<p>oh! and another question :).
please don’t take this the wrong way… this might come out odd… >_<.</p>
<p>but… how are the girls at barnard when it comes to feminism and stuff like that? i mean, i know it’s a women’s school. and i’ve been following some students’ tumblrs (blogs) and i’ve seen a few of them post things about how their assignments are supposed to be about feminism & etc. i’m all for women’s rights & such but i’m not like crazy, man-hating blahblah… i’m sure barnard’s not like that too though. heh. i actually really like that barnard isn’t coed :). i guess i’m just asking, how does barnard being a women’s school change the way the classes work? is it really obvious? for example, are a lot of the english papers you write about going to be about women?</p>
<p>again, i know i could have worded this question better… i just don’t know how >_<.</p>
<p>hey THISISSCARY - no worries, I know what you mean! there are all kinds of students at Barnard, and all kinds of classes. Occasionally I felt that professors in my Barnard history classes made a point of emphasizing women’s history more than they might have at a coed school, but it was never annoying or at the expense of understanding the time period as a whole.<br>
As far as writing papers, generally you have lots of options. In college, much more than in high school, professors want you to write on what interests YOU and even if they supply a prompt, there are plenty of choices. In higher level classes, professors don’t usually supply prompts. So you are rarely forced to write about something that doesn’t interest you. I managed to write countless papers on military history, even when that was sort of tangential to the class itself. (I compared two wars in a final paper for a class called Women in Antiquity.) So don’t worry about it!</p>
<p>did anyone else have an interview?
i had mine yesterday and… >____<;;</p>
<p>^Yeah, I interviewed over the summer…it was really awkward. It was with a student, but there was an admissions counselor in the room to “evaluate the student interviewer”, but she eneded up asking me questions, as well.</p>
<p>I have a question: How easy/hard is it to make friends at first? Are people generally open, or are there a lot of private school girls who all know each other?</p>
<p>Hi treehugga!</p>
<p>Of course the answer to your question depends on you! (And will probably be more or less the same no matter where you go.)
I didn’t find Barnard to be especially full of private school girls and I can’t say that I ever considered in my friend group who was from private school and who was from public. It doesn’t really matter.
You make friends by joining extracurriculars and meeting people there, or striking up conversations with people in your classes, or getting to know your roommate(s) and hallmates in your first year. You have to make an effort, of course, but I think Barnard students are as friendly as students anywhere else.</p>
<p>Great thanks…this sounds really dumb but all the people who I happen to be friends with on FB are girls from private schools who all know each other coming in, and go out to clubs every night, etc. It may just be the people I know, though! I’m good at making friends, but not if everyone already has their “groups”. Glad to know its not especially hard at Barnard.</p>
<p>I need your guys’ help…who is smart enough to answers this stat Q!
A small business just leased a new computer and color laser printer for three years. The service contract for the computer offers unlimited repairs for a fee of $100 a year plus $25 service charge for each repair needed. The company’s research suggested that during a given year 86% of these computers needed no repairs, 9% needed to be repaired once, 4% twice, 1% once, and none required more than three repairs.
1.) Find the expected number of repairs this kind of computer is expected to need each year. Show work
2.) Find the standard deviation of the # of repairs each year
3.) What are the mean and standard deviation of the company’s annual expense for the service contract?
4.) How many times should the company expect to have to get this computer repaired over the three-year term of lease?
5.) What is the standard deviation of the # of repairs that may be required during the 3-year lease period? On what assumption does you calculation rest? Do you think this assumption is reasonable, explain?
6.) The service contract for the printer estimates a mean annual cost of $120 with the standard deviation of $30. What is the expected value and standard deviation of the total cost for the service contracts on the computer and printer?
7.) Which service contract should the company expect to cost more each year? How much more? What is the standard deviation?</p>
<p>Hi! Thanks for creating this thread!</p>
<p>I was wondering if you knew roughly how many of the deferred early decision students are accepted in the spring? Did most of your friends apply ED and get in, RD, waitlisted, etc?</p>
<p>Thanks so much!!</p>