/sci/ - Science & Math

UC irvine here

Spent a week over at UCSB(specifically, del playa in IV) and I don't understand how you can focus with all the parties, liter, homeless people everywhere. And there's 0 fucking parking, fuck that place. It's lots of fun though when you do wanna party.

>>9066131
>University of Casual Sex and Booze

i seriously don't understand how the supreme gentleman went here and couldn't pull any ass.

>>9066149
he was simply too nice of a guy.

>>9066149
I don't understand either. Parties every night of the week wth drunk ass whores walking around the streets all night.

Women probably sensed how autistic he was right off the bat.
Sad he couldn't even fake being a douche or something with his bmw to get laid or something.

If I knew him I think I could've gotten him laid with an uggo at least once.

>>9066149
He didn't go there though. He went to the shitty CC down the street.

Where the FUCK are my cornhuskers at? Ive seen at least 1 other anon that browses 4chan here.

>>9066158
Even then, tons of people from that CC come and party in Isla Vista

>>9066160
How does it feel to be the only big 10 school not in the Association of American Universities?

>>9066209
Feels alright. Only here two more years and it is free. Plan on applying to much better schools for grad school so dont think employers will care either

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Pure math/ physics major here.

TFW comfy summer classes for math.

>>9066258
I'm kidding lol, I like Nebraska. In my experiences you guys have the nicest fans out of any of the B1G schools.

I also want to go on the record saying Michigan fans fucking suck.

>>9066196
i was on the Navy base an hour south of there and i went to isla vista to pick up skanks.

Masters of feeling horribly insecure here

>>9066160
I attend a college in the Nebraska State College System. Believe it or not, we do at least one program better than UNL, UNO, or UNK.

My brother and his wife are huskers and both of them browse 4chan.

>>9066160
Are you presenting at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences this spring? I scooped that sweet fellowship grant.

>>9066131
yeee i fucked around at sbcc for ya year
i have schiod personlity disorder and other people weird me out and i stil pullled qts evrytime i went out location is great

too fucking devothough evergreen state is more lit -3
fuck me dad

>>9066405
Never heard of it desu. Might have to look into it next year (senior).Have done a UCARE project last year and plan on doing some undergrad research this year (not through a program, just emailed a professor).

>>9066149
He was social incapable and probably never even tried. He expected women to just come up to him and worship him.

Id expect a few purduefags on here

>>9066131
>tfw no free rec cen membership over the summer

>>9067203
Be me >>9066423
>go outside
>walk into the loudest party
>grabbed by multiple women every 10 minutes to dance
>I'm 6'2 so it's not hard
> see the right girl 7/10 bounce through the gate
>she bumps into me
>excus.... I cut her off
>did you come here to dance ?
>she grabs me
>1 minute later
>twerking on my dick with head between her ankles
>really going ham
>turns out she was a gymnast
>lights and cameras on us everywhere
>pull her up and say we should get out of here
>try to leave but it's a dead end alley
>conveint dirty fouton
>getting sloopy top
>look up and see 7 phones on me
> my wiener is now snapchat famous in IV
I have tons of similar stories and I have also never had a gf, a sexual relationship beyond one nighters, and do not experience any feelings for my sexual partners. Half the time I would take a lady home and would lose my erection because things got too intimate.

All you have to do to get laid in IV is go outside. Being tall, handsome, and knowing what to say helps too.

I just wish I could love another human being

UC Berkeley, any golden bears?

UCLA math here

>>9066155
I go there famalam, just finished soph year of chemE

Starting this fall. What should I expect?

I go to shitty state school cus I will long have any debt once I graduate. Just wanna finish already desu.

I don't have to go to college because I'm smart enough to read a book by myself and self teach me stuff instead of a brainlet who needs teachers to learn something, and also rich so I'll never need to get a job and thus never get a degree.

>>9067641

Only brown UC Lower Achiever bears

>>9067724
I'll be going there this fall. Have you basked in Tao's presence? What should I expect

>>9067865

>Go to state school

>Still 50k+ debt

Fuck me

>>9067976
Which major? I'm doing EE. I'm gonna have to grind extra hard to make my resume look polished once I start looking for jobs. Doesn't help a UC is really close to my shit school. Just wanna kms

Just finished frosh year. En route to Aerospace Engineering. Working in a SmallSat lab atm on radios and communications with pay considered an untaxable scholarship. Grants+scholarships basically paying me to go to school. First name basis with my profs

feelsgoodman

>>9068063
that is MIT? or university of michigan?

>>9068093
University of Minnesota

>>9066312
Jew U gave me 0 financial aid and expected my parents to pick up the 62k tab for the first year

>>9066131

>go to cheap state school
>kick metric ton of ass
>get into really good grad school

Is it possible /sci/? Please be honest...

>>9068131
I'd transfer from the state school to a research institute as soon as you can. As long as you do well in classes, it's usually easier to transfer than to be outright accepted

>>9066131

>>9067853
What school and what major

You should be able to get a job/go to grad school for almost anything but seriously there is a major or class for absolutely anything so its not like there is a blanket experience.

>>9068145
Is this true? Any experience with this stuff?

>>9068131
Is there research there to participate in or can you get some research experience somewhere? That will help for sure. My undergrad school wasnt and still isnt even ranked for EE on most lists and I got into a top 5 EE masters (went to a european uni for funding/neat experience still top 20 or 15 in world). I knew some from EE went to stanford, umich, berkeley, uiuc and maybe more top 10 schools for phds even

>>9067853
I just graduated from Cornell. I really enjoyed my time there as a CS/Physics major. If you take higher-level math classes, try to take one with Steven Strogatz at some point.
There's a dairy facility, so you'll have great ice cream.
And the gorges, lake, and botanical gardens make for beautiful surroundings. Pic related is Bebe lake at night.

