/sci/ - Science & Math

In first world.

Does it matter? Will mentioning it contribute to science discussion?

>>9911922
YOUTUBE

>>9911990
based, redpilled, and woke

mimes

>>9911922

Khan Academy, uDemy, and Abram Friedman Occupational Center.

UT AUSTIN
overall for its highest ranking fields and their superiority and the still very good programs in other things legit best university also good weather etc

MENSA

School of Hard Knocks.

NC A&T
dnt@me h8rs

ITT: autofellation.

the real answer for most people on this board is probably some random high school

I don't want to sound like a jealous, salty dick here, but

Why does what school someone gets into matter? Friggin' MIT teaches the same DiffEQ class taught at my state school.
Is it really just clout and prestige once you graduate?

>>9912102
research opportunities and networking

>>9912109
That's understandable.

I went to Cornell for Undergrad. I'm at Duke for grad school.

School names mean nothing though. Plenty of dumb people in big name schools. People who autofellate because they went to Oxbridge or Ivy League are the worst kinds of losers.

>>9911922
UCLA for undergrad, starting MS at CSULB.

>>9912008
Hell yeah, hook 'em! I haven't seen too many UT Austin people on /sci/. What's your major, or field if you're in grad school?

>>9912102
It’s just about social standing. Research might matter but the thing is it applies to business majors and liberal arts as well. It’s the new aristocracy. The subject matter or quality of the classes matters zero. Only the name and who you know. If you work harder or pay more or get lucky or are born into it then you’ll get more of it.

>>9912253
>new aristocracy
>new
pedigree has always mattered.

>>9912102
>>9912253
>>9912265
Pedigree can be established through quality work regardless of institution, but acceptance to a university with stricter admission requirements certainly helps, because conversely those stricter requirements lead to higher rates of success of that institution in producing original and important work.

>>9911922
that picture is a meme. i know a dumb fuck going to colombia. at postgrad its easy to get into ivy league.only undergrads are into that petty shit.

P.E

>>9912102
The difference is research. State U is not going to have the same resources that MIT has for its researchers.

>>9911922
UoB

>>9912288
That was my 2nd choice besides >>9912002

Seemed like a friendly campus community

Boston University

>>9912003
>Abram Friedman Occupational Center.
I know this place.

>>9911922

>>9912422
same here

>>9912151
Why the backwards transition? Should've gone to Berkeley or USC at least?

Im going to UC Berkeley as an undergraduate

>>9911922
Berkeley.

>>9912217

what the fuck anãozinho, I would never imagine another fellow barriga-verde here. You study in Joinville I suppose

>>9911922
JHU. Biology. Pre-Med.

>>9912488
Maybe.

Purdue for Biology. Any grad school suggestions for a brainlet who can't read?

i graduated middle school in 2003 and have not received any degrees since. i go to the junior college and help teenagers study.

usyd

>>9912002
was my second choice to CU Boulder (just got my BSME), was pretty good would recommend especially if you get instate tuition

>>9911922
grad program.

>>9911922
how do LAC's stack up against a lot of these?

somewzhere where i dont need to take a 150 k loan to buy a profs shitty 2000 USD text book

you fucking retards

>>9912139
What did you think of cornell?

This shithole. At least it's free.

>>9912370
Same what school

>>9912443
>>9912432
why is there so many of us in sci? what do u guys think of cal? I'm a prefrosh physics major. do u guys think were at a disadvantage and our quality of education for undergrad is inferior compared to places like mit Caltech etc

>>9912370
>>9913151

BC here, down to drink when the semester starts

>>9912002
>Mines
Memes

>>9911922
I graduated from Penn, right in the middle of your picture. As an undergraduate, it was terrible. Every benefit you need from an Ivy League in terms of connections is there, but the professors, staff, and faculty all treat the undergraduates like shit and all the undergraduate facilities are shit. I get that I should appreciate how impressive the school is more, and I realize they do an incredible amount of research, but the quality of life alone for undergraduates there was terrible.

Anyway, Penn was my school. Class of 2017.

Case Western

>>9911990
>>9912001
Kek

>>9913110
I really really really really didn't like it.

>>9911939
based

Do medicine here, bretty good

>tfw when you didn't accept the offer for university of glasgow

Mizzou

>>9911922
I'm a postdoc at Cal

>>9913702
Ayyyyy.

