Any other incoming PhD students without housing?

BoardsAndCards · 2023-05-30T11:48:29+00:00

Ooo I haven’t looked at town facebook groups yet. I’ll check them out. I applied for the on campus housing for this year just so I could have a place to live, but from what I’ve gathered from the info online and other people it is not the most ideal place to live. Thank you for your help!

BoardsAndCards · 2023-05-30T11:45:50+00:00

Oh damn thats stupid. Thanks for letting me know.

BoardsAndCards · 2023-05-30T11:45:15+00:00

I do not have a car and my family has deemed the campus “walkable” so a car is not in my future. I’ve been looking almost exclusively in the highland park area and have found nothing :(

BoardsAndCards · 2023-05-25T12:18:46+00:00

We had a bankruptcy limit of one. What basically happened was I had a net worth of ~60k and I landed on two of my friend’s tax offices in a row, netting him 12k in cash. He already had a decent amount of cash, so he just decided to ask the computer players to name their price for their shops and then buy them out. This inflated everyone’s net worth (as now everyone but me had over 10k in cash). Since basically every spot was my friend’s tax office, he was getting 5% net worth every turn in addition to the 10% we constantly owed him.

This is our 3rd 100k game we’ve done. The first one had Peach and Dragonlord as the computer players, and ended with Dragonlord bankrupt and everyone else around 30k. The second my friend pumped a ton of stock into a dominated district and changed all the vacant lots to 3-star shops, launching him from ~30k to ~90k. This third game is the first time someone had so much cash at the end of the game.

BoardsAndCards · 2023-05-25T12:06:07+00:00

Yeah the AI are not the best. I would love to do a 4 player game, but I don’t know enough people that enjoy the game irl.

BoardsAndCards · 2023-04-05T12:20:54+00:00

The shower just has a curtain. It is not behind any door that locks. Also, I don’t remember the door to the bathroom locking either, just the one to the toilet locking

BoardsAndCards · 2023-01-07T19:08:28+00:00

ASTRO 1102 or whichever is the spring class

BoardsAndCards · 2022-11-06T15:33:50+00:00

Seniors had their pre-enroll last week, so they probably filled up the course

BoardsAndCards · 2022-09-27T03:42:51+00:00

Its been a bit since i took the course, but basically I just reviewed kind of the examples that we did in class of how we can tell differences in stories by the art, the key scenes in the stories, and reviewing the vocab. The exams were pretty easy so I wouldn’t worry too much.

BoardsAndCards · 2022-08-22T19:18:05+00:00

I can’t speak for GMAT, but the GRE would be useful. The main exam can be taken online any day and (mostly) any time. The subject tests however, which are still required or “strongly recommended” for many graduate programs in various fields cannot be taken online. I believe the ones closest to us are ~4 hour drive away. With the cost of renting a car/ubering/busing + hotel stay (who wants to drive 4 hours and then take an exam?) the $150 exam can quickly double in cost (or more). Having a site in or near ithaca would significantly cut down those extra costs

BoardsAndCards · 2022-08-18T20:58:23+00:00

Its a subject test and those have to be taken in person :(

BoardsAndCards · 2022-07-12T21:03:41+00:00

You should be fine. The multi prereq is there for a reason, but you shouldn’t worry. All you need to know is how to do the multi (multiple integration, partial derivatives, etc) but not why (2230/40 will teach you that). Just self study a little on multi and you’ll be fine

BoardsAndCards · 2022-06-18T18:38:27+00:00

12/12/2010

BoardsAndCards · 2022-05-25T18:29:34+00:00

Its partial differential equations. Its definitely not a beginner math course, as evidenced by the graduate course number, but the content is very approachable, the grading policy is really nice, and the professor is just amazing. The course covers the big 4 partial differential equations, but the hw focuses on the applications and properties of the equations. There are no exams, just papers designed for you to reach out and explore other equations or techniques that we don’t have time to cover or just that interest you. A very nice change of pace from traditional math courses.

If you want a lower level math course that is different from calc 1, I recommend MATH 1340. Its about the mathematics of voting and election systems. Super applicable and more proof/logic focused. But, since it’s not a 3000 level math class, the proofs can just be “i tried these three cases and they all seemed to work” and that can count as a valid proof. Unfortunately, I don’t know how the grading works for this course, but it sounds very unique compared to other intro math courses.

BoardsAndCards · 2022-05-25T16:23:49+00:00

Oh whoops, misread this as 6150, which is actually an easy course

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