>>9068153
What do you think of UR? I'm looking to go there or UBuff for grad school.

>>9068212
I like it a lot.
The open curriculum in particular is great; only one writing requirement, which can be fulfilled in several ways.

>>9067724
How hard is math at UCLA?

/Mines/?

Got myself a mines park room for next semeter. Hopefully they finish the intersection by then.

>>9067641
Cal CS major here

Universidad de Chile

Any medbro here?

>>9066156
he wasn't into uggos, did you even read his manifesto?!?!?

>>9068228
TomHenry?

>>9067835
Oh wow, i may be TAing you in the fall, not assigned yet to a class but it could potentially be a chemistry class. really didnt think to see anyone else from RPI here.
I've never been other than my admit trip, but the graduate facilities blew my mind. Can you give me any useful information about living in Troy, or the school in general?

>Paying to read books.

>>9068019

Physics/Math, haven't started yet though I might be too brainlet and switch to a meme major

>>9068357

Pretty much, but society demands you hold a $100,000 piece of paper so you can qualify yourself to sit in front of a computer and maybe make $50,000 a year.

>>9068384

This. Anyone who's not a brainlet can probably get most basic undergrad classes done in high school, but the piece of paper matters.

>>9066160
>Nebraska

I plan on going to UCD soon, any advice from you brutally honest faggots:^). Just asking since the Dangerous Faggot spoke there but there was a protest against him and I want to know what I should look out for. Also what are their best programs that you guys could tell me based on your experiences since I am skeptical about US Rankings. And yes I am only able to transfer to UCD since I have 3.2 GPA and not much in extra curriculars to get to that liberally faggoty UCB or Stanford.

>>9068384
not society's fault you picked an expensive school for a shit major

>>9067641
I'm going there next year, freshman.
Hoping to major in math. What should I expect?

>>9069298
>What should I expect?
shitlibs and loads of them.

>>9068208
As a highschool senior who knows the Ivies for nothing but their rep, why would you recommend Cornell to someone?

>>9066131
>whom

any more of you faggots in here?

>>9068275
Same Uni, but
>med
Gross

>>9069298
In the math department? Hard upper divs, some apathetic professors, really interesting topics, some really nice and passionate professors, some pretentious kids, a lot of really smart ones, expensive cost of living, and depending on what you're used to, probably a very hard first semester. It gets easier though, and I have no regrets.

Also people complaining about the school being too liberal don't really know what they're talking about, you'll see when you get here - most students are moderate, and the people who show up on campus and do dumb shit aren't students, just antifa and the alt-right being stupid

Hi

>>9069596

I was looking at doing math there. What do you study?

>>9068275
what year?

>>9070404
S'up fellow CCfag.

Feels nice to pay cheap for Gen Eds desu senpai.

>>9066131
realistically, how hard is college? is the workload more or less than high school?

>>9070654
First 2 years are not really more difficult than highschool. Most people fail or dont succeed because they are either terrible at time management, or terrible at managing their vices once they are living on their own. Workload is 100% manageable if you have good study habits.

>>9070663
oh and the later 2 years do become fairly workload intensive, but at that point you should be treating studying like a job, so spend actual time allocated to each class.

>>9070654
ez pz

op try not to get an std in dp

>>9067229
sup

>>9066312
Warren Towers?

>>9070758
1047 Comm Ave boi. Bow to my in-room laundry and full kitchen.

>>9068228
ay we outchea
have lived there this summer, I'd bet large sums of money it's not done by then

>>9067641
tell the WHOLE DAMN WORLD this is bear territory
MechE here

>>9069557
It's probably one of the most laid back Ivies. I don't mean the coursework is easy, but I think the general attitudes are pretty supportive, and not snobbish at all, which alleviates stress especially in times of academic crisis.

I declined a Berkeley offer for undergrad and grad school.

>>9070943
Why

>>9070654
It depends. I graduated from high school by doing nothing. Once I got into college I had to study nearly every day to pass my courses. High school was easy, uni was hard.

>>9070943
Where did you go instead?

>>9070654
I dont know it depends on the college really. My first two years of college so far have been easier than high school simply because of the time and workload. High school is like 8 hours a day of like 7 or 8 classes in a row. College you might have days with no classes or days with 5 classes. Idk some people find it hard, but to me the lower amount of classes and time spent per day is just way easier.

Anyone go to Strathclyde?

>>9067749
My Nigga. How are thise exams coming along?

>>9067749
>>9071343
Hey! I will soon start my masters at ETH (undergrad from US) and I was wondering how exactly the class, lecture, exam schedule is? The info on their website is somewhat weird?

For example, for spring semester this year it says lectures end June 2nd, but semester exams start May 22nd? And then after that there is gap from June 16th to August 7th and then session exams start until September 1st? Are session exams just like final exams over the previous semester?

>>9070505
First

>>9068153
Shit me too dog, what major?

>>9071868
Prob math/phys, you?

>>9071894
Probably same shit or + CS, I'm an incoming freshman

>>9070790
You faggots are insufferable, almost worse than Stanford

>>9071904
I'm also an incoming freshman, and may also diverge to include CS

>>9068226
Not the same fag, but I go to ucla math.

