/gsg/ - Graduate students general

MS in applied math here. i just got accepted to the only math PhD program I applied to, with full tuition paid + 22k usd stipend for 1 year.

feels good.

>refuse induction
this is why you get rekt. induction is the easiest, especially when you can present it in algorithmic form.

Tell me your best grad student stories please

Why

*has crazy college sex*
not really tho lol

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>MS in applied math
Did you attend a master's program after you finished undergrad? Or did you attend one of the schools that do a five-year BS+MS program?
Been a code monkey for five years now. I want a master's degree, but I don't want to pay for it out of pocket. Do they fund master's degrees in math in the US?

i want to kill myself every day

Kek'd

Feelsbadman. Just failed an oral exam leading to candidacy. I'm getting the MSc, but I'm watching an 8-year dream crumble around me.

1st year biomedical science PhD student; how much does grad school GPA matter? Currently sitting at a 3.6, which I heard is pretty shitty for grad school but also that it doesn't matter that much.

Also had my first experiment fail, do advisors usually expect this?

Other than that pretty good, my PI picked me over the other 1st year to collab with a lab in the ChemE dept.

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>Ph.D
usually funded
>M.S.
sometimes. You have no choice but to ask around.

>be me
>B.S. mechanical engineering
>I am qualified to make screws and ball bearings
>don't wanna be a pencil pusher, therefore grad school
>gonna do M.S. Applied Math.
>yeah math is cool

>first semester take mathematical physics
>(1) begins with the construction of hilbert spaces of functions under the L2-norm and completion proofs with cauchy sequences and everything
>lmao what?
>(2) Calculus of Variations
>(3) PDEs, no babby stuff, we start with Green's functions and LaGrange Identity
>(4) Complex Analysis, specifically for inverting laplace and fourier transforms manually
>(5) Calculus on Manifolds
>(6) Group Theory

on Final exam I proved all Diff.Eq.s which produce poles under the fourier transform existing only in the upper half plane are asymptotically stable. I also solved gravitational field using 3D laplace's equation around a planet of unknown density using the measured force field on it's surface as the boundary condition.

>mfw

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Thanks for asking.

A little less than 2 months left to finish the thesis. I'm a PhD in mathematics, this shit has took 6 long years. For some reason I will never completely understand, I chose a really really hard specialty.

At times, I hate everything, I get up, drink coffee, go to office and do math until my brain hurts, go home, cook dinner, drink and do math until my brain hurts some more.

Still, I've got a postdoc waiting for me at the end of this. Postdoc advisor seems like he'll be super chill. And I guess it will one day feel really good to see the thesis result published in a journal. But that's a ways away.

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I'm terrified of this happening to me.

I did my undergrad in chemistry, and I'm starting a MSc in theoretical chemical physics in September. All of the graduate courses I need to take will be graduate level mathematical methods, quantum mechanics and spectroscopy/photonics. I don't even know how the research group I'm joining is legally under the department of chemistry and not physics.

I've been working in industry as a data scientist to pay off my colossal debts, but I want to go for a PhD. I fucked up undergrad and got a 3.2, but I have nearly flawless GRE scores on practice exams. I fell for the "explore your passions" meme and took classes solely on the basis of how interesting they sounded and did mediocre grade wise.

Should I even bother applying? Did econ and a humanities undergrad. Looking at either an Econ or CS program.

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Have you done research? I basically did the same thing (graduate with ~83% average, but last year before applying was nearly flawless) but also did a fuck ton of research. I also had an F on my transcript while applying. I ended up getting into a top 25 global school.

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Yes, but not with my name published on it. I did research for an Econ professor for a semester, but it was mostly literature review.

I also did a year of research for a sociology professor which consisted of lit review, data scraping and database setup (ie a big ass excel spreadsheet) of legal codes.

I feel as if it works against me though because
>sociology

*farts*

>applied math
>group theory
why.jpg

DELET THIS
>windows not linux
>spaghetti icon rape desktop
>chrome
>steam
>matlab

FUCKIN DELET!!!!!!!!!

why would you take a math masters after a brainlet engie degree. do englets even take pdes? analysis? algebra?

hahahaha
how much undergrad math did you take?
expect to work your ass off and lean heavily on the physicists. and you better come through for them if they ever need a chem reference, you will be useless unless you took theoretical chem & physical chem in undergrad

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>I chose a really really hard specialty.
which is what?

I took all the computational/theoretical/physical chem courses I could take out of interest. I became decent with group theory because my thesis involved developing symmetry adapted operator expressions, but thats about it for fundamental math other than the few mandatory calc (I,II,III) and linear algebra courses.

I.e) I avoided as much lab work as possible during undergrad

Still feel like most of what I've done is babby tier shit. Tfw have never touched a density matrix

oh well you didnt say that. youll be damn fine. youll only need a little more math and some stats which you probably have a good start on thanks to the comp courses

no sweat mate

t 90% of physics research groups here work with chem dept

Because I do what I want, jack.
spoiler alert: I aced the course, pic related

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idk, It's used in quantum physics I believe and the class services both the math and physics departments

>babby courses

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Bro what kind of school are you going to?