>>9913070
Qu'est-ce que j'aimerai y entrer seigneur

>>9912102
Undergrad institution literally does not matter. I went to a barely top 100 public university undergrad and I'm at a top 5 program in my field for a PhD. Lets be 100% honest, no one gives a flying fuck what people research undergrad. The other comments saying prestigious programs give you access to better profs/research, sure thats true but no one cares. Admissions boards care that you found a research opportunity at your school, understood your work and stuck with it, not that your PI won a Nobel or a Field's medal.

For graduate school, the prestige of the program is tied to quality of the research, as well as the funding available. The name on the paper absolutely matters as well as the prestige of your PI.

>>9913583
Everyone I've met that goes to Cornell dislikes it ("Shithica" comes up a lot in those conversations). Why does everyone hate it?

>>9911922
University of Stavanger, Norwegian community college, you probably haven't heard of it, it's pretty insignificant and entry level.

>>9911922
itt: undergrads

>>9913070
>*tips bicorne*

>>9912826
same, let's chat
Phrygian4#7419, snap same name

>>9914253
It's just got bad vibes. It's really cold, people are mean, the buildings are ugly, the classes are hard, and there's nothing to do.

At least the Triangle is nice and warm.

>>9914701
mississippi state, go dawgs

>>9914714
Did my PhD there. Starkville's a decent town, dead as hell in the summer, though.

Dalhousie

>>9911922
>Be indian
>watch /all the lectures/ from a random undergrad class from MITOCW on youtube
>Brag about being "educated from MIT" at every possible occasion :^)

>>9915163
literally every undergraduate student knows what MOOCs are

>>9915163
Yeah I understand these people are faggots, but it's still pretty fucking cool to have MOOCs, and the more people talk about it the higher the chance it'll get more finding.

>>9914664
huh, i know who you are actually. But no im not interested in revealing i browse 4chan on RPI internet.

>>9914771
neat, what years were you there? were you in STEM?

>>9915405
I graduated within the last 3 years and, yes, I was in a STEM field.

>>9913436
Praise babs

This piece of shit

>>9911939
Based. Why are we so superior?

Thoughts?
Pretty good IMO

>>9911922
a community college in washington state

did a BS in applied math at UCLA, now doing my doctoral studies in Europe

>>9915673
Ja.
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/facts-and-figures/education/student-population/

>>9915396
You dont know who I am.

>>9911922

>Where do you go to school, /sci/?

Hollywood High School.

And I’m not underage b&, I’m 29 years old and taking adult high school classes at my old high school alongside a bunch of minors. Why call it adult school if they’re just gonna stuff the classes full of minors with a few actual adults? I dunno.

>>9912002
Grug study rocks

Grug Geologist

>>9911922
Ohio State
finance and data analytics

>>9915765
why are you taking hs level classes?

>>9915773

Because I dropped out of high school when I was 17 years old back in 2006. Although I already took the GED exam, passed, and got the high school equivalency certificate back in 2010, a cousin of mine suggested to me that I get the adult high school diploma as well because it apparently looks better on resumes to have both the high school equivalency certificate and adult high school diploma.

CUNT Graduate Center

>>9914223
>I went to a barely top 100 public university undergrad and I'm at a top 5 program in my field for a PhD.
Don't base advice off your PhD in Ancient Laotian Languages

>>9913242
Nah

>>9914223
>I went to a barely top 100 public university undergrad and I'm at a top 5 program in my field for a PhD
From a Meme State University to Ivy League tier Grad School?

>>9913242
>why is there so many of us in sci?
there is a bunch of Mines students here as well. which is strange because its a tiny fucking school.

>>9913600
You irish or british

>>9913070
i want to go here for my masters. i'm american. what should i expect?

>>9911922
I rejected Cambridge for Imperial a week ago.

>>9911922
HA!
Just finished my PhD, fucking hell. Good luck with this, fags, I can safely say this was the most life-draining experience so far, I'm amazed I didn't end up dangling on a rope off a basement ceiling somewhere.

>>9915979
I'm not that poster, but I went from Meme State undergrad to #1 grad school.

>>9915589
holy shit another bitter ivy reject.

Praise be to queen babs

>>9916001
a bunch of douches who think they're hot shit, go to ENS Ulm instead

>>9914199
j'aimerais*
Bah faut peut-être se sortir les doigts du cul, simplet.

Second rate university in a literal who-country

>>9916032
Why?

>>9915746
yes i do, i have you on snapchat already, and know that handle. But im discrete so no worries.

I earned a forestry degree from Sewanee

YSR Baby

>>9916032
why? Cambridge is cheaper and way more prestigious

>>9912292
But U of State might.