It honestly varies from class to class, professor to professor. You can have one professor make a class so needlessly tedious & difficult, and others make the class nothing but a joy to be in. The major problem with UCLA's math department is that they've got their head up their asses with how "good" of a school they are. It's with this in mind, that profs make what should be an easy class way too fucking hard for literally no reason. Many professors just read out of a textbook; I've had at least 3 or 4 professors in the math department straight up not knowing what they're teaching. But there are good professors you just have to know you're learning style and be flexible with your scheduling. The Honors classes are fun if you're motivated/interested.

>>9067973
If you're transferring in as a junior, take the Honors Algebra in the fall with professor Richard Elman. Easily best math prof I've ever taken. Definitely recommend the Honors Linear Algebra with David Gieseker, he's old & his lectures are scattered but the class is easy and he's very kind. The professor teaching Honors Analysis, I know nothing about but she did get her PhD under Tao. You can look on the website and see who is teaching what courses in the math department all year so you can look them up online if you want to.

>>9066131

Starting a Masters of Applied Science in Aerospace Engineering in September. I'm doing computational aerodynamics and aerodynamics shape optimization research. Should be good.

>>9071914
Hope you are steering clear of that main groupme. It makes me sweat that the whole school is reddit embodied

>>9069596
2nd year CS PhD hbu

>>9071924
>the whole school is reddit embodied
honestly what university isnt though

>>9071933
Any southern school

Any cougs here?

>>9066155
Fuck rpi, I almost went there but the tuition is ridiculous not worth the price at all imo

>>9071964
100% agreed. But im here in graduate school, i went to CC then state school for undergrad. But yea, like 45k or something, more than 4 years for me.
that being said, the graduate facility is fucking amazing, and is probably why tuition is so expensive, to pay for the toys i play with

>>9069667
why tho? There are some "degenerates" but the rest of the people are pretty cool
and it's an awesome school

>>9071985
I was only kidding, med is cool.
I don't like how the constant student strikes are lowering the quality of La Chile though. Fucking commies.

>>9071966
Decided to just go to shitty state school with decent engineering program instead. State school is cheap as fuck and I can go debt free while I would've been 100k+ in debt after 4 years at rpi

>>9071343

Pretty terrible tbqh, should suffice for a pass though. Good luck to you, anon.

>>9071435

Concerning your schedule, check you the mystudies ETHZ page. You will find the exact details (time/place/etc) for the classes you signed up for.

As for exams, it depends on your classes. There are exam sessions during the semester, depending on your class/course. In addition, there is also a designated "exam session" that is right before the beginning of the next semester. Hope this helps and best of luck to you too, anon.

am I literally the only person from McGill

>>9072021
smart man. I have 0 debt at the moment, doing what i did was the smartest gamble i ever did, betting on my own assertiveness to do well enough in stateschool to where id be accepted to a private research institute. Even if it's a shitty school, if you get the right letters of rec, GPA, and GRE, you'll be a valuable candidate.
consider us for grad school!

>>9072051
Sorry to be a retard but what is gre

>>9070943

I declined Berkeley and went for ookla. Yes I regret it.

>>9070969

This is only true if you went to a shit high school with low standards

>>9071918
Hey, I'm transferring to UCLA math as a junior this fall. I took the honors math sequence at my CC as well as an Intro to Tensors & Calculus on Manifolds class. Any recommendations to best prepare myself for UCLA math?

>>9072073
graduate requirement exam, it's a standardized test for graduate school admission. Quantitative, verbal, and writing section. Don't worry i didnt know what it was until junior year of undergrad

>>9070790
AYE THIS IS FUCKING BEAR TERRITORY
CAL #1
EECS here Master race

>>9072075
4/10

could have been something better, even "chad illumination" would do

>impregnates every girl he sees
hmm, going overboard a bit

Make way for the best CS program

>>9072075
this picture is fucking amazing

Anyone? The guy from here was in /uni/ general in /r9k/ a year ago

>>9072154
my gf in highschool ended up going there and got a 200k art degree. i warned her so much. she now moves art for rich people for slightly above minimum kek

I'm entirely retarded in many ways and have hated my time here but I think it's 80% because of me being me and 20% because of Cambridge being Cambridge.

>>9068174
Arts & Sciences, Math (possibly double major w/ something related)

>>9072204
what degree?

>>9072260
Physics

>>9072265
I think I remember you posting on here before. You were complaining about feeling stupid because you were only averaging a 2:1.

>>9072082
I went to OCC as well, I graded for that class in the spring 17 and took it spring 2016. My name's Ryan. My Gf was in that class. Take Honors Linear, honors analysis, and honors algebra in the fall. It will be good, let's stay in contact. I might take classes with you.

>>9072082
>>9072271
Ryan here again, as far as preparing review Spivak for analysis. If you took discrete math with Art then review his algebra text too. If not you will be fine. Linear is pretty easy; in Arts class you had to memorize more and at UCLA it's more about problem solving than memorization. We can meet up in the math Hall at LA or at The community college if you like

>>9072077
Not really. High school was seriously easy for me, I know this because I was into a low tier and a high tier school.

>>9066131
The Georgia Institute of Technology. I also went to a different college before going to Georgia Tech, but Tech is on a whole other plane of existence when it comes to coursework difficulty, volume, and involvement. When you go there, you're not the smart kid anymore. In a word, a lot of us never had to study before we came to Tech. I hang the gown on my wall to remind me I'm not always worthless.

>>9066131
>>9066131
>whom is
You don't use "whom" with linking verbs. It's not a subject pronoun; it's an object pronoun.
>he:him::who:whom
Hope you don't write professional communications like that.