I'm starting my chem phd this fall and am already getting projects shoved on me. I technically have to do rotations before I decide an advisor but an advisor has already called dibs on me and wants me in this summer.

thanks for the comfy feels user, hope you're right

When will gangstalkers fix all the tedium in fucking life i am honestly just so fucking tired of how everything in this existance has to be so mind numbing like take earning a wage for example you are a worker and you are working for 24 hours and still later you have only like 120 dollars like how the fuck do you expect pppl to make a living off honest labour when you are getting such a pitance after spending like 24 frikkin hours literally doing nothing but working your ass off and the fucking cherry on the top is the fact that you are expected to fucking shit in front of your coworkers for those 24 hours otherwise you risk getting ganked BY THE FUCKING STATE oooooh and lets not talk about building trade posts enywhere like in venetian zone or genoan zone like what the fuck is the point of this this shit is fo kfucking broken everything in this life is broken and then there is alliances and packs like holy fuck yeah if you have a pact or alliance you are literally gonna get your shit robbed by the FUCKING GOVERNMENT so you ca go lose your money and start all over again and lets not even tlak about how you will never find a wife to marry in eastern europe because everyone fucking joins the "i don't want children" in defense holy fuck this shit is so nbroken

Reminder that Huey Long did nothing wrong

umm no

Should i go to graduate school for a masters or not I dont know!

>Undergrads need not apply
Kindly sit quiet while the grad students talk please. Maybe you'll find your answer indirectly.

yes

Answer me!
Why

test

no

How the fuck do I contact profs for undergrad research experience/introduce myself before I apply to their labs (Aerospace engineering)? I live far away from any of the schools so I cant visit physically

Just finished my junior year, and I started my senior in September. So I want to email a bunch of people asking if I can be useless for a summer and do some research but my attempts last year failed hard.

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you do it in person

I cannot go to 7 different schools across the nation, none of them are local. I cannot just go in person to MIT, caltech, purdue etc and speak to every prof I would like to work under

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wait what
you just talk to your professors at your current uni and ask if they have any research opportunities available

I don't want to do research at my current uni because they don't have anything aerospace related

shit don't know what to tell you there
it's all school dependent in that case, unless you have enough connections to make reaching out to companies worthwhile
you'll have to contact the different schools offices to see if they have opportunities available, and i'd do it by phone if i were you

I'm gonna be working at NASA in the summer but I'd like a way to just introduce myself to the profs so they know my name and know me when I apply for masters in the fall

not really sure what you could do for those professors
>hi i'm not from this school but here's my name
>please notice me senpai

at least you'll have the opportunity to make connections while you're at NASA though

im going to NASA as well what's your name dude we should meet up

1st year biomed masters student, studying bacteriology and biochemistry. super interesting topic, but column chromatography is pretty AIDS t b h my man

strongly considering the PhD but my PI told me to keep working kek

>had my first experiment fail

this is GOOD because you become a better fucking scientist when you fail, i'm not even joking. my shit failed a lot when i first started out and i learned so much from it

I'm going to Ames or JSC, not sure who to accept yet

I have a degree in environmental sciences from a top uni. I have experience in GIS and data analytics along with good internship experiences. Right now i can’t find a job in my field so I’m thinking of a master’s degree. Would this be a viable option? I want to get much more scientific experience in my field.

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Any Electrical bros here? I am about to graduate and I need a job. Applied everywhere but no calls yet, very worried

I plan on getting a masters at FGCC, I heard it's tough but it's my passion.

>I did poorly on the test because you didn't grade my labs fast enough

the fuck is a FGCC?

Is this a real thing people say?

>master's student
>defending in summer
>writing a different paper for publication unrelated to my thesis
>presenting on it in a month at a conference

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>the fuck is a FGCC?
Short for "Frost, Grunt, Cry, Cum"

First year econ, do I belong here?

>grad student set theory
>reading research papers
>working with 2 guys
>still getting used to meetings them (one will def be my advisor) pretty intimidating

yes... intimidating like my dick

W&B....

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shut the fuck uP'

"No"

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> white male
> wants a grad position
Kek, good luck.

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heh...

WHAT?

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haha he many arm

hehe how he did that

jaja yo no se

*elevates thread*

my ears just popped

What the fuck are you doing?

all me btw

all me ;)

There are nine strange things in this photo.

what are they

black people graduating

black people

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god, i wanna marry a white woman one day just to watch a huge black guy fuck her in front of me

>if you're black you've probably shagged me mum

>Comparing a child with a bodybuilder

my post

You can see that blacks have low IQ by the way they write on twitter. Like children, with lots of emojis etc.

...

There is nothing wrong with blacks having a low IQ. It's a feature of their race and we should respect them as they are. This has nothing to do with politics.

YOU FUCKING NAZI