>>9916057
Which state? Was it r1, nothing, or something in between? I need since kind of ballpark for quality

>>9914714
How racist is it?
>>9912422
Did you go there to party?
>>9912562
Eyy I've been considering that one. You caring a custom major? Which subject?
>>9912896
They're inherently different. You can get more professor attention, and the professors at LACs car more about students and less about research. I can speak more on this topic if you'd like.
>>9913063
You better be going to Tsinghua, the balsiero institute, ETH or some shit.
>>9913137
Why is it a shithole? And how is it free?
>>9913384
Should have gone to an LAC or at least some small college, or even some college which respects it's undergrads (big state schools fill this last one)
>>9916081
???
>>9913702
Which major? Thoughts about the school? How much are you paying?
>>9915604
What makes it a piece of shit?
>>9915836
Tell us about your field of study and experiences at CUNY
>>9916262
Tell me about the uni. I heard it has an engineering transfer program with Columbia. How much did you pay there?

>>9915836
>>9916421

Maths PhD, 2 years in. As an institution CUNY is fucked, horrible IT and ineffecient bureaucratic bloat. The program itself is pretty solid. Classes have been great, much better than my state school undergrad, and the professors are very accessible. There's also a shitload of seminars every week. It's the least prestigious math program in the city, but we're welcome to attend NYU and Columbia seminars, and it's way cheaper than either of those places

>>9916116
T'inquiètes ;)

My little liberal wasteland

>>9916452
Sounds good, guess you should make the most of those Columbia seminars to network then gtfo!

>>9916384
It's R1, but the only reason you would know it is for football.

>>9916562
Bama? Really, any r1 uni should have good undergrad research opportunities

>>9911939
Considering doing a PhD in theoretical chem there. What is it like anon?

>>9916592
Not Bama, but similar enough. There were ample research opportunities if you were looking for them.

I think I made the right choice going there for undergrad. Many people in my cohort paid >$50k a year to attend ivies, while I attended for a pittance in comparison.

>>9916421
>>9912422
They gave me a decent offer for graduate school. And the stipend is above living cost so I'm pretty comfy. But yeah the partying ain't bad either ;)

>>9916192
What the fuck? Snap me?
Didn't know anyone I have added on snap was a grad student...?

>>9915988
>white as fuck
>engineering
>middle class
>red state
Checks out

>>9916452
Do you think pedigree will fivk you? Also what state undergrad

Collegium Harknockensis

>>9916530
Aye, my man. Fellow boundless husky here, what's your major?

Santa Clara University
Where my bros at?

>>9916623
massively overrated

smart people from 3rd world countries go to ETH, smart people from 1st world countries go to ivy leagues/UK/US

>>9911922

Royal Security Training Academy
Valley Guard Training
Guard Training Center

>>9916934
What's the point of Snapchat?

>>9916934
like i said, id rather not reveal my identity either. Let's just say i work in CBIS

I graduated from Cal. Which I am proud of, but at this point I am torn. The truth is I didn't fulfill UC requirements (got multiple D's in needed classes senior year). I am torn on whether I want Cal to rescind my degree. I think it would be funny. But I do like Cal. It is the best university in the world, even if it has liberal shitheads all over the place.

>>9916934
*Snap*

>>9912550
Same for Bio Engineering. Stick with Purdue. Do PULSE

Does one need a lot of money ? To pay to go there ?

>>9917264
Like per semester.

>>9911922
Fucking kill me brehs.

>>9917312
Osaka must be nice,

>>9917312
Undergrad, grad?
How well do you need to know Japanese (for uni)?

"Most innovative uni" represent

>>9917034
Women to con desperate men into paying them for semi-lewd pictures once a week

>>9916421
>How racist is it?
It isn't. TSUN (Ole Miss) is the one that is racist (ie throwing rope around neck of MLK statue).

>>9917765
>ie throwing rope around neck of MLK statue

"ie" means "equivalent to" or "in other words" or "also known as"

"ex" means example

so you should've used ex not ie

>>9917784
>pointing out a common typo on 4chan
you're a big guy!

>>9917784
He probably meant to use e.g., not i.e. or ex.

>>9912002
I might go here for an advanced degree. Either mines or VTech.

>>9911939
How hard is it to get into the EE MSc program at ETH?

>>9917784
>>9917788
>>9917806
I have taken to these useful definitions
>e.g. = for example
>i.e. = namely

Tennessee. Decent engineering school I’m paid to go to.

Any UIUC engineering bros here?

Is anyone studying econ?

What's it like? What type of job do you expect to get? How math intensive is it?

>>9917892
i.e. does not mean "namely"

>>9917942
Mathfag reporting in. Final year. Aiming for Stats grad. Which engineering?

>>9918060

Trevor?

