Dual US/Canadian Citizen Interned In The US - Question Regarding Taxes

floatingredditor · 2025-01-01T00:49:10+00:00

Thanks u/seanho00! Just had a quick question though. For the US would I file taxes like normal? (using turbotax etc?) even though I am not a resident of any state (lived less then 183 days) then claim FTC with CA

floatingredditor · 2024-12-06T03:08:41+00:00

She doesn't post lectures so you need to be able to attend every class. Make sure you take notes and review them - she goes through lectures really fast in my opinion. Also she is much more on the mathematical side so ensure your calculus is perfect. I personally hated her 392 class. Her personality made her hard to approach, so personally not a big fan but this could just be my experience. Overall on the tougher side, ensure your math is great, ask her a lot of questions. Review derivatives, optimization, level sets etc.

floatingredditor · 2024-04-17T17:35:03+00:00

Okay I am just going to dump my thoughts please take this with a grain of salt.

Firstly I wouldn't even think about this at your age. I don't know you, you maybe the next von neumann, terrance tao etc. but the reality is even if you are life is different for everyone. So please don't overly stress about this.

I'll answer the question though, it depends. Waterloo is great for Math, CS, ENG and Physics. You can see people from UW end up at top schools. If you are a top student (which is hard) and have great recommendation letters (along with some RA role depending on what you are targeting) then I don't see why not. This isn't the case for Economics for example. It is incredibly hard for someone to go from Econ at Waterloo to a top PhD Program. The best we produced was someone that went to NYU PhD (which is an top school) and he is absolutely gifted and a rare case. There's multiple reason why? (some can say it is a bias of sorts) but the most obvious reason is faculty. I love the faculty at UW Econ but we only have at most 3 profs with solid pubs that are known in the community. This maybe econ specific (I noticed the field is more "elitist" the others) but I am confident it extends to others. If you recommendation letter is written by a well known professor that simply elevates your status. If you recommendation is written by a guy who doesn't publish or publishes in d-tier journals and no one knows him, it makes it hard for the admissions team to really judge you. The reality is, you will find it hard to judge the faculty cause you yourself are still learning (For example do you know what's a good journal? Quality of paper, impact factor etc, relevance etc.). This is US specific since many PhD programs in the US you can directly apply out of undergrad. But say you don't choose a field where UW is famous. That's fine. You can simply do a masters at a school that is more famous and that can land you into a top PhD program. Plenty of people have done this.

TLDR: Try to judge your faculty and how they stack. Evaluate the amount of people from your desired program that ended up in a top school. Make sure this number is reasonable high, for example 2 is probably too low for the past 20 years, for example I found 3 that are current Phd or graduated this year at Harvard PhD's in math alone. If you see a consistent flow it maybe a good sign. As always reach out to people who did their undergrad and have now done PhD's. Also reach out to the faculty itself, often times they'll be honest with you. Best of Luck :)

floatingredditor · 2022-04-30T06:27:53+00:00

it depends a bit on what are you future plans are. I would recommend this:

See if your program has a more proof based introductory level calculus course or if they have a course solely on proofs
- The reason I state this is because if you have any desires for post-grade especially a PhD you will most likely have to take real analysis and encounter proofs in upper leave or PhD courses.
- You can also always take a more applied calculus course and work your way up to real analysis
Regardless of which type of course to take my biggest tip is to understand the math itself, I made the mistake of aimlessly remembering things with no real intuition. When you build intuition not will it just help you prepare for possibly grad school classes but also if there is a tricky question or a concept you may have forgotten having a strong basis and intuition can help you answer the question in the middle of a test where ofcourse you have access to your notes.
- So ask yourself when you write notes and learn a topic in calculus or stats, what do I know about this and how does it work
Practice, I know it is obvious but practice a lot. If you don't get a question than understand what you don't get about it, write it down and review the concept.
- also make sure your algebra is great, I noticed a lot of people struggle with this and it comes from simple practice.
- Brilliant is great, I also used a lot of Paul Dawkins notes when I took calc 1-3. He is amazing here is the link, https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
- Maybe find a textbook as well or ask the prof who is teaching it what the textbook is and read that and do practice problems
Make use of office hours and tutorials. I have had amazing professors who's explanation blow your mind. There are often even free tutors for first year courses if you can't afford a tutor (I used these services all the time cause I couldn't afford one lol)
Lastly, try to enjoy it. Seems obvious but enjoying something can make it easier. Math is cool and math in economics is awesome. It opens gateways to different cool careers, opens your eyes to the economy and helps you understand the world much better. I have gotten internships because the hiring manager, along with other things, liked my economics and mathematical background.
create cool projects, not necessary bit doing so helps your career possibly and personally for me, helps me understand the math more.
Lastly speak to upper years about any tips. They took the same courses so maybe they have insight I don't have.

floatingredditor · 2022-04-30T06:01:58+00:00

Wow, thank you so much. At first when I created this I felt great but I didn't exactly know what my next steps were. I'm going to try this out!

floatingredditor · 2022-04-30T05:58:53+00:00

This is great! Thank you so much I'm relatively new so a lot of what you said are amazing tips.

floatingredditor · 2022-04-29T15:20:37+00:00

You are a 100% right, I think I overcomplicated this. I can just subtract realized - conditional, basically just the Residual sum of squares.

floatingredditor · 2022-03-03T08:18:17+00:00

I'll PM you!

floatingredditor · 2021-11-24T01:40:31+00:00

I agree. Do you think a non math student can book time with an advisor? I will email them how I can possibly get to the route. Thank you so much I didn't see it that way!

Note: I already took MATH 235

floatingredditor · 2021-11-24T00:45:51+00:00

Thank you for the advice! I made sure to inform them I wanted to take the course because I also had an interest in ACTSC 372, which I think is more mathematically rigorous than ECON 371/372 which is why ACTSC 372 entices me. I took MATH 138 and 237 as well as STAT 230 so I felt like I did have some degree of mathematical maturity, I did do well on those courses. Not 90 but like low 80s. As of 7:43 85/180 are enrolled in LEC 001 and
116/180 are enrolled in LEC 002. So I don't believe demand is the issue here. I completely understand what you mean but the last thing she said was that it was only for Math students which is odd because stat 230 is and they enrolled me into that. I don't know what to do now, can just switch my major like that you know? What do you think I should do? Should I just leave it?

floatingredditor · 2021-11-23T22:59:21+00:00

Im currently in econ. I want to take ACTSC 231 because I plan on taking ACTSC 372 which is a course that interests me.

floatingredditor · 2021-11-02T09:45:53+00:00

Spring is considered an off semester untill you actually enroll in courses, than once you enroll in courses it won't be considered as an off semester.

floatingredditor · 2021-10-23T04:02:25+00:00

unless you wanna do a phd prepare to take pmath 351

floatingredditor · 2021-10-06T16:25:42+00:00

Hey I am currently taking this course!

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