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Undergrad Life (page 2)
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Program Undergrad Life

By Anonymous Hero
Posted Thu Jan 26, 2006 at 07:39:06 PM PDT
Hi I am considering applying to the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program - has anyone heard about how hard/easy it is to get accepted - do you have the be the next Fermat or Gauss to be confident in your chances? Also, has anyone found this program to be of significant value on grad school applications and such? Just curious - information on this seems to be very hard to come by. Any info would be appreciated.

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Math Conference Just For Undergraduates Undergrad Life

By Iluveisensteinscriterion
Posted Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 06:46:28 AM PDT
Below is some information on an undergraduate math conference. This is a great experience for undergrads to get their feet wet in the never ending world of research and presentations. And even better, not only I am presenting, but I get to help organize this year.

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Requesting Letters of Recommendation Undergrad Life

By halewis
Posted Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 06:19:40 AM PDT
I have recently had several students ask me to write letters of recommendation for them, a task I often enjoy. Some of these recent requests, however, were presented in such a clear and organized manner that I wanted to capitalize on their hard work by summarizing steps that students can take to make the experience as easy and pleasant as possible.

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Math and the Computer Science Major Undergrad Life

By Anonymous Hero
Posted Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 06:33:52 AM PDT
Computer science majors tend to struggle for reasons that have very little to do with computers. More often than not, such struggles are rooted in weaknesses related to math. If you plan on getting a CS degree, you need to come to grips with one important fact first: computer science has more to do with math than computers.

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Reflections on REUs Undergrad Life

By overconvergent
Posted Sat Aug 20, 2005 at 05:42:33 PM PDT
Many of my colleagues have been involved in REUs over the years; I have been working with students too this summer. In this note I'll collect a few of my thoughts on them.

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Choosing a grad school Undergrad Life

By brianbirgen
Posted Sun Jul 17, 2005 at 07:42:56 AM PDT
Here's a link to an article by Horizons magazine from long ago on choosing a graduate school.
http://www.maa.org/students/choose_gradsch.html
What actually brought this up was a discussion about what were good questions ask about a grad school when you were on a campus visit. A list of some such questions is available at Sarah Marie Belcastro's website:
http://cerebro.cs.xu.edu/~smbelcas/grad_school_qs.pdf
Perhaps it might be helpful to contribute some other questions worth asking while on a visit to a potential graduate school.

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America Undergrad Life

By icicle
Posted Tue Jul 05, 2005 at 09:00:20 PM PDT
Hi, I am currently a maths student in doing the part III(extra 4th year) at cambridge uni and am wondering whether to apply for phd's in america. My first question is: It seems at least some elements of most phd's in america are taught?Is this true. Secondly:Does anyone know how likely is it that I could get funding? Thanks for any advise/explanations, icicle

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Math Scholarships? Undergrad Life

By Vanes63
Posted Mon May 09, 2005 at 02:03:37 AM PDT
I bet we've all heard there is a lot of money for those going into mathematics...

Have you seen it?  

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Undergrad Life

Thursday January 26th
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Program (4 comments)

Monday January 23rd
Math Conference Just For Undergraduates (3 comments)

Monday January 9th
Requesting Letters of Recommendation (1 comments)

Tuesday November 15th
Math and the Computer Science Major (1 comments)

Saturday August 20th
Reflections on REUs (0 comments)

Sunday July 17th
Choosing a grad school (0 comments)

Tuesday July 5th
America (2 comments)

Monday May 9th
Math Scholarships? (2 comments)

Monday May 2nd
Funding for Graduate School (0 comments)

Wednesday February 23rd
Pi Day Coming Up Once Again (2 comments)

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