Went to humboldt state for underegrad. Going to Chapel hill for grad school.

>>9918074
Yes?

please please please let me get into a good gradschool.

>>9917765
Never heard the acronym TSUN be used for ole miss. Good to hear that Bama isn't as bad as I thought.

>>9918098
Oh shit.
Alexa, play "it's a small world"
>>9918125
With no research experience? No way!
>cruising on down ug, you're relaxing feeling good

>>9918229
>no research experience
not sure why you assumed this sweety.

Wondering if I should even bother doing a masters since I'm not doing a PhD

>>9918125
Wait anon im in MSE at the engineering school in New Brunswick

>>9916970
math, graduated 2016

>>9911922
I'm going to Stonehill College. I've checked a few archive sites, I'm the only anon I know of attending Stonehill. The closest other posts I could find about it is a guy in a /b/ thread asking for pics of Stonehill girls and a guy on /lit/ who said that he studied law there several years ago.

>>9918290
probably have walked by you on Busch then. idk what year you are but I might have even been in the same analytical physics lecture as you.

>>9918279
I'm going to apply for a MSc degree in two years.

>>9913070
Why are the French so aesthetic?

Any fellow bluehens btw, I had a horrible time in college, majored in chemistry

>>9911922
No name state school with a 73% acceptance rate. Sometimes I want to die because of my own brainletitis, other times I remember that I make up for it with my work ethic.

>>9918248
Well if you did you wouldn't be worrying about the "good grad school" thing unless you have a unrealistic expectation of "good"

>>9919248
physics is super competitive. Even with 2 years of research experience 3.8+ gpa and near perfect GREs you're not that impressive.

>>9911922
Oregon State University studying Math.

>>9915915
You got me.

>>9915979
Pretty much. My undergrad was an R1 with good research, but they also accepted everyone with a pulse from my home state. My cohort has some others from low tier undergrads.The bulk are from top tier schools but my point is you can stand out no matter where you are. The students at Harvard/Columbia/Yale/Berkeley are probably just more intense going in so they're more intense coming out.

Not technically a school but whatever

>>9919277
>he fell for the "GRE scores matter" meme
No school uses the GRE as anything other than a baseline for auto-rejecting retards.
If you get into MIT with 99th percentile tests you would have got in at 85th too.

>>9919432
this, GRE is least important part of a grad school app. letter of rec is usually most important

>>9917188
Have you met me in real life? If so, you're certainly confused.

>>9917339
it is quite nice!
>>9917392
undergrad, you need to be almost fluent, obviously. You're taking classes in japanese.


But yeah I only came here because im on a full ride not really worth it otherwise

>>9919743
Did you get a MEXT ? If so how hard was it ?
I'm considering studying in weabooland

Texas A&M

>>9911922
why is it present tense though? like 90% of 4chan is either too young/too old for college.

>>9911922
At the gym

Berkeleu here.
Not only are we a good school with good reputation, but we're also not pussy ass bitches who gives medals to everyone who tries.
I have a 4.0 after 2 semesters and one summer of straight upper divs, 7 math classes. At an ivy, that means nothing. At berkeley, that's not so easy.
I'm surprised at the number of calanons here. Has anyone ever held a berkeley /sci/ meetup?

>>9919813
>Has anyone ever held a berkeley /sci/ meetup?
So Atifa can bash your skulls open? I have other plans, friends.

>>9919766
Yes, it was really hard. Especially for me, as you know it's a program that only chooses 80 people from around the world (around 25000 apply every year)
I come from a shitty ass third world country where high school education is shit, and if I hadnt gone to math phys and chem olympics when I was younger I wouldnt know shit. So I basically studied by myself around 10-12 hs everyday for half a year and went to have the tests and aced them all and no one else besides me passed in my country.

You can google or youtube how to get the mext scholarship, I did a youtube video but I dont wanna post the link.

Btw if you're a weaboo don't come, you will end up killing yourself when you find out it's not what you expect. I honestly just came for the money I dont give a fuck about the shitty culture.

>>9917904
Ditto, but for Physics

>>9919777
Which major? What's your opinion on the ridiculous amounts of school pride?

UTN FRBA

>>9917289
Ivy is like 60k yearly

I don't really know.

Stevens Institute of Technology. We invented the Gantt Chart(project management tool the basis of Microsoft project software) and that's pretty much our only accomplishment.

fucking Evergreen State College
This is an open invitation for anyone to come assassinate me

>>9919277
what is impressive in physics then? Give a realistic scenario please?
I'm not being passive aggressive just genuinely curious

>>9920563
I don't know what that guy's experience is but looking at people I knew during undergrad, most who went on to do PhDs (most of them at great or top institutions) had good grades, some research experience (less than two years; it was mostly a final year project and some summer stuff) and that's about it. The ones who went to the US also did the GRE, and as far as I know they did pretty well. Quite a few of these guys also had non-academic achievements, but I don't think that factored in much.

