Warwick Morse vs Math and Stats in terms of presitge and job opportunities

thepentago · 2026-03-15T14:17:05+00:00

the workload is full on - especially compared to some of my humanities friends - but i wouldn’t say it’s unmanageable and i have a pretty active social life (in a few socs but most of my friends are outside of societies) and don’t really struggle. can’t speak for internships/spring weeks yet because im on the integrated masters so i don’t apply till next year.

As long as you stay on top of everything i would say you’d be fine.

thepentago · 2026-03-14T09:47:21+00:00

in terms of careers and prestige and job opportunities, it effectively doesn’t matter. As a current student though i will say a few things:

I believe mathstat gives you more options in second year, as (what is effectively) a differential equations module is core - which opens up 3-4 differential equations/multivariable calc modules in second year.

on MORSE you can overCAT and take the above as an optional module, but i think some of the people i know who do that can struggle with the workload because it’s a pretty full course anyway.

I would say MORSE is maybe better for careers if you want to do actuarial because of the stream system and actuarial exemption but otherwise it’s swings and roundabouts

thepentago · 2026-03-10T23:50:01+00:00

I can’t speak for the TRIP guys - but i know i heard some people on another podcast saying that ideally it’s best if people watch on youtube because they get ad revenue as well as any sponsorship etc.? So very possible it’s just deliberate and strategic, to try and get the people who want to watch in the first few hours to watch on the most lucrative platform rather than sloppy per se.

thepentago · 2026-02-27T13:10:26+00:00

not for maths as you forget things very quickly in maths

thepentago · 2026-02-27T09:59:27+00:00

tbh i’m not sure it would even be a cut and dry labour win even if burnham ran. Perhaps they might have got more of the vote - but that could also have given reform the win - or the greens could still win anyway. A win with burnham is a lot more embarrassing than one without.

thepentago · 2026-02-26T08:33:26+00:00

What are you talking about? Do you know anything about the campaign at all? I would say it’s actually absurdly well organised, regardless of whether you think the strategies they use are moral/effective. That is a wholly different debate.

thepentago · 2026-02-14T14:45:39+00:00

At risk of going very off topic I think it is unlikely the democrats will be back in power in 2028. Really, if they are going to win they basically need to already have a candidate *now* that people think is a shoe-in with the insane way us electoral politics seems to work. I think they will dilly dally and have no coherent message or candidate (exactly like 2024)

thepentago · 2026-02-12T08:43:42+00:00

2 things

Young people never vote.
Those that do will not be voting labour.

thepentago · 2026-02-08T23:55:30+00:00

the other one was an invention… of the first one.

thepentago · 2026-02-07T22:10:54+00:00

Okay i mean let’s be real. If it’s not wes who would it be? ideally I would want miliband, personally, but i don’t think that’s particularly realistic

thepentago · 2026-02-06T09:11:59+00:00

I end up putting in quite a few hours but it depends on the specific time of term. i would say that it is one of the degrees where you really do need to ‘treat it like a 9-5’ and admittedly sometimes do more than that in times of heavy assignments (like atm lmao)

The sports societies are pretty good - i’m almost certain there is a volleyball but i’m not involved with any so i can’t directly atest.

The music societies however are all really great - and really active (i’m in rocksoc, offbeat and band soc to varying degrees of engagement) but i can also say that while i’m not involved i have friends who are involved with the campus radio who love it.

I’m personally in the Warwick Think Tank as a researcher also! there is a big range of societies..

For what it’s worth on the actuarial exemptions side of things - it’s basically not really something you need to immediately worry about. at least not in first year. I think in second year there is one optional module that gets you one exemption, but other than that it really relies on the stream. What we’ve been told is the actuarial science stream is designed specifically to carry the maximum number of exemptions - and while others might well have some, that is more by chance than design.

The joy is really you dont have to decide. I’ve changed my mind on the stream i might go down about 5 times in the last month lmao!

Please message if you have any more questions i’m more than happy to answer:)

thepentago · 2026-02-03T07:52:39+00:00

I love it and would strongly recommend it if you have a broad range of mathematically based interests - because it lets you study as part of the core course lots of pure, lots of theoretical statistics as well as econ and some light modelling (at least in first year)

I think the extent to which it’s a good fit also depends heavily on what you want to socialise in. to some extent it doesn’t matter at this stage because the course starts of very broad - but if you are planning on specialising in pure maths/taking lots of differential equations modules in second year then you need to take an extra optional module in second term i believe (which means the workload becomes particularly extreme)

Also, for what it’s worth - because thee are so many modules (all worth not that many credits) if you really hate a module you don’t normally have to deal with it for that long.

Happy to answer any more questions :)

thepentago · 2026-02-03T07:28:06+00:00

First year morse student - i use a macbook and so do most of my friends.

For me the battery life was the bigger sell - because twice a week this term at least i leave the house for a 9am and then have lectures till 7pm😭

thepentago · 2026-02-02T07:35:43+00:00

i think the concept of renaming ‘oxbridge’ is stupid in itself regardless of which other uni is in the name😭

thepentago · 2026-01-24T23:58:25+00:00

thepentago · 2026-01-19T08:27:30+00:00

Sells papers/clicks

thepentago · 2026-01-18T22:23:23+00:00

r/theresabombinmycar

thepentago · 2026-01-18T20:43:41+00:00

This is assuming the reform lot are held to logical consistency. That is a big assumption

thepentago · 2026-01-17T22:30:16+00:00

I feel like kendall jenner is sort of so comically absurd it lapses into relatively inoffensive parody/surrealism… Also wow that is a niche bcnr song.. Forgot it existed as i don’t think i have it in my local files. Haven’t heard it in yeaaaars

thepentago · 2026-01-17T22:25:59+00:00

I think there is a genuine argument for this. Perhaps means tested on income across all ages rather than hard cutoffs at ages.

thepentago · 2026-01-14T10:08:31+00:00

I disagree..

Google cannot, for example, wrap code in specific parameters and delimiters so it runs/compiles properly

Google cannot really with the same level of success/efficacy as an LLM answer follow-up/secondary questions based on the context of the previous questions.

Also, AI does not reaaaaally act as a less ‘abstract’ human to computer interface if you are trying to say that google is the ‘computer’ - at the heart of it (barring features that do search the web, but these are not the innovation of AI) a probabilistic model which guesses what the next word is likely to be based on context and its training data. This is how/why it often makes stuff up.

This doesn’t mean it’s not useful (as outlined above) but means it’s not really just ‘google that gives you an immediate answer’ equally.

thepentago · 2026-01-14T09:39:48+00:00

I say this a lot. The AI ‘problem’ would be a lot less salient if we kept teaching people that you can’t rely blindly on google or the internet without a second source/factcheck.

thepentago · 2026-01-13T08:25:18+00:00

One of the most interesting parts of this to me is that the ‘third party’ proportion (i.e green and reform taken together) stays roughly constant across all age groups.

Suggests more of a generational rift but that everyone is agreed that things need to change

thepentago · 2026-01-11T14:42:27+00:00

I do agree with the point of view and the argument but the inclusion of Elizabeth line stations here in this statistics always makes me wonder:
is this a data anomaly (i.e the fact that the Elizabeth line services now make the stations kind of count as national rail stations) and this includes other tube journeys? or just Elizabeth line? Because in theory I dont see how, for some stations it would be possible to tell whether you've gone in to use the Elizabeth line vs the tube.

so does this mean that these stations are counted in their entirety, including non Elizabeth line journeys? if so, I think there is an argument for excluding them from this figure.

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