@infinitesimal Did you read what they wrote about self pity in the Eng room? Hehe, when I talk about how bad I feel, they often tell me not to self pity. I won't talk to them anymore. They don't get me at all.
@ABeautifulMind I've struggled with depression, anxiety, and OCD for most of my life, but I don't have it anywhere as bad as you do. I wish you the best with your recovery
@teadawg1337 You too. I hope you get better to the point where it doesn't affect your studies.
@Chris'ssis I did go out a few times the past few weeks, and I will feel better for a while, but sometimes it will get worse again, it is like a roller coaster!
@ABeautifulMind Some time ago, someone from a Pentecostal church prayed for me and I was healed. You might try the faith way. Don't worry about what the scientifical mind tells you. The healing is more important than that.
This may sound like a silly question, but I'm having a bit of confusion.
I'm not sure what to say. I work remotely and I am a member of a team on the opposite side of the earth. On the chat, when they say “good morning” or “good night”, I get confused about what I should reply because when they...
Suppose we have $\cup, \cap$ defined as binary operations on "subsets" of some set $S$, where "subsets" can be something exotic like substrings of a string. Suppose also that they satisfy analogous axioms for defining a topology on $S$.
Then I think the structure could be called a semiring as...
ah, I'm sorry. As Mike and I have said, I don't understand the game these days. One of my star students is in at Wisconsin, Colorado, out at Berkeley, UCLA, but StonyBrook says maybe. I just don't get it.
I don't know if Brown thinks it is what it was in the 80s ... or not.
Yeah, and my student had a letter from me (four courses his sophomore year, and adviser) rather than from a guy he took a grad course from, just because I knew the latter guy has no clue how to write a decent letter. He did have one (strong) letter from a guy he took a different grad course from.
If you feel comfortable sharing (I don't know if there's a way to send private messages), what's the name of your student? I can say hello to him at Wisconsin's day, if he's going.
Sometimes it's better to go to a smaller school where one will get more attention and thereby do better. But I'm not sure it worked out that way for you, mr eyeglasses.
Columbia is tough, yes.
You wouldn't like most of my problem sets, either, mr eyeglasses :D
I taught a high schooler who did the same thing. He took 5 classes from me and took several grad courses before going to MIT. Finished his Ph.D. at Princeton and is now unemployed (quite a job with a hedge fund, which he hated).
@TedShifrin One of my professors had a student who begged him to be his advisor, and the student did his own thesis without ever speaking to my professor again..he finished his PhD and then went on to work at a hedge fund lol
I have no idea why he begged the prof. to be his advisor when he didn't even work with him
Oh, he's doing fine, @AlexW. I just spent several hours talking to him a few weeks ago. He is one of the smartest people I know. He just needs to find a job that'll make him feel fulfilled (perhaps not too easy), but he doesn't want academia.
Well he got into Berkeley and UChicago and some other great schools, but he was already doing research with a professor here, so he just stayed at CUNY to continue it
Well, mr eyeglasses, no, most high-schoolers know nothing. A few of them on here are exceptional. But, on the other hand, we have people graduating with math degrees who are woefully ignorant ... others who are fantastic. I honestly don't know where you stand.
Once you get to a real college, @teadawg, I suspect your serious math teachers will figure it out. For grad school, it's about the GRE and letters of recommendation ... and take the most advanced courses you can.
@teadawg: Once you get to classes where homework isn't busywork, change that. In my more advanced classes, the homework is super challenging, and tests are more routine (well, by my standards).
@AlexW: Bryan says he's looking forward to meeting you :)
@AlexWertheim: You're out of time, you should just send that email :) (And send me your phone number while I'm at it, so I can bug you while you're here)
But just, know what you're up against when you take this test. Many don't study for it, to their own detriment. If you're indeed quite smart (which I have no doubt you are), it's not worth being surprised, is all. :)
The subject test is about 50% calculus (multivariable included), 25% linear/abstract algebra, and the rest, elementary probability, complex analysis, topology and logic.
@ᴇʏᴇs: you can do quite well without knowing any of the obscure topics.
The more questions you can answer, the better of course. But most years, if you can answer ~55 questions with confidence, you'll be in excellent shape.
Aw @teadawg, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings if I did before. I was only trying to give some (to be fair, unsocilited) advice, since the subject test can be a rough go for a lot of folks. Take care!
Suppose we have $\cup, \cap$ defined as binary operations on "subsets" of some set $S$, where "subsets" can be something exotic like substrings of a string. Suppose also that they satisfy analogous axioms for defining a topology on $S$.
Then I think the structure could be called a semiring as...