>>9920574
So the dude was memeing me?
What a fucking moron


>>9920042
I bet my left nut that you are either from Peru or Brasil.

The biggest uni in the U.S. thus the widest spectrum of intelligence ranging from pretty smart to the biggest dipshits I've seen

>>9911922
I'm a Mech. E major at Cal State Polytechnic in Pomona
>there are no broncos ITT
Sad!

Sup

>>9920563
any prestigious scholarship. Also coauthoring papers is god tier but obviously most people cant do that.

>>9917201
>I graduated from Cal
Which one?

>>9920579
>So the dude was memeing me?
Maybe his experiences have been different, it could be he or someone he knows has been rejected from several places despite seemingly ticking the boxes.

It does happen. I don't think physics is hypercompetitive, but to get a PhD studentship you usually need to convince someone that you have the interest and capacity to do the work they need you to do, and that isn't necessarily achieved by just having decent grades.

>>9920574
I'm a math PhD student at a good school (not absolutely top-tier, but good, especially in my field) and I can say this is a pretty accurate picture of almost all the students here as well.
3.5+ GPA, 1-2 years of either a bachelor's thesis or a toy project under the supervision of a prof is a normal and perfectly sufficient application. Nobody even cares enough about GRE scores to mention them, they're basically a bureaucratic formality.
Obviously there is some variation around this (some people have more experience like REUs in undergrad and stuff like that, some people have very minimal research experience or a slightly lower GPA, some people got a nonzero score on the Putnam once or twice, etc.) but people meme up the quality of your average grad school applicant a LOT.

>>9920625
Hey I went to Cal Poly for undergrad two years ago. Currently doing PhD in the Midwest

Are they still building/doing construction in front of the CLA building? Is parking still a fucking nightmare every beginning of the quarter? J-lot is best lot

>>9920694
>Are they still building/doing construction in front of the CLA building? Is parking still a fucking nightmare every beginning of the quarter?
Yes and yes, they just switched to a semester system tho.

>>9911922
You forgot number 1
Cambridge
which also happens to be where I go

>>9912422
is it me or does it say Libety instead of liberty on the logo.

>>9916032
>Cambri
Retard. I would have said that i would have liked meeting you at Cam, but not so sure anymore.

>>9921097
I, on the other hand, have no desire to meet people like you here or elsewhere.

t. >>9920444

>>9921089
It's clearly a US image.

In any case, Cambridge isn't #1 by any ranking, except by miraculous coincidence maybe by the one that's British.

>>9920647
Cal is UC Berkeley.

>>9921093
It does. The one on the licensing website has the correct spelling.

https://licensing.psu.edu/sites/licensing/files/art_sheet_11.6.2017.pdf

>>9921120
>t. >>9920444
You can't just say that when you rejected them. Stay at your lowly imperial, faggot.

>>9911922
Can I do a Masters in math if I have a undergraduate degree in computer science even if I didn't cover many math units?

>>9921171
yes

>>9921097
Imperial pays me 20k+ Britbong dollaridoos per year to do this PhD while Cambridge told me I'd have funding but then dragged their feet and didn't give it in the end. I mean, at least I had tuition covered but still, the brand name difference is not worth 60k GBP. Don't regret it one bit, though i must admit the city looked comfy af when I visited while it was snowing this winter.

>>9921172
that's great new i've been working on revising my calculus and working towards diff equations, analysis and topology.

I realize that I won't be able to apply to top tier schools but I am happy if I can get to a <100 ranked school. Do you think my odds are high of being accepted?

>>9921174
oh, you're doing phd. I thought you were an undergradfag like me. Sorry in this case. I hope you have a wonderful time at Imperial.

>>9921179
Don't really listen to me. I have no idea.
Do apply to a top tier school. The only 100% way to not get accepted is by not applying.

>>9921161
Thanks, I never noticed lol

>>9921174
I only get like 15k per year in Cam. I guess accommodation is cheaper here than London but it still isn't exactly cheap.

It'll do but I won't have money to spare. Trying to get some additional funding externally so I can eat people food but shit's not really working out.

>>9921167
I wasn't the dude from Imperial, I'm at Cam but I just wanted to say I don't much care for people who call others retarded online for going to a different uni.

