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DLeRium,
I have an example that supports your point.
I earned a master's degree at a UC campus that required 25 courses, 100 units of work. That took me 51 months nights while also working full time.
Now I live near a different UC campus that grants masters degrees for only about 30-35 units of work, some even w/o a thesis! Two campuses of same university, wildly different criteria. Unfair!!!
I think the material in technical university courses tends more toward uniformity across venues (I've experienced several top ones).
E.G., A student's workload to learn physics or electrodynamics is about = whatever the university. Top professors spark your fascination, bad ones make it drudge. Top universities don't have many bad prof's because of the competitive weeding out. I also think that contrarily, the material in other sorts of courses, outside engineering, varies widely between venues.
I have an example that supports your point.
I earned a master's degree at a UC campus that required 25 courses, 100 units of work. That took me 51 months nights while also working full time.
Now I live near a different UC campus that grants masters degrees for only about 30-35 units of work, some even w/o a thesis! Two campuses of same university, wildly different criteria. Unfair!!!
I think the material in technical university courses tends more toward uniformity across venues (I've experienced several top ones).
E.G., A student's workload to learn physics or electrodynamics is about = whatever the university. Top professors spark your fascination, bad ones make it drudge. Top universities don't have many bad prof's because of the competitive weeding out. I also think that contrarily, the material in other sorts of courses, outside engineering, varies widely between venues.
Suspicious-Teach8788
Lifer
😱 LoL, well I apologize about the airplane problem, because I'm sure a page or two later I was advocating for the taking off of the plane? But that problem is a tricky one and it's more of a riddle than anything else. It's like Monty Hall. You could easily get tripped up about Monty Hall if you don't analyze the statistics carefully just like with the physics problem.
Anyways, I do have friends at Purdue that admit that their engineering program is easier.
Oh well, back to studying.
snoopdoug1
Platinum Member
link? 😉
GeneValgene
Diamond Member
upenn?...i think you mean jewpenn 🙂
It really isn't an "all-geeks" school; I'm sure it once was, but times are changing. There are certainly dorms on campus that are characteristically nerdy, but that is by no means true of every dorm. I mean as far as I can tell, we do things that happen at other colleges across the nation... sure have a higher population of the 'geeky' types, but whatever, everyone is pretty cool. I don't feel like I'm missing out on the fun of college life by being here 🙂 (Though I study more than I would if I had gone to like NC State or something.)
Although that mainly applies to undergrads. I can't say as much about the graduate situation. I do know from friends that the graduate dorms are pretty crappy as far as socializing goes--there's no sense of community. (Whereas most of the undergrad dorms have a fairly tight sense of community, where people on halls/sections do a lot of stuff together.) But then again, people don't stay in grad dorms long, which is probably why.
There's always plenty of stuff to do on campus--tons of student groups (e.g. we have the most intramural sports of any school last time I checked). And if you find that boring, Boston is right across the river & Central/Harvard Square are down the street.
Anyhoo, obviously I like it here. I'll stay for grad school if they want to keep me around, lol.
perhaps i'm just stupid but i found cal pretty hard too. it just seemed liek the school would set you up to fail, and hope that you get through okay. the school as a whole doesn't seem very student oriented. i've noticed this more as i talk to more people who go to different schools.
Blazin Trav
Banned
:thumbsup:
IAteYourMother
Lifer
Berkley is as hard as you want it to be.
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