So, I'm going to college

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Jaguar
I got accepted to Yale at 4 pm today.

Nicely done Jag!

And doing econ/business although never get the two confused. While they're closer in the US than elsewhere, there's a considerable difference, and since you're good at maths, you'll probably find econ much more satisfying. This is just from personal experience - I'm an econ and management double major who's strongest point at entry was problem-focused maths, and this led to me finding applied economics much more to my taste than business, even though they're quite similar. Thinking of which, that's still my strongest point, as I'm no fan of proofs.

Sadly I probably won't be joining you there next year, with funding fallen through. But it's an awesome school for economics and business (and indeed pretty much anything else, it seems).

If you want to go into business, some econ, some math and a knowledge of how businesses work is so useful - I keep hearing that whenever I talk to grad recruitment people at banks, businesses and financial institutions.

[Kuciwalker]

In other news I'm done with 6 hours of exams today, 3 hours of CS (data structures and algorithms) and 3 of math (numerical methods). They were mercifully easier than I had been expecting.

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
In other news I'm done with 6 hours of exams today, 3 hours of CS (data structures and algorithms) and 3 of math (numerical methods). They were mercifully easier than I had been expecting.

You are a boy genius

[Kuciwalker]

Duh.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Jaguar
I got accepted to Yale at 4 pm today.

Congrats

Now you can work on being a snobbish ivy league graduate who looks down his nose at the rest of us

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Jaguar
I got accepted to Yale at 4 pm today.

So when do you hear about The Skull and Bones society?



Congrats!

[Elok]

And I took the last final I'll ever take (hopefully) about seven hours ago now. I graduate in the spring, but all my courses are done now. I'm graduating from Washington College (not University), but congrats on getting into an institution named after a cool guy. Oh, and I'm an English major, Philosophy minor, FYI.

WRT college tips:

-bring food, or plenty of money to buy food. You will get very sick of the dining hall food, very quickly. I regret not having more canned soup on those days when they're serving something really foul.

-I don't think you'll have the problem I did, but always remember that college, unlike HS, will not hesitate to give you the boot if your grades go too low. I didn't take them seriously my first year. Biiiiiig mistake.

-Many profs are willing to give you latitude on assignments, but you get a lot farther if you don't abuse their kindness.

-Look to see what books you'll need for class, and then buy them online. Avoid buying a book until you have to read it for class, unless the bookstore has 'em in limited supply. I hate it when they tell you "we'll be using this heavily in class," and I rush to buy it for the arm and leg they charge, and then I never even have to open it. Book prices will blow your mind. I paid $200 for my Spanish books, though admittedly I was able to use them for two semesters of classes.

-USB/"thumb" drives are your friends.

-Talk to more experienced students to learn who the problem professors are. Idunno about physics or math, but my school's English faculty, like every school's, contains one guy who thinks everything in every book is a symbol of penises and/or death, and another guy who drones on forever and makes even the greatest stuff sound tepid. When in doubt, pick a class with a young professor over an older one if both are unknown quantities; the young one will be inexperienced at worst, and thus pretty easy to work with, while the old one might well be one of those tenure-holding badgers gripping onto their posts to the death and using them as soapboxes for their crackheaded delusions.

That's all I can think of for now. Plus this post is looking longish.

[Jonny]

Since yours is non-binding, Jag, are you going to look anywhere else, or is Yale definitely it for you?

[Wiglaf]

New Haven
Yale

[Jonny]

Oh, and congrats Jag, of course.

The one person I know of from my class that applied early to Yale got waitlisted... on the other hand, three of my good friends got into Harvard, Brown, and Georgetown, resepctively, so Friday wasn't as bad as it could have been for us. It was certainly good for you.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by Elok
And I took the last final I'll ever take (hopefully) about seven hours ago now. I graduate in the spring, but all my courses are done now. I'm graduating from Washington College (not University), but congrats on getting into an institution named after a cool guy. Oh, and I'm an English major, Philosophy minor, FYI.

WRT college tips:

-bring food, or plenty of money to buy food. You will get very sick of the dining hall food, very quickly. I regret not having more canned soup on those days when they're serving something really foul.

-I don't think you'll have the problem I did, but always remember that college, unlike HS, will not hesitate to give you the boot if your grades go too low. I didn't take them seriously my first year. Biiiiiig mistake.

-Many profs are willing to give you latitude on assignments, but you get a lot farther if you don't abuse their kindness.

-Look to see what books you'll need for class, and then buy them online. Avoid buying a book until you have to read it for class, unless the bookstore has 'em in limited supply. I hate it when they tell you "we'll be using this heavily in class," and I rush to buy it for the arm and leg they charge, and then I never even have to open it. Book prices will blow your mind. I paid $200 for my Spanish books, though admittedly I was able to use them for two semesters of classes.

-USB/"thumb" drives are your friends.

-Talk to more experienced students to learn who the problem professors are. Idunno about physics or math, but my school's English faculty, like every school's, contains one guy who thinks everything in every book is a symbol of penises and/or death, and another guy who drones on forever and makes even the greatest stuff sound tepid. When in doubt, pick a class with a young professor over an older one if both are unknown quantities; the young one will be inexperienced at worst, and thus pretty easy to work with, while the old one might well be one of those tenure-holding badgers gripping onto their posts to the death and using them as soapboxes for their crackheaded delusions.

That's all I can think of for now. Plus this post is looking longish.

I am going to double up with Elok for the
-Waiting to buy books a few classes to see if you really need and
-Talking to more experienced students to learn about professors.
Professor stories go around really fast usually.

[Wiglaf]

https://www.ratemyprofessors.com

[Pekka]

Kuci, so did you enjoy all the sorting algorithms, calcualting complexities, hash tables and trees?

I remember some course on this, man it was the most boring course I ever took I'd rather stay home and stick things up my nose.

[Kuciwalker]

We did compression, game trees, graph algorithms, and a bunch more too. It was a fun class.

[:) Smiley]

Congrats Jag!

Now get them orders in!