer I've been here the less I think it means, especially if you're a hard-working and clever individual anyway (and there's no reason to think these wouldn't exist at non-top universities).

However, people maintaining the image of a meaningful distinction between universities of high ranking and the rest is beneficial for me so I'm not in any hurry to correct wider attitudes.

>>8402648
>The longer I've been here the less I think it means

You should go to a mediocre university and see how fast your mind changes then

>>8402707

I've kind of wanted to do that for a long time but might as well get a degree at this point. Being here is very stressful and frankly the workload feels more detrimental to my learning more than anything else and is certainly playing hell with my grades.

;_;

Math