So, I've officially graduated from Stuyvesant and will be going to The Cooper Union as a Mechanical Engineer this fall. Our graduation ceremony had David Axelrod (Obama's senior advisor) as the guest speaker and most of the various speeches went great, but the Alumni Association one made me wonder if people get stupider over time and the Parents Association speech tried to get people to chant "MORE MONEY FOR EDUCATION" or something along those lines. Idiots. He kept yelling it louder, but the audience kept getting softer with each repetition, thank god.

Who else is graduating this year, or has something else interesting to report?

You do it get stoopidurr with time!

Graduated from Bethel-Tate on May 21st, going to Wilmington College for Chemistry and "currently" a Math minor. Considering bumping the minor up and double majoring, because Chemistry already requires a decent amount of math (Calc I and II), while Math majors don't need too much more (Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, and Calc III is all). A Work-Study program, along with the Honors program I'm in, will make college a tad bit of a pain in the ass, but it should pay off.

Does graduating from architecture next year count?
Next year's my last, yay!

This is what I don't like about engineering degrees, you've got credits for an engineering degree and mathematics degree but they only give you the engineering degree. I've got Calculus I,II,III, Ordinary Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics and Programming & Algorithms. We've got all the science and elective courses they take, only would need like 6 credits in education classes but they won't let us.

Anyways, I'm studying Electrical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez and I've only got 36 credits until I graduate. December 2011!

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Graduated from Bethel-Tate on May 21st, going to Wilmington College for Chemistry and "currently" a Math minor. Considering bumping the minor up and double majoring, because Chemistry already requires a decent amount of math (Calc I and II), while Math majors don't need too much more (Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, and Calc III is all). A Work-Study program, along with the Honors program I'm in, will make college a tad bit of a pain in the ass, but it should pay off.

This is what I don't like about engineering degrees, you've got credits for an engineering degree and mathematics degree but they only give you the engineering degree. I've got Calculus I,II,III, Ordinary Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics and Programming & Algorithms. We've got all the science and elective courses they take, only would need like 6 credits in education classes but they won't let us.

Anyways, I'm studying Electrical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez and I've only got 36 credits until I graduate. December 2011!

They don't let you double-dip because you're in it for engineering? Or you just haven't asked?
I find it highly unlikely that a college would make you take the same course twice, even if you passed it for one major...

Where i go (University of Texas at Austin) our enigineering programs consider all those math classes as basic sequences. In order to move on to actual engineering related/technical classes you have to have taken all of those "easy" classes. If you want to minor in something (6 hours of lower division, 6 hours of upper divison), the desired classes cannot already be a part of your engineering cirriculum (so for instance, people could minor in something like foreign languages or business foundations.) Besides, I dont believe those math courses alone would be enough for even a minor. That's like saying knowing how to program will qualify you for a major/minor in Computer Science.

Anyways, no I won't be graduating. I will be a fifth year Senior. Can't wait to beat up on all the incoming freshmen boys (and pick up a few of them freshmen girls)

MillenniumArmy said it, since the classes are requirement classes for my curriculum, I can't use them to double up and get two degrees. We don't have minors here, just 12 credits in free electives and 18 credits in socio-humanistic electives. The programming and probability classes we engineers take are labeled as engineering classes, so they wouldn't take them into account, even though the class content is exactly the same. I already take all the Physics, Chemistry, Spanish, English and the core Mathematics classes they take. The education in mathematics bachelor's is 139 credits which in Electrical Engineering you already take about 90 of those credits. My degree is 165 credits so I've got plenty of room to take those classes.

That's super gay. My college requires 63 credit-hours for Chemistry, and I'm letting that overlap to at least minor in Mathematics as well, because it's only one more course for a minor, three for a major. I'm going to a small college, so they don't have individualized classes per each major...maybe that's why

Agreed with MA and Beer.

Since when did knowing calculus, differential equations, (multi)linear algebra, and maybe a little discrete math qualify you to be a degree-carrying mathematician? In my world math majors are done with all that by the end of freshman year, sophomore year if you're slow. Besides, math major-y math is all about abstract algebra, topology, and all that weird stuff that makes no sense.

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Since when did knowing calculus, differential equations, (multi)linear algebra, and maybe a little discrete math qualify you to be a degree-carrying mathematician? In my world math majors are done with all that by the end of freshman year, sophomore year if you're slow. Besides, math major-y math is all about abstract algebra, topology, and all that weird stuff that makes no sense.

It's a liberal arts college

Besides, I wont be doing anything with the math major, it'll just look nice on my resume and buff it up. I'm at Wilmington for the Chemistry, the math is just a plus

Math and Chemistry do not add up too well when it comes to jobs out there. If you want to buff up your resume, do something else that would compliment your chemistry really nicely. Like business/management (shows people that you know how to run a company and have good people skills) or chinese/french (just be sure not to learn fail languages like Spanish or Korean ;D). In fact, getting a minor in computer science (which is what i'm doing) would look really really well when employers see your resume since we live in a technological/computer oriented world (well I doubt your liberal arts college offers anything like that -.-)

It's true; CS majors who sacrifice their academic principles to accept jobs as "senior programmers" and sysadmins for rich companies get paid inordinate amounts of money. I have a friend who made ~$26k plus a free open bar for a summer internship at some hedge fund in New York.

I am transferring to UC San Diego in the fall as a math major. I am currently learning linear algebra on my own right now because I have nothing to do this summer.

Its funny because calc, differential equations, multi-linear algebra, and discrete math I *did* learn my first two years of college...and I'm a business major. A lot of business is based on theory, so it would make sense that you learn these things - briefly - and then spend the final two years applying and deconstructing the use of these types of mathematics. There are people in stats-oriented majors that are hella good at all these things. For my major, though, you really only need to understand it on an abstract base. I took an Ops Management class (best class I've taken so far, for the record) that combined stats, calc, and algebra and then applied it to models, charts, and tables. Honestly, with my background I have no idea how you would use differential equations outside of applying it. In my case, I believe several jillion (that is an exact number) growth models use differential equations. This reminds me that I think I have to take advanced stats next year...something about applying it globally. Damn. In short...these are all pretty basic foundations for pretty much any major remotely related to mathematics, even on a very abstract level.

Agreed. I had two calculus, differential equations, vectorial algebra, two physics and a whole bunch of civil engineering subjects(three structurations and static) and what do I study?

Architecture, not a math major I don't think there even is a math major in my country yet, all of these are common subjects (except for civil ones) in most engineers and licenciates of economics and administration.

You mean to tell me that I've been living 2 hours away from the minigame god this entire time?

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I suppose good to know that there's another Texan here in these forums (where are you from?)

just completed my first diploma and A level maths
next im doing 2 year national diploma and A level english
after that tis on to uni for 4 years for my degree