General Chat / What are you doing after high school?

i have been accepted to the university of muskegon community college

they told me i was just what they were looking for

Quincy pride. :]
Where do you live, CoasterForce?
I actually might be going to Massasoit, then transfering. Because I actually AM leaving this godforsaken state in 2008 to live in Florida.

But Florida is even worse.

Duxbury.

I know many a person from q-town.

Deluxebury!

Your high school basketball team knocked my high school basketball team out of the state tournament last year I think. Fun fact.

i will be the first to say i hate almost everyone in my town, but i go to BCH in dorcester. East side, biatches

Ah, a lot of people from there come to St. Michael's. I know at least one failed out after the 1st semester though.

^ lol....the scary thing is, i actually personally know the kid you're talking about, he was in my math class last year and im a year behind him, haha, k-roach

...okay this is too scary/creepy

Edited by CoasterForce, 06 February 2007 - 08:14 PM.

Hahahahaha, brilliant. He was on my intramural soccer team. He whipped a soccer ball at some foreign student and tried to fight him. I don't know why.

Not really on-topic but sorta,

i've been wondering about getting my masters degree in the states, i'm not so far into it that i know my possibilities but i've been told our mathematics here is of high quality compared to there (not so much so for a lot of other disciplines, but that's besides the point) so i hope that my options are somewhat even existant. I think it'd be awesome to study applied mathematics (or something similar, though i couldn't find anything other than (theoretical) mathematics and applied mathematics on the harvard site) in the states. The primary reason would be an even better education, a nicer piece of paper, and the fact that you, apparantly, learn a lot from studying abroad. According to a friend the mathematics courses are ranked in the order, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and California-berkely. To me Harvard says the most intuitively. I wonder what my chances are at these places though, in some time i should have the subjects (their equivalants, at least) to get in but i have no idea how many people want to get in and how high their standards are exactly. (i know it's beyond hard to get in from day one as an american and it costs a shitload of money that hardly anyone can afford, but my situation is different since the state should finance some and i'm not talking about the master but *just* the bachelor. And heck, i'm not from there and that might interest them some. I don't know.

Your friend is probably basing those rankings on USNews Graduate School Rankings (http://www.usnews.co...f/mat_brief.php) which is a great place to start but by no means an absolute. It really all depends on what field of math you want to go into and what schools offer what. And MIT, Ivy-League, Stanford, Berkley, Caltech, and the likes are all going to be extremely competitive for grad school. I would look at some of the top state schools as well besides just Berkley such as UT-Austin, Georgia Tech, and UMichigan: all of which have top grad schools.