>>9072270
Yeah. That was mostly because I really busted my ass trying to get a first and then was 0.3% off when I thought for sure I was home dry. But as far as things go, 2.1 is fine and gets me to the next step so whatever, I've mellowed out.

Worrying that someone recognises me, but that's what I get for posting in these threads.

>>9072340
Don't you still have a year left though?

2nd yr Econ PhD. Basically a school for ppl who couldn't into Berkeley. Sactown sucks big time.

>>9072349

Yep. I needed a 2:1 to get to the last year. Otherwise I would have graduated with a BA.

>>9071712
call me senpai then, I'm in second year

>>9072356
Wait, so if you get a 2:2, then Cambridge gives you BA rather than a BSc as a dig?

Missouri S&T

Am I fucked? I'm scared this place's rep isn't nearly as good as I was told it was.

>>9072368
>Missouri S&T
It's probably shit man

>>9070939
>general attitudes are pretty supportive, and not snobbish at all
Sounds like where I'm going. For all the prestige, the people are pretty open. I'm pretty sure a lot of us are just stressed & lonely.

>>9072299
I just tell myself that college is just supposed to be this hard.

>>9072376
What about University of Missouri - Rolla? Went through a name change a few years back.

>>9072383
desu mate I have no idea but any university that is outside the top 100 nationally is going to be relatively unknown to anyone outside that state or the states surrounding it.

>>9067027
LETS GO GATORS, glad to see more on the thread, used to live in Rawlings my Freshman year to prove no lies

Long shot, I know.

Any UVa fucks around here?

#LanceUp

>>9072159


Have some more rare Chads

>>9072159

>>9072159

R A R E

>>9072159

Chad has never even heard of an engineering degree

>>9072503
Was Mussolini /chad/, boys?

>>9072509
Nothing but a frustrated manlet.

>>9072506
>always cool pillow
god damn it ive been laughing for like 5 minutes

>>9067641
we should have a discord chat

>>9071964
In the same boat here, went to Binghamton instead but the campus of RPI was pretty beautiful when i went there. Might consider for grad school if I don't end up getting my MS early.

>>9072550
do it, the graduate facility is top tier. and if they accepted my ass i encourage anyone to apply

>>9072508
Kek, new balance

>>9072508
>>9072506
>>9072503
>>9072075
this is honestly some of the best satire to come out of 4chan in years.

Starting here in August

>>9072981
what program? currently there for chemistry graduating this fall then idk no research no rec letters just 3.4 gpa

>>9072982
Might change, but right now CompSci Major and looking at a definite Math minor/possible Math Major.

Anyone /liberalartscollege/? I graduated from a NESCAC school last year. I studied Bio and Math.

>>9072299
>cords aren't white and gold
Just tickling your balls a bit. Buzz made me gay.

Any UoA, or even just other /NZ here?

How difficult is it for an American to get accepted to work towards a PhD in Germany or Switzerland?

>>9072365
No. All Bachelor's degrees awarded by Cambridge are BAs, for historical reasons and to confuse people. This doesn't have the same meaning as BAs from most universities.

Some courses, like Physics, also offer a fourth year after which you get a Master's, in this case MSci. This fourth year typically has a grade barrier (2:1 or first depending on the course).

Anyone at UPENN? I'm working in a lab there now, and planning on applying to a grad program there this winter.

Anyone at UPenn? I'm working in a lab there now, and planning on applying to a grad program there this winter.

guarantee nobody has heard of it

>>9073082
don't think it's very hard at less known universities in east Germany for example

if you want to go to ETH Zurich or TU Munich yeah it's probably going to be competitive

joint majoring in computer science and math
also severe depression

>>9071435
>>9071343
How do you guys afford to study there? Don't you need a budget of like 1.5k month?

>>9071918
How hard is it to get a 3.6+? (I'm premed so I need as high a GPA as I can get)

anyone else?

>>9073257
>Mizzou athletics
>athletics

Oh yeah, I've heard that you really need some muscle over there.

>>9066149
He was gay.

>>9073170

Tuition is extremely low and if you know where to look you can live off a low budget in Zurich. The real struggle is just finding a cheap apartment.

>>9069596
>>9070412
>>9071932
mein negeren

>>9071932
>2nd year CS PhD
great, now i have to perpetually wonder if any of my TAs shitpost here

that feel when no badass logo like Heidelberg

>>9066131
my last week, studied microbio getting my BS

>>9073360

> being a biter

>>9070790
>>9072123
jesus christ someone take these kids out

US ee student moving to wales in september

not a great uni but i like the place and my classes look exciting

Gonna study physics at Jyväskylä
Pretty sure no one here has even heard of the uni

>>9066146
>University of Chinese Immigrants

>>9073984
lmaoooo im not him but i legit met a vietnamese immigrant girl on countrstrike from uci biomed eng program and fukt her

legit havent seen a single person going to that school that isnt an asian immigrant

Am I the only one here that goes to a shit state school and is embarrassed to say where specifically?

>>9070758
>living in Warren
lmaoing @ ur life

>>9073161
Are you a bot on tinder?

>>9073981
Regards to bönde.

>>9068121
ayyy currently wearing a pair of umass sweatpants.

who else chicago moron here?

