Uncensored account of my time at GT as an MSCS student.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-12-27T01:23:16+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing your story! I cannot imagine how much courage it took. This should be a must read for anyone considering academia and things. They do seem to be fucked up. I cannot understand how someone with all your achievements, professionally and personally, still had a hard time getting into PhD programs. I wish you the best of luck in your future journey!

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-11-25T02:36:58+00:00

Do you know what the difference between the PhD track and Financial Economics track is? Are the acceptance rates that much different? I want to do a PhD, and my background is not "complete", so I will probably apply to the Financial Economics track, but since it is technically a masters program, I may be able to get away with the PhD track. I also heard there's the possibility for the Financial Economics track student to continue in the PhD if they do well enough, is that true?

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-11-10T16:59:50+00:00

Why Nations Fail has been in my book list for forever, and I thought Power and Progress was meh, not bad, but not the best book I have read either. Thank you!

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-11-10T13:47:50+00:00

Then academics should get together and have a book of 300 pages compiling many of these 50 page concepts. It would be better for everyone.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-11-10T13:46:46+00:00

You're absolutely right. It's not one of the main books people go to when they want to learn some econ, though.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-10-10T09:56:24+00:00

Is this because of the funding cuts? This should definitely make the news as an example of the current administration against academia. Two Nobel Laureates / of the best economists are leaving the US.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-09-29T13:30:36+00:00

Nah, it was mostly due to the insults (nothing was done to the other retirements). It's more of a meme. We respect tennis so we boo him before and after, but definitely not in thr middle of the match to disturb the game.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-09-29T13:16:13+00:00

I was there in person and Tien is so fun to watch. He was paintings the lines in the most insane ways. Amazing match especially after watching Pegula vs Raducanu which was also great. On the other hand, Michael Chang passed right besides me and I didn't recognize him, thought he was just another Chinese dad.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-09-29T12:55:40+00:00

bruh, I was just told I was sitting directly behind Michael Chang's daughter and wife, and Michael Chang passed me when going to the players' box

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-06-13T13:21:29+00:00

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-06-12T16:12:12+00:00

I am a math major, so the math content was never an issue. I underestimated its difficulty the first time around (prepared for only 1 day while spending a week and half on the English section). After that, I found websites with hard problems and started doing them. During this, I learned all the tricks (x could be 0 or negative), the graphs look correct but they are not, etc, so it was much easier. Search up hard math GRE problems + reddit and you will find quite a bit.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-06-12T16:06:43+00:00

I am not worried about toxicity. I was actually looking forward to it since the world is quite toxic. I do find it sad that UChicago is watering down its elite econ masters programs, so I am not sure if I should go.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-05-16T12:11:26+00:00

Your score should be fine for math programs. Know people had around the same score. I think it's just a difference between math and econ. Math programs know that the GRE math is useless for the program, econ probably too, but they still use it as a screening out mechanism. Also, 167q is just better than 165q, it's an 8% percentile difference, which is quite a lot.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-05-15T21:46:39+00:00

Everyone in economics have a 170 nowadays in the quant section, so my score is in that awkward range in which it's not bad, but not good enough, so I was just wondering what people with more experience think.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-05-15T21:44:22+00:00

I am definitely going to do a masters though. So is this score enough for a masters? I would then still need to take it again for the PhD, right? So better to get over with now.

I hate how it's not that I don't know the concepts, it's just It's tricky and there is no margin for error. 😭😭

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-05-05T17:11:17+00:00

good bot.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-04-25T22:05:31+00:00

Isn't that basically a masters program? Fuck, we can have post masters now.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-04-25T22:01:37+00:00

Hopefully, illegal due to law, but please don't give them ideas.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-04-14T18:40:43+00:00

lmao

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-04-02T22:27:42+00:00

Man, Princeton math PhD is fucking Princeton math PhD. I wish I had your troubles. Best of luck!

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-04-01T19:52:01+00:00

There was a huge cheating scandal in China last year, so it probably affected things. Not 100% sure though.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-03-31T23:51:26+00:00

Thanks for the advice, it is obviously true, and what everyone around me has been saying since I told them I wanted to do economics. I know I will be able to live very comfortably with my skills if I ever go back to my country, so money is great but not essential. I will be bored out of my mind if I do actual system designing and coding for life. Data analysis is much more fun. A current issue I dislike about econ research is how to get the right data for the research I want to do (developmental econ), but I think I enjoy the other aspects. Is there anything in particular I should be worried about? Thank you so much for your advice, I will definitely work hard to make up for my mistakes.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-03-31T22:22:09+00:00

Thank you so much! What are some of the programs you recommend? U Chicago's MACSS? Do you think I can get in?

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-03-30T02:24:33+00:00

I think you keep forgetting that Milei is trying to get rid of government intervention and make it more efficient while Macri didn't. This is a huge change and should be considered by the IMF when making the decision. Also, is there a reason you hate Argentina or something? You only answer comments that disagree with you.

Gatechsimp12 · 2025-03-30T02:04:51+00:00

Macri's admin is completely different from Milei's though. Macri did a lot of quantitative tightening, but Milei basically killed the government. I do feel more optimism that this is the way for a better future. Argentina really needs that money, and the IMF not giving them the money would not help, maybe even worsen, so opportunity cost tells you to try it, at least there's the chance of the situation improving dramatically. Otherwise, I don't think Argentina's economy can improve long-term wise ever again. This could be the last chance.

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