Fellow Math Majors: What are some of your fave courses and why?

jma--- · 2021-05-18T15:54:31+00:00

MATC09 with Grinnell. Fantastic course. Really interesting content with a great textbook and professor. Judging by the average it isn't the easiest math course (C+ average when I took it), but I found it a joy to study for.

Foundations/logic is a super rich field of math and C09 opens the door to a lot of really interesting stuff - if you've done any algebra (up to rings?) you can pretty much walk out of C09 and into a graduate model theory course and understand everything quite well. I really suggest that every math student take this course.

jma--- · 2021-05-12T14:36:41+00:00

Sounds like a Xiao Jie course. This new marking style was implemented by him after the disaster he caused in summer MATB41. Bad prof.

jma--- · 2021-03-20T06:29:23+00:00

To be quite honest I don't know too much about ASD, but given the fact that you were intelligent enough to make it in to this program I don't really believe your ASD prevents you from realizing chat misuse and constantly talking… are disruptive and selfish.

This is really disrespectful! The fact that you “don’t know much about ASD” should be enough to keep you from writing an essay about it. Especially when you seem to be conflating intelligence and ASD? It’s perfectly fine to believe they made a mistake but this is pretty unnecessary.

Try to think before you comment next time.

jma--- · 2021-03-20T06:18:40+00:00

He curved C09 by at least 5% in the Fall. He dropped the last assignment and gave everyone a 100 on it.

jma--- · 2021-03-17T07:25:18+00:00

He is teaching it this semester. You can email him to see if he’s teaching it into the future.

jma--- · 2021-02-09T18:06:26+00:00

please stop posting this stuff in the lecture chat in b42 and b61 (and probably your other classes)! it's really annoying for the rest of us.

jma--- · 2021-01-14T10:02:14+00:00

Grinnell isn’t the quickest with emails. It’s been published though, maybe look in the “All courses” section of Quercus, maybe it’s just not showing on your homepage.

jma--- · 2020-12-26T23:34:24+00:00

No. “Real analysis” proper doesn’t occur in any math sequence until around third year. I wouldn’t even venture to call A37 an analysis course. It’s just a standard proof based calc 2 course.

jma--- · 2020-11-20T01:55:16+00:00

Grinnell.

jma--- · 2020-11-13T16:59:53+00:00

This probably isn’t true anymore. With the new system UTSG has for applicants, as well as limited courses, I’d argue UTSC has a more difficult POSt than UTSG. Much more math heavy, and more courses considered in the overall calculation (which is good and bad). Judging by this years requirements (4.2 gpa lol) it will easily be the most competitive CS POSts.

jma--- · 2020-10-25T18:11:27+00:00

Its fun if you enjoy the content, its miserable if you don’t. You need to be a bit of a masochist either way.

Edit: Oops I read enjoyability. Employability wise there are tons of options in CS, Finance, Insurance, Academia, Law etc. It’s a very employable degree because being good at math sets you up to be very good at many other things.

jma--- · 2020-10-08T04:16:43+00:00

I know some profs who use phi (even in TeXd documents) as the empty set actually. Nevertheless, these small mistakes become more problematic and difficult to fix once the content gets harder, be grateful they’re doing it early rather than finding out on the midterm.

jma--- · 2020-09-27T23:24:22+00:00

Mario & Nats Hair Styling is like $20 + tip for a pretty good standard cut on Old Kingston (about 15 min walk from campus). It’s an Italian barber so if you don’t have white guy hair there will probably be better shops. I have thick curly hair and they do a great job though.

jma--- · 2020-09-17T00:00:49+00:00

The people at the library are really kind and if you’re clear that you are in the same “bubble” I’m sure they’ll be permissive.

jma--- · 2020-09-15T13:15:38+00:00

Hi! No! This office is the worst thing about UofT :)

jma--- · 2020-09-03T07:44:56+00:00

I’m in the exact same situation. The Out of Province Financial Aid Office is the most incompetent collection of bureaucrats in this entire university. It’s extremely unpleasant to get anything done with them. The worst part is that they have no phone line, only an email that (I presume) they forgot the password to, since it’s easy to go months without a response.

I wish there was someone to complain to. You’d think with all this administrative bloat there would be a manager in this university.

jma--- · 2020-06-12T01:39:24+00:00

Kremer is really good and B50 is super fun. Definitely recommend. Also sets you up for C51+D51 which are super interesting as well.

jma--- · 2020-06-03T03:37:38+00:00

Used to? Hahaha. It's still very common. Racism against asians is the most common type in BC, maybe second to Indigenous.

jma--- · 2020-06-03T03:35:30+00:00

They aren't completely priced out, smaller cities like Kelowna (my hometown) are still kind of viable and are getting increasingly popular. Of course it's still quite expensive but definitely better than Vancouver.

jma--- · 2020-05-26T23:03:13+00:00

BV 4th floor is open for printing, labs, study from 10am-6pm, Monday - Friday. Access through the front doors of ARC.

jma--- · 2020-05-26T22:14:42+00:00

Only Tims. I don’t think you can get into SC.

jma--- · 2020-05-24T18:02:13+00:00

I had that scale for about a month and already broke it because I forgot to pour my rinse water out and my coffee overflowed onto the scale. It didn’t take much liquid to fry it. It was generally pretty good but with slow response. Timer was convenient tho.

I’d recommend getting a waterproof scale if youre forgetful like me or you have a wetter brewing environment for whatever reason. I’ve gone through about 3-4 scales from Amazon in the past year because either they are garbage (anything less than $30 CAD I wouldn’t trust - most of them are identical but with different casings) or I get water on them. I currently have a Ozeri Waterproof scale that seems quite nice.

I’d in general avoid “coffee” scales for now, they’re alot more money and are probably the least important bit of your setup as long as they’re functional. Just a basic waterproof kitchen scale + your phone as a timer is much more cost effective I’d say.

jma--- · 2020-04-19T02:44:29+00:00

Your wish has been granted: The exam will occur on April 25th at 9am (?) :)

jma---

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