>>9073220
It's nearly impossible to get in for pre-med/bio/chem. Much easier for math/physics to get in, I recommend doing physics or math and take some bio courses if you want to go to med school. The thing about med school is everyone applying did bio/chem/pre-med so those are the least likely to get in, whereas for math/physics there's only a few students applying every year, so your chances of getting into med school are significantly greater

Who /rice/ here? My only "company" so far is riceposter in /sp/ and nobody likes him.

o x f o r d

>>9074197
you guys have some great parties. does NOD still happen?

>>9074197
Ruck Fice

Nah just kidding, Rice is pretty great. I almost went as an undergrad but I decided it was too expensive, then a couple of months ago I applied for grad school but I ended up taking a job offer instead. What are you studying?

>>9074226

Your to slow are'nt you?

>>9074197

Them owls been seeing shit you wouldn't believe.

>>9074159
That's my plan, but I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my GPA up if the classes are too hard.

>>9073159
I'd consider LMU Munich ideal, though TUM or ETH are equally acceptable.

I just can't find much on PhD selection criteria for them, much less for non-EU nationals.

>>9073279
athletics is the #1 reason their state funding is being restored, would be churlish to just use the regular logo.

>>9074126
did my undergrad there.
enjoy your inevitable neurotic breakdown around 2nd/3rd year.

>>9074210
It most certainly does. I don't go though. There are other parties held that night if a cramped, sweaty room isn't your thing.

>>9074226
Fled CS to EE after a nightmare algorithm course. Not that the EE fundamentals classes have been kind to my GPA either. I'm doing a photonics and nano specialization as that seemed the most enlightening and utilized the most physics of the major.

>>9074392
i went my freshman year like 10 years ago, and exactly as you said, gross cramped and sweaty. But it was worth just going for the experience.
My friend stayed at hanson house think it was called, we used to sit on the roof for hours smoking bongs and drinking and shit. Good times

>>9072490
I'm thinking of applying there. How's it like for math? Is everyone there pretentious or just whatever?

>>9067229
Just graduated. Starting my PhD at IU in a few weeks.

>>9072416
lel taking an online class from there

>going to medicore uni in the fall
>didnt care about school underclassmen years
>only started to pay any attention last two years but wasn't enough to salvage gpa. 1480 sat

am i fucked /sci/? is it possible to just work my ass off, get a 4.0 gpa, do underclassmen research, and then transfer to a good top 30 uni after two years?

>>9069853
I dont give a shit about the politics. You said hard upper divs. I have the opportunity to take Math 110 and i've taken mit OCW linear algebra and a differential equations class at a local state uni. No problems with either but idk if they are even close to the same. Should I or should I just stick with H54? I havent been able to get a straight answer out of anyone.

>>9073987
Well you're either blind or lying. I go to UC Irvine and I'm not an Asian immigrant. I also see plenty of non Asians there. 0/10

>>9068316
?

>>9070772
I mean they had it mostly paved the last I saw

A school not really worth knowing about

New college, ncf.

>>9074615
probs because you've got a retarded major in history or something

legit every person in biomed eng is asian

0/10

william & mary

Who /ncstate/ here?

>>9074126
>Chicago
>>9074353
currently doing undergrad in maths. what year are you

>>9074353
>>9074925
rising senior studying CS. Honestly the school is not quite the hell on earth it's made out to be.

>>9074126
>>9074925
I'm a different guy who is also doing math.
As for whether it's hell probably depends on what you want out of undergrad. This place is pretty non-typical, but I find it really fulfilling.

>>9073078
I was there for a semester but I ended up moving to the states for a 4 year BA.

I enjoyed my semester there a lot, but uni life at UoA is practically non existent compared to the US or even Otago. If I wasn't living in one of the res halls I probably would have died of boredom.

>>9074056
i noticed that too...

>>9066146
Starting grad school (math) at UCI soon. Nice area. Any comment on the school?

>>9075036
Kiyoshi?

>>9074652
iirc they still haven't paved the road to take a right on 6th leaving mines
think the pedestrian bit is done to get to campus though, which is probably the important part

>>9073161
Did my undergrad there. CAS CS is pretty lame. Math department is pretty great. Try to take classes with Shatah or Spencer in math. Schoup is a big name in cryptography.
I regret not hanging out with Tandon people more. They're a much more tight-knit group.

>>9075038
Nah

>>9075036
UCI is probably the best UC, it's not too hard, it has the best location, it's not a party school, the people are focused and it has great opportunities

Anyone from Warsaw?
Chemistry here, about to finish my first cycle
Thinking about going to med school, eventually, in the Us. Hows is the weather at california ?

>>9068774
I never went there but I grew up in Davis. UCD has a really fantastic ag department afaik. Also cs and engineering. Be prepared for a pretty shitty liberal neohippie town with very little to do (then again it's probably much different to be in davis as a UCD student than a resident). Also, I hope you like Thai food and boba tea. Avoid downtown on picnic day.

>>9074094
Asun nyt viel stadis mut pitää muuttaa Jyväskylään
Mulle muutos on ihan okei, oon viettäny koko elämäni Myllypuro-Kontula akselilla ja maisemnvaihdos kuulostaa hyvältä
Sitäpaitsi Jyväskyl on ihan mukava kaupunki, näin siellä vaan yhden arabin ja silläkin oli musta silmä. Paikka oli täynnä sporttisia blondeja, ero Helsinkiin verrattuna on huomattava

>>9071962
uw seems better in all aspects except agriculture

>>9072353
What majors are better at Davis than Berkeley?

>>9075055
O, kurwa. Nareszcie, inny chemik.

>>9074925
did my B.S. at UChicago, I just finished my M.S. at a different school, about to start a Ph.D. at Mizzou

Starting here in a week or two. Any other miners here?