>>9916952
>red state

>>9921174
>>9921199
I got into two separate groups for a PhD at Cambridge, but they both had barely any funding for American students. I knew another person who was in a similar boat, and we both were forced to decline.

It's crazy to me how departments at MIT and Stanford can afford to fly out international prospectives for a visit weekend, while Cambridge can't even afford to pay their students a living wage.

>>9921199
The college I was allocated to had relatively cheap rooms to be honest, like 7k for a large ensuite. The remaining 7-8k would be enough for eating every day at the college cafeteria I was told by the current students at the lab, especially if taking on TAing work. Though it was offputting that they had told me I'd pay for conference travel myself there, which is covered at Imperial. Anyway, I think the 15k goes a longer way in Cambridge for sure - London is a crazy place.

Either way, I think academics' salaries are pitiful so I'll make the jump to a lucrative tech/finance career asap after getting this PhD I guess.

>>9921210
I have an acquaintance doing a PhD at Stanford on a 30k stipend and he says following the Trump tax reform which made tuition fee relief count as taxable income he lives quite on the edge. Only place I know people doing PhDs live well is ETH Zürich. It was my first choice actually, but got rejected.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

>>9921224
Your info's outdated, that part of the tax bill was removed. I make $41k without a fellowship in an expensive city and I live pretty comfortably.

>>9921225
which major?

>>9921224
>>9921229

What this anon said. Last fall a lot of us American PhD students were shitting bricks because of the proposed tax. Thankfully it didn't go through. STEM lives quite comfortably in the US, that is you don't have expensive tastes or manage yourself well.

>>9921238
>>9921229
Oh that is good, haven't talked to this person in a while so it seems I was misinformed.

>>9921232
Cuckold Studies

>>9921251
xd

>>9921253
Go back to /pol/

>>9921255
what

the most based uni in all of Argentina

>>9911922
Add Purdue to the OP

>>9912217
Wtf anon if you are on my class I will be surprised

>>9921272
Is not the best UBA?

>>9921278
fuck no

>>9920042
>shitty culture

Is Japan that bad? Mext looks interesting. Is it very hard to be accepted?

UAEH

>>9920394
chem

i'm not involved in the school culture much but it's cute to watch from the sidelines, go aggies!

>>9912008
Would you recommend the math PhD program there?
I'm an undergrad at Berkeley, and I'd like to live somewhere outside of literally Asia.

>>9911939
Let me guess. You're majoring in cryptology.

pornhub

Santa Clara University

>>9921416
Only because they lobby in every survey/ranking ngo/whatever.

Most of their research falls into the publish or perish meme, so its really mundane nowadays. They need urgently an overhaul but it's hard to do so with all the Marxists in their govt/faculties.

>>9916378
Kek, between UC Berkeley, UCLA, UMich, UIUC, UW Madison, UT Austin, America sure does have banger state research universities for practically jack shit tuition wise if you're in state.
Ivy's btfo.

>>9911922
Los Angeles Pierce College
I'm a brainlet that goes to CC in California

>>9917942
>>9918060
Berkeley math undergrad fag here, can you boys tell me about the math department / PhD program at UIUC, as well as the life/weather there (particularly in the winter)? I'm not averse to cold temps despite being a Cali fag (I'm white and I also lived in Paris for a few years back in 2012ish as a high schooler back when it used to snow there), but I hear that Midwestern winters are something else. My neighbor who grew up in Ann Arbor said the winters there were very long and absolutely brutal.
UIUC, UMich and UW Madison are all on my radar as they're top 20 math grad schools, and they seem possible to get into from a Berkeley undergrad. I'd appreciate any input from STEM PhD's there.

engineeringfag here, does it really matter as an UG what university I go to?

>>9918089
>Going to Chapel hill for grad school.
how is it?

>>9921662
yes. pedigree matters.

>>9921597
Lol Berkeley. Why not take advantage of the all that asian pussy m8 ?

seoul university

>>9921692
Post Korean cuties anon. Hows it like? You see a lot of fake boobies on campus?

>>9914253

>Everyone I've met dislikes it

What? I am physics undergrad there. Literally I know one single person who doesn't like it there, but she's a total fucking idiot.

IMO its the perfect place:

-It's fucking cold and snowy all the time
-It's pretty rural. The campus is well incorporated into the landscape which makes for a really beautiful setting
-Physics and math are very rigorous and challenging, actually useful material
-Beautiful architecture (IGNORING North Campus. Seriously... what the fuck)

These are all personal things, obviously, but that's why people go different places to begin with. Don't come here if you don't like the cold. Don't come here if you want easy classes where you can just dick off in your dorm instead of going to lecture. Don't come here if you aren't passionate about something. Don't come here if you're a stupid city fuck who doesn't know how to survive when you aren't <10 m from a club, supermarket, laundromat, and whatever-the-fuck-else all at once.

