<p>I would call the AT&T store in Providence to find out. Most lay Americans buy their phones from the carriers themselves and never have to think about these things.</p>
<p>Do you know if T-Mobile has good reception on campus? It seems cheaper than AT&T</p>
<p>All the carriers have good coverage maps, check on the T-Mobile website.</p>
<p>It is cheaper than AT&T, however, AT&T has undeniably the best coverage on campus. Also recognize that because we have Wifi everywhere, you won’t necessarily want to pay for 3G service for a phone that doesn’t require it (e.g., an iPhone requires a 3G plan, but another smartphone might not).</p>
<p>I don’t know if you guys would know the answer to this but I’m having a hard time finding it online so I thought I’d ask. Is it possible for someone to be a Brown undergraduate and still take classes online elsewhere to obtain a certificate or degree in something other than their major?</p>
<p>One of my friends became an ordained minister while still at brown. I assume as long as it’s not a bachelor’s degree you could do it</p>
<p>Isn’t becoming a minister online ridiculously easy?</p>
<p>Anyways, you probably can find the time to try something like that… but I’m not sure exactly why? What are you planning on studying in addition?</p>
<p>T-Mobile has fine reception on campus. That is what my son used last year and will continue to use. Also if you get the student advantage card, you can get a good discount on your service.</p>
<p>Just to add to the cell phone carrier debate, I was just fine using Verizon on campus as well. Only problems with service were in the basements of buildings (Wriston, Sayles, Steinart practice rooms, etc).</p>
<p>Verizon gets terrible service in some of the Pembroke dorms. I would ask a Pembroker to confirm.</p>
<p>My friends with Verizon got better service than me (AT&T) in the V-Dub, but that’s likely phone dependent, since I have a cheap phone and they have nice ones…</p>
<p>I had good service with Verizon when I lived on Pembroke freshman year. And my phone wasn’t exactly a work of art.</p>
<p>Also, a lot of people get bad service in the VDub. Half the place is subterranean.</p>
<p>I am remembering a friend on the 3rd floor of W. Andrews whose phone never rang and constantly dropped calls.</p>
<p>I lived in Pembroke last year and did just fine on Verizon. The V-Dub is always bad just because you’re underground.</p>
<p>^ I second this. I’m on AT&T and my reception is atrocious in my lab at the ground floor of Sidney Frank, just across the street from Em-Wool.</p>
<p>^Speaking of Em-Wool, what’s it like to live there? It seems pretty isolated from the main campus.</p>
<p>lol ***? It’s connected to two other dorms and surrounded by freshman housing/</p>
<p>Whats the applied math program like? How rigorous is it, whats a typical schedule</p>
<p>There really isn’t a typical Applied Math schedule. The only required courses are multivariable, linear algebra, and the year-long differential equation sequence. You have the freedom to structure the rest of your program as you see fit. In fact, there seems to be many more combined Applied Math concentrators (with Bio, CS or Econ) than those concentrating purely in Applied Math. </p>
<p>Though one complaint I have is that the course offerings are rather scant for a department of this size.</p>
<p>I liked living in a single in Wooley…but I had an amazingly quiet floor.</p>
<p>I was underwhelmed by the APMA courses I’ve taken and that I’ve helped people with (36, 165, 166), but I keep hearing great things about the department…</p>
<p>I would look at the APMA-Econ concentration requirements (available on the Focal Point tool of the Academics part of the Brown website) to see the types of courses involved. Though it is a relatively focused program, as aleph0 says, it still has good-old-fashioned Open Curriculum flexibility.</p>
<p>Whether it is rigorous is sort of up to your definition. If you mean rigorous as in “challenging”, then I suppose that would depend on your natural skill sets and ability to make economic and mathematical decisions. </p>
<p>If you mean rigorous as in “pursues deep intellectual knowledge” – Applied Math/Econ might not be for you, because it’s inherently an applied and more practical area of study. Most students in the field are likely to enjoy applied research, finance, and the more tangible areas of applications. That said, a number of APMA-Econ students do end up pursuing graduate degrees, and the APMA-Econ program is one of the recommended paths into graduate economics study.</p>