>>9074507
presuming that SAT score is out of 1600 it should be reasonably possible.

>>9071435
>>9067749
What did it take to get into ETHZ?

>>9073342
Well lucky for you I'm funded as an RA now.

>>9075833

A German language certificate and passing entrance examinations (3 written and 4 orals exams).

If you graduated a highschool with all specific requirements, besides taking German in highschool, but also having maths, physics, chemistry and biology as your main subjects with decent grades you should get in without a problem. That is for undergrads though. I progressed with no problem to the graduate programs, but I don't know what it's like for foreign students in that regard.

>>9074658

What year? What AoC? I fucking hate this place too lad, don't worry.

>>9073220
Do psychobio or EEB for GPA. If you're super smart do ChemE or math or some rarer, hard shit. Chemistry/biochemistry is unnecessarily difficult with harder class tracks. Avoid at all costs.

>>9076779
To answer your question: easy to get 3.6+ in most bio majors, quite difficult for engineering or anything upstream from biochemistry (i.e. p-chem, physics, math).

>>9076779
>>9076783
>psychobio
>eeb
I have no interest in these. I think I'll just major in math and then not take upper division classes

Structural Engineering Senior here, am taking my last undergraduate final in two days- I'm set to start my Master's in less than a month, which is when I will get annihilated. This school has a reputation for being absurdly theory-based and for producing extremely-narrow minded savants, and it is entirely true. I've squeezed out a 3.64 GPA and am frustratingly inept at most other things

>>9076845
Why do people like you want to do med? You will hate your life.

>>9076966
I know how it sounds, but I want to save lives and help people live. If I choose engineering or math/physics I'll end up depressed. Medicine allows me to live with a purpose

>>9075299
do other colleges care a whole lot about what your stats were in high school if you transfer after two years of college?

>>9073360

that's a really bad imitation of MIT's logo

>>9071924
>>9071868
>>9071894
>>9071904
go be friends

>>9077020
I don't even think my transfer school looked at my SAT scores but then again I went to a brainlet school; I'm sure if you go to an actual uni they'll at least take it into consideration

I smoked pot w johnny hopkins

>>9076866
The architectural & infrastructure-based disciplines tend to be theoretical no matter where you go. They can't go letting students actually have their buildings made, so it's just something that's on the bill when you choose structural. Of course, you can get around that by going into a real-world training program with one of the many companies lined up at Tech's door, though the low demand specifically for trainee-level structural engineers could make it a chore to hunt one down.

Also, for its more hands-on flagship programs, Tech is definitely more than theory. If you nose around campus some, you'll find that there are plenty of workshops and high-end tools available for the students to tinker. Even though I graduated mechanical, I spent many a moon in the MRDC electronics workshop and learned a lot more than I planned to.

>>9077163
>>9076866
Hello fellow Georgians, UGA Pharmacy Student reporting (did UGA for undergrad as well). I always thought all of Tech's girls would be awful looking, but they really aren't, there are def. some qts around. Not like Athens, but you know.

>>9077177
A lot of the Asian girls at Tech really are virgins. So there's that, if you're into it.

What a fucking wash, honestly. More than half of my hours next semester are online because there's no in-class equivalent for core-required classes, and I'm on a wait-list for all my major-required classes. I should've fucking gone to A&M.

>>9077462

What's your major?

SDSU for molecular biology. Anyone else in San Diego?

Wanted to stay here for undergraduate. Was accepted to UCSD but they gave me no financial aid while SDSU gave me a full ride.

>tfw CompE
>tfw overqualified for the university you're attending

Anyone else know this feel?

>>9079718
No you're not.

>>9079723
I am tho

>>9079743
If you think that, you will fail. If you fail to see the accomplishments of those who are around you, you will be overlooked. Life doesn't take kindly to arrogant pricks.

>>9079749
I get what you're saying, but I'm seriously legit overqualified for this place. I'm not bragging about it or anything. I don't feel proud of it and I don't feel good about it either.

>>9079763
If you think you're overqualified for the fourth best school in the country, you're objectively wrong.
Stop being a stupid freshman and challenge yourself. If it's easy you're doing it wrong.

>>9079771
I got baited to attend by the rankings, and so did everyone else here. But the thing about rankings is that they're just a number and nobody in the real world really cares that Illinois is #4 or #1 or #5 in anything.

Having actually been here for a couple of years now and seeing what the typical undergrad student here is like (grading their assignments, TAing senior level classes, etc), I can honestly say that the quality of the students here, on a pure merit basis, just doesn't stack up.

I've found that if you take away the rankings and perception, the substance just isn't there. At least at the undergraduate level.

Even when comparing between the curricula here and some lower ranked university, a lot of times the lower ranked university just has an objectively more rigorous and comprehensive treatment of the material. I'm not even joking. I've sat on the curriculum committee for a class where a graduate student who did his undergrad at CMU proposed a change to make it in line with what he experienced in his undergrad, and they shot it down because they were scared that the students didn't know enough C and they felt it was better to stick with Java.

>>9070532
Same, what's your GPA, major, and where are you transferring to?

>>9068208
>And the gorges, lake, and botanical gardens make for beautiful surroundings
You mean when it's not freezing cold, which is most of the year. It's hard to appreciate anything when you're just trying to stay warm inside of a building, studying all the time.

>>9070939
> I don't mean the coursework is easy
No, it's actually pretty hard if you're a mere mortal. There are too many smart people at Cornell, especially in the engineering school. But I agree with everything else.
Try to join clubs. They will save you if you are not extraordinarily outgoing.

