Brag a bit!
I’m happy that I just got a 92 on a material balances test I really, really needed to do well on. Plus I don’t have much homework this weekend and can REEEEELAX.
What about you? Grades, clubs, sports, just general awesomeness?
I’m happy that for once, the linear algebra homework doesn’t contain any stumping problems :)>-
'Grats on the test!
I found out I scored 11/120 on the Putnam.
Also CPW!
@CharlotteLetter Love that feeling, when the universe seems to be cutting you a bit of a break! Good luck with the hw!
@MITer94 That’s the one where people are lucky to score any points at all, right? Congrats!! What’s it like?
@bodangles I guess…the median score is typically 0 or 1, but if you solve one question and justify it well you can get 10 points. I was hoping for 20 but one of my solutions was slightly sketchy. I was also being really dumb on a different problem.
Putnam is a lot like HS olympiad math, except you have less time (on average, 30 min/problem as compared to 90 min/problem), and calculus and linear algebra frequently show up instead of geometry.
@MITer94 That sounds super challenging, good job! I haven’t entered any math competitions yet, but I hope I can do Putnam once I’m a regular undergraduate 
@CharlotteLetter thanks!
Putnam was never something I took that seriously but it’s still pretty fun regardless.
Happy:
- My good friend just turned 21, so tonight I finally get to take her out to the bars. I live in a college town so the bar scene is awesome.
- I discovered that many of the best masters programs in a field I’m interested in accept around 50-70% of applicants. Currently the post graduate employment prospects and salaries are excellent for this discipline.
- My apartment’s maintenance is top notch. I put in a low priority request this morning and it was completed three hours later.
- The new edition of the Economist came out today.
Brags:
- I accepted an internship in Denver, one of my favorite cities in the US, and found an amazing place to live that’s $150/ month under my budget (I checked with the apartment company, it’s not a scam).
- I’m going to start researching for a professor next week. This research will almost certainly affect the lives of tens of thousands of people in my state.
- ArcGIS, a mapping program notorious for freezing, didn’t crash on me today.
A gigantic powerpoint final project for my Spanish class isn’t due until April 17-I thought it was due Sunday night, but I rechecked the calendar today and nope, the 17th. So I’m VERY happy. That class can’t end soon enough.
@MITer94 what does CPW mean? Congrats on doing so well in Putnam. Are you a math major?
@whenhen Yes
CPW = Campus Preview Weekend at MIT (for newly-admitted students)
@MITer94 What year are you in? (I’m a freshman in high school but I’m taking math classes at uni)
@whenhen Sounds like a great day, wow! Congrats x7! What field are you in?
@MotherofDragons Whew! A whole extra week. ¡Qué alivio! What’s the class for – personal enrichment, going for a degree or certificate or?
@CharlotteLetter senior
@MITer94 Congrats on that. Don’t scare them too much.
@bodangles I’m in geology and geography but I want to eventually work in supply chain management.
@bodangles getting my BA in studio art. I have enough credit for two college degrees, but we’ve moved with job opportunities and I had to transfer schools (this is my 10th college/university since 1988), and then I had our two kids and they kept me busy.
They’re class of 2017 and 2018 in HS now so I’m back at school full time next semester (three classes this semester). Spanish was the one low level class I’d been avoiding so I bit the bullet this semester. Que lastima! No me gusta Espanol.
I should graduate next spring-I want the degree and I want the girls to see that you stick with stuff, no matter how long it takes, because education is important. And I LOVE my classes (except Spanish).
@MotherOfDragons 10 colleges? Are your kids looking into any of the schools you’ve attended?
@whenhen my first college was Carnegie Mellon, and D17 considered it for CS, but wants a more balanced college setting and less grindy.
Another one is Florida Atlantic University, and younger D may have that one on her list.
U-Miami was on both the girls’ lists for a while but is now WAY too expensive for us to be able to afford.
Three were community colleges, so not really in the running.
Oglethorpe University is too local and suburban, Georgia State is too dangerous, UGA is one of their financial safeties, and UNG (where I am now) is seriously out in the boonies and that’s a no-go.
Sorry for the thread spread!
Cool story @MotherOfDragons, my father spent my entire childhood working on his Bachelor’s Degree in Business way back when. He graduated a year before I graduated from high school, we were all so proud of him. Finishing a degree is a big deal no matter how long it takes, and no doubt it will inspire your kids.
Great to hear that all of you are doing so well and are going to have a nice weekend.