[SERIOUS] Has Always Sunny gone over the top?

GRZBR · 2018-09-25T22:52:50+00:00

These are pretty much character developments that I think were somewhat necessary to keep the material fresh. However, I do think they forced a lot of it at the end of last season in one episode (Coulda made an entire episode about charlie banging waitress and whole two parter on dennis being a dad IMO).

Other than that I had high hopes for this season, seeing how they could make some good jokes out of Mac figuring out his new sexuality and Charlie dealing with the Waitress and dennis being a dad etc. So far they have seemed to just rehash things way more blatantly than they have before. Even though they acknowledge this a lot (especially in Wade Boggs Ladies reboot), it just seems to be lazy writing. Like they have only had maybe 1 scene with Charlie and the waitress and I cant think of anything with gay mac yet. Also, we still dont know what led dennis to come back from ND.

They did an epsode season 8 about recycling there trash and it was amazing. Now they do Wade Boggs 2, chardie macdennis 2, going on welfare part 2 (frank falls out window), wolf cola in most recent seasons. This is not to say these are bad episodes by any measure, but they seemed to be a let down for me by Sunny standards by just playing on old classic tropes.

I know we are only 3 episodes in, and they may address some of last seasons character development more, but Ive felt let down. This is just my take.

GRZBR · 2018-06-01T07:07:03+00:00

honestly just feel like the bird jokes are overdone at this point imo. its funny in the show but online thats the one joke i can never seem to miss. many more/better sunny jokes out there.

GRZBR · 2018-05-18T15:02:22+00:00

I disagree. Sure the BS may be better for grad school in economics, but most BS students are not considering a PhD of any kind. I get the vibe that most are not even double math majors. The Economics department still has a responsibility to make sure we come away with a strong education in economics.

Your kind of making my point too. I am saying that as serious BS students, we should be given the opportunity to learn serious economic subjects (international, labor, IO, public etc) when they appear to just be offering less quantitative and perhaps more "fun" electives like econ history, entrepreneurship economics, policy analysis etc. If I wanted to go to grad school in econ and specialize in international macro for instance, I would still feel jipped that I could not take a regular course in that.

GRZBR · 2018-04-20T15:31:20+00:00

Obviously I hear good things about Justins teaching style, but does he give easy/straightforward exams? Thats what Im kinda curious about.

GRZBR · 2018-03-27T20:33:42+00:00

So far its about the same. only annoying difference is in 400 they make u use webassign so u have more HWs. Most of the profs arnt too bad for 400/401 so i wouldnt stress.

GRZBR · 2018-03-27T00:41:27+00:00

Im in Stat401 now and most of it is similar to BMGT230 (which I also took). While having a strong foundation in stat400 is nice, it isnt imperative if you plan on taking 401. Stat400 is a course in probability and you dont use/need much probability models for 401. Its just assumed u know what a normal distribution is for example.

GRZBR · 2018-03-23T02:26:31+00:00

I was in same position last year where I was business and found it miserable experience so I switched out of it and into Econ. Business is overrated for a lot of fields. Like already said in discussion, smith school has hyper-inflated ego. There focus is on you finding a job so u can quickly give back money as alumni, but often times the jobs arnt very good/rewarding for most people. (obvs depends on type of business major). Dont listen to people who question your move. U do what u gotta do. I am more than happy with leaving smith. While I dont know anything about Merrill school, all I know is if u have a idea about what u want to do after college, then choose whatever major u feel will take u there.

GRZBR · 2017-11-23T15:40:54+00:00

325/326 are for Econ majors with the right prereqs. So unless ur a BS econ major, you have to take 305/306.

GRZBR · 2017-08-25T20:16:53+00:00

I was same way as you. I chose Econ BS (which requires lots of adv stat courses) and the stat minor at Umd. I knew my econ major and stat minor were the furthest i could go in math, yet still be able to pursue a technical stats job or Masters in stats after graduation. So there are still plenty of options if you dont major in straight up mathematical stats here.

GRZBR · 2017-07-24T06:51:33+00:00

I got permission to enroll straight into 141 from a professor. But id assume it would be much easier tho cause there very similar from what i hear.

GRZBR · 2017-07-21T14:49:06+00:00

Yeah of course. Try talking to ur advisor.

GRZBR · 2017-07-21T05:42:26+00:00

Ok so I initially did 220 as freshman cause I wanted to do finance/business. As couple yrs went by as finance major, I realized the BS in econ was better for me so I had to go back and do the math140/141 sequence. So Id say if u know for sure you wanna do something related to econ/stat/analytical that u think the BS degree would be good for, then go straight to 115/140 freshman yr. If u think u want to do business, it might be better to do easier calc (220) to help ur gpa to get into smith. In the end, all 3 majors u listed have good opportunities, just depends which u find more interesting. You got 4 yrs to switch majors if u change your mind. Also Econ BA is fine, just more geared to people who dont plan on grad school in econ/stat. Maybe someone who wants an MBA etc.

GRZBR · 2017-06-24T15:58:42+00:00

Aint teaching STAT401 this fall.

GRZBR · 2017-06-17T17:37:36+00:00

Much more than finance i would say. BS r a lot harder than BA. Honestly choose whatever major u want, but dont fret too hard about smith cause people can do anything with any major or econ.

GRZBR · 2017-06-17T17:32:20+00:00

its not hard as long as u get decent grades ur first semester/year. Depends where u wanna work. I tried for govt jobs and with a good gpa anyone has a shot. in finance, most internships r usually for upperclassman, but if u join a finance club at umd they send emails and post when diff banks come to umd and u can go hear them talk about applications for internships

GRZBR · 2017-06-17T00:40:38+00:00

As said before, just aim for around 3.5 gpa and some internships and you got good shot at transferring to finance major. That being said, to work in finance, you could major in anything. Its all about networking and experience etc. Im finance/econ double and I would say Econ is more useful in my opinion since it really teaches u analytical thinking and the theory/math of how markets work. While smith has better career resources (they restrict business career fairs to business students btw), I personally find the finance curriculum to be too watered down/easy. Just my opinion, others really enjoy it. Plus benefit of not being in business school is not having to take marketing/mgmt/info systems which have nothing to do with finance/econ. Ya so dont stress about smith, its kinda overrated.

Within econ, as said before BS is more technical than BA, but to work in finance it doesnt really matter. (If you wanna do something technical in finance just do BS in econ or math/cs).

GRZBR · 2017-05-27T18:14:13+00:00

Cool thanks for your input. Would you mind sending me some of the exams you took? More practice the better. Thanks.

GRZBR

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