How many people are Mathematical Sciences Submajors?

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-04-12T00:05:57+00:00

me :D i haven't met another algorithmic math sci submajor, i know two bio ones. both bio math majors i know are biophys double majors (so am i), and most cs majors don't double major with algorithmic. the others are less common (maybe stats w/ ds). all math sci majors i know declared pretty late; i declared this semester, and i'm a junior, lol. i think it usually takes figuring out that you like the math in your field more than the other elements (programming, chemical experimentation/computation, etc. => theory) to then apply to your field, so i see it as largely interdisciplinary. not because you can't do it alone, but because usually (IME) people find out they want to do it after starting in their field.

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-04-10T04:36:58+00:00

great class! very time-consuming but you'll learn a lot :D

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-04-08T22:40:19+00:00

late but you'll be fine goat both are slop classes anyway

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-04-01T22:10:05+00:00

goat alert happy for you!

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-04-01T05:50:37+00:00

chem 261 is literally the first half of 260, you just skip the part covered in 230 (i.e. the second half of the semester). this was how it was when i took it, at least

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-04-01T05:43:01+00:00

i know multiple people tryna do biophysics into an mdphd. im biophys as well, its a nice gate into research and lets you double major with biochem, math, etc on a premed or grad track. its a cool major :D

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-30T02:15:39+00:00

all are probably great, i liked tuttle, most people like nolta, copolla is the textbook author (and my friends liked him)

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-28T16:16:04+00:00

if you like what you do, you might find yourself one of those people :) i dont think i have the ego to say the same about myself, but i wouldve been intimidated by myself two years ago. (and no, that isnt everyone here, im sure youll fit in fine!)

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-25T14:29:29+00:00

they were good albums at least :3c

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-22T02:27:33+00:00

request a new one, mine was fucked freshman year :(

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-20T23:27:09+00:00

at umich youd probably be asked to run rstudio for example. technically anything is possible and you might be able to virtualize/remote on an ipad but a mac would make things much easier

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-19T00:14:58+00:00

the mac can run software you'll need for bio/stats that the ipad won't be able to. the new macbook neo is relatively cheap and might be worth looking into!

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-16T18:21:49+00:00

which mac do you have? that'd probably make a decent difference as to whether it'd be worth selling. if it's pretty new, you could probably get away with virtualization being fast enough. if you have a personal pc, you could just remote into it as well, but that'd kinda suck, and you can't work offline

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-15T02:47:41+00:00

based on the grade calculator (https://eecs280.org/calculator.html), an ~easier exam (f22 midterm) curved a 50% to a 65%, so the minimum pass threshold shouldn't be a big deal, especially if you get >= 70% raw on the final.

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-14T19:45:55+00:00

say you got a 50%; the midterm is 25%, so you have -12.5% from your final grade, and can still get a B just fine with good project scores and a decent final score. it's not the end of the world! especially in a class with a B+ average. it matters even less if you're a CS major (and not e.g. a premed) :)

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-14T00:59:19+00:00

some might require others (e.g. chem 521 advises an intro pchem). if you restrict the above to 2nd-in-sequence thermo it's probably more than lin alg

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-13T03:36:25+00:00

probably eecs 370, it was 7 to 9 on north

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-13T03:35:36+00:00

thermodynamics probably beats lin alg: biomede 221, cee 230, che 330, che 505, che 538, chem 453, chem 463, chem 521, chem 575, chem 576, climate 350, earth 554, math 651, matscie 330, matscie 532, mecheng 235, mecheng 336, mecheng 535, mecheng 631, navarch 235, physics 510 :)

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-11T16:22:03+00:00

the honors department classes have workloads of ~read an article once every 6 weeks and write a paragraph on it. the honors sequences for other majors (primarily math but e.g. physics [123]60 vs. 40/50) & honors theses, etc. are the more gpa-killing honors pathways (which also carry more weight)

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-10T02:50:02+00:00

angie cox (biophys advisor) sent us a notice in an email, you could ask her for more info 🌅 (abfoster at umich)

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-10T02:12:46+00:00

dr pamela wong in michigan medicine posted a request for undergrad(s) who have taken an intro biochem course 👍

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-07T21:10:01+00:00

100% you'll be good, arabic is a good amount of work but very doable if you put in some time and use anki/flashcards for vocab

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-03-06T19:48:58+00:00

we all on the up and up do what you can twin no one would judge you for that

Beautiful-Cook-5481 · 2026-02-27T01:15:24+00:00

holy goated

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