There's nothing wrong with hating the cold, hating needing to do work to do well in your classes (...eh), hating being in a rural environment, etc. But it's not the University's fault that you chose to go there despite those things. It doesn't make it a bad place because many people can't handle the environment.

>>9914701

The people are mean? What? It doesn't even make sense for a university's entire student body to be "mean". Does this seriously need to be explained? Everywhere has mean people. Everywhere has nice people.

>>9912151
Hey Ryan

>>9921692
Enjoy un(der)employment

>>9921692
Enjoy unemployment

>>9921666
Who dat

>>9921632
Math here is fantastic. We've got great professors here. If you're heavy into research we've got the Illinois Geometry Lab which is the undergrad gateway into math research. The grads work in conjunction with the professors to lead the research team. They also do a lot of outreach if you're into that.
We're losing one of our professors here but she got a position I believe for Purdue--the classes she taught were all on finance mainly for actuaries.
There's also Matrix which helps connect undergrads with faculty. They do some pretty interesting stuff but from the few meetings I've gone there it seemed to be a bit too laid back for my taste. There's also a few math crossover RSO's on campus. Too many to name though. I know one of them does math and genetics.
As for our department building, it's pretty to look at from the outside. But the inside doesn't do it justice. It's old. They're trying to get funds to make it feel more modern while preserving the structure. The basement is pretty comfy. They've got big rooms meant for studying there with big tables. If it makes a difference, I haven't seen a whiteboard in there. But if you prefer one I recommend going to Siebel.
Other than that, from what I've been told about math grad life, it's basically you take the classes that interest you while working on whatever your thesis is. There's breathing room for stuff outside your field. If you really wanna get into the applied side of things talk to Professor Richard Sowers. And in the case that I'm lying, and she does not leave the university, Professor Jing Wang knows a lot of actuary/financial stuff so talk to her if that interests you.
All I can really offer you is what I see from an undergrad perspective and can speak from second hand about the grad perspective. Hope it helps.
As for weather, yeah it kinda does get rough I think. The cold bites sometimes. Just bundle up and you should be fine. I knew a guy from Hawaii who just had a scarf and a jacket going out.

>>9921632
And as for life at U of I, it's quaint. That's really the best way to describe it. You've got bars where people just like to go to party on the main street near campus. And then you've got metro area bars that are more suited for just drinking and chilling. There's a Binny's nearby and an Aldi's, Wal-Mart, Meijer so you're pretty much set for groceries. If you really feel lazy, you can pay the premium for County Market which is really close to campus.
We've got a farmer's market in Urbana near one of the malls with niche shops. If you play Magic, D&D or any tabletop there's Gopher Gaming at that mall for that kind of stuff.
As for road trips you have Chicago, Indianapolis, and Wisconsin nearby to name a few. So even though you're in the middle of corn you have easy access to urban areas if you really need it.
As for campus activities it's got a lot of life. There's an RSO/club for whatever you can think of. You get movies each month shown at our main Union building. We got T-Pain to perform here last semester. Krannert center attracts a lot of the finer arts if you're into that. There's an arboretum South East which is super comfy if you like that stuff. If you don't have a car then public transportation system isn't too bad to navigate. Just takes a bit of getting used to.
It's a big school so you're bound to meet people outside your department pretty frequently. It keeps things interesting. Hope you enjoy it if you do indeed end up coming here for graduate school.
As an aside, you do end up saving more usually if you buy a house here and live in it for 4 years as opposed to renting for 4 years.

>>9921224
So the dude just studied hard for like 10 fucking years (UG + high school), is like top 0.1% intellectually speaking, gets accepted at a top school and get subhuman tier stipend?
Phd is a fucking meme

>>9911922
:^)

I GO TO JMU BABY. JAY MADDY BRO LETS GO DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKES.

>>9921287
I highly doubt that. I'm not in the designated STEM campus.
Here's a challenge, though:
Next year I'll be at least the runner up in some sport at JIUDESC (I'm pretty confident I'll be the champion, but let's keep at that just to be sure). If you manage to contact me after the event, I'll give you 100 banana bucks. Let me know if you accept the challenge or not.

>>9920394
Not him but wildlife science. Best cult I ever joined.

Surprised to be first Russian in the thread, don't see any economists here also.

