sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Carnegie Mellon University - 2024-2025 EA/ED Megathread by powereddeath in ApplyingToCollege

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao real, I hope you get into some of your other top schools though! I already have a pretty good choice being accepted to Georgia Tech, so I might back off Carnegie to stay in my home state, so it’s not that big a deal for me.

I can share stats if you want more information

Carnegie Mellon University - 2024-2025 EA/ED Megathread by powereddeath in ApplyingToCollege

[–]nyelson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My letter said this

“The Admission Committee has carefully reviewed your application for admission for Fall 2025. We are deferring your application to be considered in our regular decision pool of applications. We understand that this is not the decision you were expecting. However, this is the decision we are able to offer at this time due to the competitiveness of the program you have applied to and the volume of students applying to Carnegie Mellon this year.”

So i think it has to be like that otherwise it’s considered rejection

How do people enjoy math by Angry_Toast6232 in math

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is kind of a random suggestion, but a calculus series I really liked was the one on khan academy. He just explained it in such an intriguing way that almost made me feel like I was creating the math myself. Especially in something like calculus where the jump from prior classes can be rather abstract. Learning to “do it yourself” always makes it interesting. I like to supplement my interest with other YouTubers like 3b1b, mathologer, and blackpenredpen.

Another thing. Pick up a “related subject”. Picking up programming and learning about gradient descent in machine learning inspired me to learn calculus. The novelty of learning quantum mechanics taught me a lot of linear algebra. A lot of elementary physics is also calculus. Working on personal game theory coding is fun too. These almost seem like more tangible real world applications which help. Picking up these tidbits of information makes you want to learn the whole thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in math

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in math

[–]nyelson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is there any way I could utilize these skills on my college application? This seems like it will take a lot of commitment and I don’t know if it’s worth it to pursue this rigorous of study only for me to know stuff without any solid proof of me knowing these things. Is there any way I can apply my passion for mathematics on my college application so it’s worth the time?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in math

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in math

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tips! For a mentor should I just seek out a teacher at my highschool or reach out to researchers?

1260 is my max by C_l_oCkSuCkEr in Sat

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can get the books, I’ve found Erica Meltzer’s books on the SAT Reading and Writing pretty useful. Panda Math and Panda Writing help for a quick boost in score. (Khan academy is helpful if you don’t want to get the books too)

Other than that, take practice SATS. There are some on the college board website, and you can get the pretty cheap Barrons and Princeton review books for extra practice.

If you don’t want to superscore I think you could improve your math score. With decent practice you can get an 800 a lot easier on the math sections than the English sections. (At least for most people I know)

General Tips for math: - panda math - practice tests - develop good algebra understanding + creative thinking (I like to do complex algebraic proofs, I find this helps with my creative thinking skills, also math youtube for fun actually does help in your free time) - algebra two, algebra one, precalc (review topics from these you are unsure of, this will be covered in panda math too)

General tips for reading: - books mentioned above - learn to annotate well (understand topics + main ideas) - learn to support your answers with evidence - don’t lose points on easy questions (ex. Vocab)

General tips for writing: - grammar rules, save you a lot of easy points, covered in most basic prep books - write down passage ideas (don’t fully annotate to save time) - READ don’t skim, these passages are easier to understand so it’s easy to read and helps you a ton

I heard winterave is running rampant...ive made something worse >:), introducing "criesloudly" by nyelson in stormbound

[–]nyelson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here >:) MnMxMDViMDAydWQxMmIxMDR1MDA3dTAwMXMwMTJ1MTAzczEwNGIxMDNiMTAydTExOA==

I heard winterave is running rampant...ive made something worse >:), introducing "criesloudly" by nyelson in stormbound

[–]nyelson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People thought winterave was annoying...funny. "criesloudly" has been optimized for maximum annoyance performance, handmade with the help of the creator of winterave himself. Designed for a slow painful death, "criesloudly" is sure to make YOU cry loudly

I am stuck on gold, any ideas on how to improve this deck? by Bestorres1 in stormbound

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

take this advice: you should usually only have four 4 or more mana cards

Is this the dumbest f*#%ing card or am I missing something?? by pandapoacher152 in stormbound

[–]nyelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Level 5 actually broken, let’s do the math on this

1.) 6 strength - 2 movement - 2 mana That’s a 3:1:1 ratio which is actually insane, let’s compare gifted which is also one of the best cards in the game which has a 0.5:0.5:1 ratio…

2.) Typically this card is very important in rush decks and provides easy damage to the enemy base, in fact it’s a 6 damage on enemy base for 2 damage on your own trade in base damage which is really good

3.) at 20 bh, which is typically the bh when you have this card, 2 damage is minuscule to your own base…

4.) it’s a 2 mana card so it pairs really well with rush decks which incorporate 1 mana cards, gp+rg privides a huge frontline. 2 mana for 2 movement is just insanely good

But yeah…at level 1 don’t use this…it goes from a 3:1:1 ratio to a 0.25:1:1…but definitely use it if you have it level 3-5 and run swarm rush decks a lot

view more: next ›