>>9066149
I was too timid. Looking back there were many times when I could've gotten laid but I chicken out.

Banana Slugs anyone?

>>9079798
Well if it is ABET accreditted then undergrad ranking is a meme and doesnt really matter. Grad school is where ranking is more important, but ranking lists arent always the best for looking at a specific specialization inside a field of study.

>>9079798
>the students didn't know enough C and they felt it was better to stick with Java

That doesn't sound right, considering that C programming is required for the curriculum, starting at ECE 220:
>http://www.ece.illinois.edu/academics/ugrad/curriculum/
>https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/ece220/Course+Overview+and+Policies

That's not to say that every student displays anything more than surface-level understanding of their coursework. There really are a bunch of people from these programs who are unprepared to face the world, who have a hard time figuring out things that aren't enumerated for them in a textbook. It's a real bitch being on a team with these people in a required course, but it makes a decent story for the job interview if you wind up having to drag them along to get your grade.

There are also people who are, as you put it, overqualified. They're not as few and far between as you might think, though they're often the minority if there isn't a well-established professional work program on campus. Co-ops and internships really do build up the wisdom you're referring to when it comes to qualification. I'll tell you that once you graduate, the only qualifications that matter are your DOCUMENTED achievements. It's really not enough to be more intellectually lucid than your peers. What exactly have you done that makes you overqualified?

anyone here??

>>9080190
I should have said that example of mine was in the CS dept, not ECE.

>It's a real bitch being on a team with these people in a required course, but it makes a decent story for the job interview if you wind up having to drag them along to get your grade.
I didn't know anyone in a certain systems course when I was taking it since everyone was a junior or senior, so I got randomed with 3 seniors. My naive self thought they'd be somewhat decent because they were a random sample. I was wrong - they were shit precisely because they represented the average. The only thing that made me get an A in that class after barely finishing the final MP was that I was hitting above 2 standard deviations on every exam.

And it's useless bitching about them in a job interview because employers don't want sob stories. Not constantly smiling is already a red flag for any job interviewer.

>I'll tell you that once you graduate, the only qualifications that matter are your DOCUMENTED achievements
Yeah, here's the thing. The "documented achievements" that most students here brag about is being part of some charity group, or being student council president in high school, or even worse yet, being oppressed because of being a minority or something. Just a bunch of soft factors which make it really pathetic considering the major they chose.

If you really took a good hard look at their resume and completely removed the part where they say they attend here, you'd assume they went to ITT Tech or something like that.

>What exactly have you done that makes you overqualified?
Right off the bat, I had an SAT score of, lets say north of 2.3K. I thought I'd meet many people like that here so it wasn't a big deal. I was very, very wrong.

I have a 4.0 GPA. And no, it's not because of retarded intro freshman physics, calculus, or chemistry because I credited all that when entering. No, I didn't go to community college either.

I have published papers too. Any more and I'll doxx myself.

>>9074442
underage

ASE here, about to enter my second year.
>>9077462
what fucking meme major are you in

>>9068126
How much do your parents make?

>>9072490
Hi :DDDDDDDDDDD

Incoming first year to SEAS. What school are you?

>>9081042
>having to work in a group
nah you are not overqualified bud.
Also please dont refer to your SAT score when in college or you will just be seen as a joke. At least use GRE because it is not as obvious bait

Any University of Calgary fags here?

Just kidding, I know you guys are here. Please stop browsing /pol/ unironically.

>>9075054
>UCI is probably the best UC
fight me
-t. UCLA alumni

>>9068226
>>9072082
there are two routes
1. the standard non-honors route
2. the honors route
1 seemed normal, nothing crazy
2 will drive you crazy. your undergrad courses will have the expectations of graduate courses (in my year, they were harder because the professor decided to "push" the 99% international asians in analysis - basic qualifying exam was super easy after that). you will take graduate courses senior year or sooner.

>>9081198
oh, and to give you an idea of how things turned out:
i graduated with 3.3 overall, 3.0 in major - part of that was some classes not letting more than 8 students get As, but most of it was me. i was caught in a place where i wanted to go to grad school, but the only places i felt i would get into were ones where i would spend the first year taking courses i already had because of my poor grades (which i did not feel were indicative of my actual knowledge). when i was studying for the math GRE subject test, i was getting very, very high scores on practice exams, but i didn't feel that would be enough. so i got a job, and i work as a mathematician now. it's great.

>>9081212
I'm at UCLA now in the same boat. Is there hope for me? What work do you do?

>>9068351
Troy really isn't as bad as some people make it out to be
Its like a less wealthy brooklyn. Where are you gonna be living?

>>9081232
there might be hope for you, it depends on you. if i ask you "what are you doing" and you can answer that without hesitation, you'll probably be fine.

>>9081212
>part of that was some classes not letting more than 8 students get As
I'm in physics at LA and that shit drives me up the fucking wall. Outside of 4AL and 4BL it's generally not a thing in the physics department, but I took a class on plasma electronics in the engineering department and it seemed so fucking contrived. They made the exams incredibly difficult (the average was like 25%) and gave practically nobody an A. I don't get why the engineering departments choose to do this when all it does it disadvantage UCLA students in terms of getting into grad school and it's disappointing to hear it happens in maths too

>>9081261
engineering is different though, since the department will walk you into a job. not bashing on engineers or claiming one major is harder than another, but for all of the difficulty they have all sorts of guidance, career fairs, etc. for engineers specifically. every single engineer undergrad said it was hard, and every single one felt that if they didn't get a job immediately after graduating (or months before) it was because they themselves screwed up big time somewhere. to be fair, that's probably because the department has an easier time guiding students in more specific fields of study than "math"

>>9081080
After taxes? <<100,000. It wasn't like I was retarded either. BU was the only school to not give me ANY scholarships. Fucking ass holes. Private schools are a meme
>accepted to RPI
>$25k scholarship
>"HOLY SHIT THATS AWESOME ANON"
>cost of attendance: $50k+
>"s-state school doesn't look so bad..."

