Recent content by proof

This guy has written over 5,000 pages of scholarly material--all for others. Wow. in the past year. http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329 :-( does this bother any of you?

well i voted 8-10 but that's only because there wasn't a lower option. average is between 5-8 hours

It's important to distinguish here between how the world should be and how the world actually is. yes i agree it is a shame and utterly nonsensical that prestige matters so much. the education system shouldn't be this way but it is the way it actually is. Knowing this is useful because you can...

your school's prestige can easily be one of the largest determining factors of where you end up in grad school / future employment so i am going to recommend transferring as long as it is reasonably possible (cost approx the same etc)

seems like a strange policy. what are your reasons for not going before you apply/start grad school? that seems like it would be the best time to me so that you don't have to break up your phd at all. Doing it before the phd i think is better than after because after you might want to be...

have you ever heard of mirado black warriors?

thought it was great. i think you will get accepted. only thing i would change is you might want a conclusion sentence or two which kind of summarize your intentions. like "in conclusion because of blah blah blah i feel the opportunities in your program would blah blah blah and i would blah blah...

personally i liked the use of colors

well at the undergraduate level the degree you get is going to be very general. I know you could do your undergraduate in E.S. in physics and then if you came here for your PHD you would have the choice to get your PHD in theoretical or applied. There isn't that much specialization at the...

I only know the answer to c and it's a big YES! hopefully more qualified people will respond in detail and also to your other inquiries!

still a very strange policy...

sounds like it's time to take a visit to the deans office

i've been in classes that have had this policy. you were never given your exams back even at the end of the semester. one person asked why and the teacher said he had to keep them for records / grades or something like that. real vague answer. if you wanted to look at the exam you could go to...

not at all. many(most?) mathematicians are horrible at basic arithmetic.

the "ME" you talk about is your mind and your mind is made up of physical matter. your reaction to the truck going down the road, the mountains, and the rivers, are determined by your genetics and your environmental conditioning, and both are controlled by physical laws.