>>9921599
dae le ethereum

>>9922479
Welcome to academia, enjoy your stay.

>>9922633
That makes 2 of us, I guess. Economists, I mean.

>>9922633
Economic forecasting doesnt work, its just a quackery, prove me wrong.

>>9912002
never thought i'd see a fellow mime here. what department?

>>9922844
mechE

>>9911922
>tfw temple university :U

>>9922901
physics here

Nottingham uni

I regret not going to a more prestigious uni so much, although I really like the experience here. Grew up in a shithole with abusive single mum so had no confidence and it was the most prestigious place I applied to. In the end I got A*A*A* which was easily top at my school (expected this at application time).

Going to apply to "mast physics" (4th year of natural sciences physics for external students) at Cambridge next year after I finish my 3 year bsc.

>>9912002
top kek when I toured there there were fucking larpers running around with swords n sheeit

>>9922954
that's the HEMA club. It's unfortunately more popular than our actual fencing club.

>>9922954
Dude. CSM is literally a Meme school. You’ll see dank Pepe posters and wojaks around campus. Reddit af tbqh

>>9914308
Never thought i'd see anyone from UiS on /sci/. What do you study? EE for me.

From this September

>>9923005
what? I've never seen pepes or wojaks. Don't make shit up

>>9911922
>Penn on the same image as ivy league schools and MIT
Kek, their only claim to fame is that kiddy diddling thing.

>>9923147
Penn is in the ivy league moron, you're thinking of Penn State.

who else here is /retarded/?

>>9916138
Good luck with the shitstorm that Tampere3 will be
t. Aalto

>>9912288
lmao soccorro

enjoy your suicide, diarrhea and bad internet

>>9922186
>>9922216
Thanks man, I and other undergrad anons will certainly appreciate your walls of text. Where are you gonna be applying for your stats PhD? I can tell you about Berkeley if you're considering that.

De Universiteit van Amsterdam, makkers

help

>>9923141
i'm not making shit up. the last E-days thing they had when i was attending, there were a bunch of Pepe memes in chalk all over campus advertising for it. i wish i had taken a picture, it was cringey.

>>9923406
I never saw any of those, but I don’t doubt it

>>9923385
year/major anon? i may be TAing you this fall if you're in chem/bio

>>9923175
>>9923147
>tfw you get recognized more than the in state Ivy League

Penn State baby, we going to the college championship playoffs this year.

>>9923180
UV Law. Studied math for undergrad.

New Jersey Institute of Technology!!!! Represent yo.

>>9921421
You got something you want to say, punk?

>>9923483
New Jersey Beanertute of Technology.

>>9923504
>New Jersey

That is...so...amazingly clever mate.

>>9923511
Nice 56% response

i go to CSUN and will be trying to go to UCR for grad school

>>9921627
Remember to recheck that your credits transfer

>>9922216
Buying a house? As a fresh grad?

>>9921665
To an extent. No point going to a good uni if you don't know how to use the resources.

>>9922903
How is it? Which major? I'm getting marketing material from it do I'm wondering if I can manage socially without joining a frat or drinking.

>>9923180
What's so bad about Virginia? I heard it was super selective and a good school, up there with mich, UNC, and u Chicago

>>9923691
CONDO
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>>9923699
Everything about it is terrible my guy, the campus is fugly, so many nogs, decrepit professors who still take Freud seriously... wanna rip my hair out every time I go there.

Right now I'm in (((journalism))) but I am seriously considering biology as an escape from the poz. You could definitely manage socially without joining a frat tho, I'm entering my junior year and don't even know anyone who's IN a frat.

>>9922582
>Greek uni
>economics

>>9923702
the only reason we are ranked well is because we have good departments in meme subjects like english, sociology, economics, politics, etc.

>>9923496
Choo choo, hello fellow Hoosier. I went to Wabash down the road.

>>9923483
Hey U'm Wolkin' ere!

>>9923715
Hopefully stem is better.

>>9920639
My friend goes there, total brainlet

>>9923730
Ouzo and tax evasion are old greek traditions

>>9911922
Chemistry undergrad @ Duke rn. I got into UCBerk and Cornell, but I chose Duke. Still mad I got rejected from MIT

>>9923180
I'm >>9922592

Enjoy your shantytown and dilapidated housing.

>>9924288
U Virginia is a better uni than jmu

>>9924333

There are too many americans on this board wtf

>>9924362
It's an American website, what did you expect? Other counties have their respective imageboards.

>>9924384

>>9924355
literally everybody at jmu is trying to transfer here

>>9924652
I'm not, therefore not everyone wants to transfer.
Checkmate libtard.