Harvard to cancel tuition for families

Moogy

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Well, he’s largely avoided all the poop and homophobic references here … but he’s quickly devolving into random noise guy, so he’s 1/3rd of the way toward full devolution. Though, on 2nd thought … random noises usually follows a further breakdown from his “normal” poop/homophobe stuff, so maybe he just skipped those steps here.
 

LionJim

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He's a math professor, dumas.
Harvard’s MAT 55 is a fiendishly difficult course (because of the expectations and the pace) but it’s still undergraduate content. Every math PhD knows this stuff inside out. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have a PhD.

Among programs, the content for specific courses is more or less the same. We use the same books, you get the idea. The difference between programs are 1) how hard are the qualifying exams, and 2) how demanding is your advisor. But the stuff in Harvard’s MAT 55 is covered in every qualifying exam from every program, I can assure you.

The grades you get in your courses absolutely don’t matter in the here and now. You can get straight As in your courses but if you choke on the qualifying exams, tough toenails.
 

LionJim

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Harvard’s MAT 55 is a fiendishly difficult course (because of the expectations and the pace) but it’s still undergraduate content. Every math PhD knows this stuff inside out. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have a PhD.

Among programs, the content for specific courses is more or less the same. We use the same books, you get the idea. The difference between programs are 1) how hard are the qualifying exams, and 2) how demanding is your advisor. But the stuff in Harvard’s MAT 55 is covered in every qualifying exam from every program, I can assure you.

The grades you get in your courses absolutely don’t matter in the here and now. You can get straight As in your courses but if you choke on the qualifying exams, tough toenails.
The washout rate at Maryland was 50%, meaning 50% failed the qualifying exams. I found myself in a situation where either I passed my final qualifying exam (in complex analysis, my weakest subject) or I get kicked out of the program. I’ve mentioned that my mom died when I was ten, and my dad was left widowed with five kids, one of them me, deaf. He had a real hard time, Dad did. Anyway, true story: I’m taking my last qualifying exam and I’m on my last problem and I know that either I prove this problem or I’m out of the program. Time’s winding down, less than five minutes. It’s just me and the proctor left in the room. I’m stuck, starting to panic. I tell myself, “I’ve got to do this for my father.” And out of nowhere I think of a cute proof that saves my ***.
 

Moogy

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Harvard’s MAT 55 is a fiendishly difficult course (because of the expectations and the pace) but it’s still undergraduate content. Every math PhD knows this stuff inside out. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have a PhD.

Among programs, the content for specific courses is more or less the same. We use the same books, you get the idea. The difference between programs are 1) how hard are the qualifying exams, and 2) how demanding is your advisor. But the stuff in Harvard’s MAT 55 is covered in every qualifying exam from every program, I can assure you.

The grades you get in your courses absolutely don’t matter in the here and now. You can get straight As in your courses but if you choke on the qualifying exams, tough toenails.

Bliizzzz ... at!

I just channeled my inner Jumba.

My son, who will be taking AP Calc BC next year as a HS Sr, was looking for help and asked me some math question earlier this year and, rather than embarrass myself by trying to answer, I just said "shut up, jerk! don't talk to me like that!" I showed him who was boss. Pretty sure that would work on the qualifying exams, too.
 
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JohnJumba

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The washout rate at Maryland was 50%, meaning 50% failed the qualifying exams. I found myself in a situation where either I passed my final qualifying exam (in complex analysis, my weakest subject) or I get kicked out of the program. I’ve mentioned that my mom died when I was ten, and my dad was left widowed with five kids, one of them me, deaf. He had a real hard time, Dad did. Anyway, true story: I’m taking my last qualifying exam and I’m on my last problem and I know that either I prove this problem or I’m out of the program. Time’s winding down, less than five minutes. It’s just me and the proctor left in the room. I’m stuck, starting to panic. I tell myself, “I’ve got to do this for my father.” And out of nowhere I think of a cute proof that saves my ***.
And then you farted.
 

BobPSU92

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The washout rate at Maryland was 50%, meaning 50% failed the qualifying exams. I found myself in a situation where either I passed my final qualifying exam (in complex analysis, my weakest subject) or I get kicked out of the program. I’ve mentioned that my mom died when I was ten, and my dad was left widowed with five kids, one of them me, deaf. He had a real hard time, Dad did. Anyway, true story: I’m taking my last qualifying exam and I’m on my last problem and I know that either I prove this problem or I’m out of the program. Time’s winding down, less than five minutes. It’s just me and the proctor left in the room. I’m stuck, starting to panic. I tell myself, “I’ve got to do this for my father.” And out of nowhere I think of a cute proof that saves my ***.

Well done. Cool under pressure. Can’t teach that.
 
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