>>9081042
>sob stories
Not sob stories. They're gonna want to know about a time that you faced adversity, and you can frame it as a time when you took the reins of leadership for the team. They might also hit you with what you tried to do to get them to work and what you would do in a work environment where people can actually face discipline for dragging ass.

>If you really took a good hard look at their resume
You'd have to see their resumes for you to judge it. If you can manage it, try attending a career fair and asking other students if you could have a copy of their resumes. That way, you can get an objective grasp on the kind of people you're attending (and eventually competing) with.

That said, any employer knows that charity work or burger flipping would just be filler. That's to say that they wouldn't care about it unless you go for an apprentice-level position like a co-op or internship. They're gonna care about the apprentice-level work and not the filler when you get to the entry-level, though.

>SAT
Employers won't care, and after the application process, even the college doesn't care, so for all intents and purposes, it is not an achievement.

>GPA
It's an achievement to some, but beware of hard GPA requirements. The ones that care that much about GPA are the ones who can't otherwise judge whether or not you can do the job. Senior engineers' judgment is a better metric than GPA, but not everyone wants to offer direct oversight. They sometimes just watch what they give you and what you spit out. That's to say, they don't know what you're doing anyway, and that may apply to other people you're put onto a team with. Soft GPA requirements are less likely to be trouble, though.

>published papers
Though it doesn't overqualify you, this might count as an achievement, provided that you wrote something that couldn't have been written by just anyone that was your age. Extra points if it shows passion for the field that you wind up applying for.

2nd year chemist with a 2:1 (hope to push up to 1st next year)

>>9073279
Kek

>>9072265
Postgrad?

>>9079805
Just finished my first semester, I can't speak much but so far it has been good.

>GPA
IIRC my GED finished with 3.2 GPA but then again I finished it quickly with high scores, but now it will have 3.6 because of the 2 A's from this summer semester.
>Major
Math
>transfer
Don't know right now, whatever UC gives me a full ride.
But my CSU options are Humboldt, Chico, SDSU and either Sacramento or San Marcos.

>>9081390
>They're gonna want to know about a time that you faced adversity, and you can frame it as a time when you took the reins of leadership for the team.
I cannot do this without at least insinuating my team members are incapable or at the very worst, retarded. And that reflects badly on me as a person because I would come off as an arrogant prick, can't work in teams, judgmental, etc.

>If you can manage it, try attending a career fair and asking other students if you could have a copy of their resumes.

I did this. I also look through stacks of resumes from the more motivated students applying to be part of a research lab I'm affiliated with.

>Employers won't care, and after the application process, even the college doesn't care, so for all intents and purposes, it is not an achievement.

It is a valid comparison metric though, especially considering the average student can't even break 2000. I'm not splitting hairs at the higher end of the scale here between 2200 or 2100, just looking at the broad distribution.

Or maybe, volunteering at a soup kitchen makes one a good engineer and I've overlooked that holistic factor that employers and schools rage about.

In any case, if having a perfect GPA in upper level courses or near perfect standardized test scores or published papers as an undergrad does not qualify anyone at this university, then by that metric you wouldn't believe how underqualified the 90% of the students here, most of whom do not even have any one of those things, are.

>>9072030
>McGill
sup

>>9067286
are you me?

>>9079608
I start UCSD for physics this Fall. I'm a transfer

>>9081466
humboldtanon here
dont come here if you arent a life science major. If you are studying forestry/fisheries/wildlife/etc. it's amazing. there is so much industry up here it's disgusting, you would have to actively TRY to not get a paid internship above minimum wage, that's how plentiful opportunity is up here

getting a math degree here would be pointless if you can go somewhere else. san marcos is good from what i've heard, though.

>>9081752
Oh shoot, thanks anon.

I just wanted to stay away from LA and SF, I think I should research more on CSUs tomorrow.

WHOSE HOUSE?!?

>>9081398
Last (fourth) year of undergrad starting this fall.

>>9072368
im starting in the fall, feeling the same way. they do have a high job placement rate though

hello...anyone else here a r e e d i e
Math here is p nice. (Pls someone help me get into uchicago for graduate school)

>>9066312
ayyy!!! I transferred out.

Fresno City College

I major'd in meth

>ctrl+f "caltech"
>0 results found

unlucky

going into my sophomore year studying CS like a stupid fucking normie

>>9082021

we get it you're chinese

>>9081295
What other schools did you get into and how much in aid did you get? Im gonna do my first two years at CC and transfer out. Umass Amherst is my public of choice but was considering WPI,BU,Northeastern and Tufts also

Hi

Anyone LMU Munich here? Would really like to go there for grad school.

>>9082021
I'm pretty sure there must be some other XTech anons around here.
Expect MIT too.

Make way, brainlets.

>>9072380
Fuck GT, they denied my transfer application over an english composition credit.

>>9081912
Coog's house

I graduated in May, though. Good luck anon we're all gonna make it.

>>9068063

Maybe U of M isn't as shit as I thought it would be