So, this Christmas break, I'll be filling out college aplications.
Some of them really aren't bad. Others require me to write 6 different essays.
WTF?
I can understand an essay, or even two, but 6?
So, this break I have 3027r036r5492863r5987*10^23074037
essays to write.
Almost makes me wish we just had entrance exams instead.
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Re: College Applications
What college or universities are you going for?Beware the talking cat wrote:So, this Christmas break, I'll be filling out college aplications.
Some of them really aren't bad. Others require me to write 6 different essays.
WTF?
I can understand an essay, or even two, but 6?
So, this break I have 3027r036r5492863r5987*10^23074037
essays to write.
Almost makes me wish we just had entrance exams instead.
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Well, if you think that essays are a pain in the rump now, then wait a few years. I cannot count how many essays and the like I have written while in college. However, I am an engineering major going to liberal arts college, which kind of changes things. I hope you can get into whatever school you want to go to.
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hmmm you have to write essays to even enter universities?
what type of higher education are you aiming for?
Extremely highly rated ones or something?
seriously, that sounds ridiculous, i remember only having to write one A4 page essay to six universities, two of them asked me for a personal interview, the rest just gave me the grades i requirements to qualify for those courses.
I thought that was complicated......
what type of higher education are you aiming for?
Extremely highly rated ones or something?
seriously, that sounds ridiculous, i remember only having to write one A4 page essay to six universities, two of them asked me for a personal interview, the rest just gave me the grades i requirements to qualify for those courses.
I thought that was complicated......
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go to an engineering university.
The only entrance exam you will have to do, is look though and find the correct formulas and information in the Engineering Entrance Exam reference books and voila.
engineering yay.
reminds me of a joke,
there were once a scientist, a mathematician and an Engineer.
They were given the task of finding the mass of a red ball suspended in a glass container but without touching the red ball or taking it out.
The scientist weighed the container, then tested the solution of the liquid to find the density. From there he used a light spectrometers to find out what material the red ball was constructed.
Using laser measurement he took the dimensions of the ball to find the mass of it.
The mathematician, took the measurement of the containment of the liquid and ball, to find the volume, it then measure how high the ball floated in the liquid. Taking the establish laws of physics to the formulas applied he determined the mass of the red ball within four decimal places.
The Engineer took a tea break and watched the scientist and mathematician work with amusement, before taking out the "Reference book of Red Balls" looked up the serial number of the Red Ball and found it's mass.
*************
A businessman needed to employ a quantitative type person.
He wasn't sure if he should get a mathematician, an engineer,
or an applied mathematician. As it happened, all the
applicants were male. The businessman devised a test.
The mathematician came first. Miss How, the administrative
assistant took him into the hall. At the end of the hall,
lounging on a couch, was a beautiful woman. Miss How said,
"You may only go half the distance at a time. When you
reach the end, you may kiss our model."
The mathematician explained how he would never get there in
a finite number of iterations and politely excused himself.
Then came the engineer. He quickly bounded halfway down the
hall, then halfway again, and so on. Soon he declared he was
well within accepted error tolerance and grabbed the beautiful
woman and kissed her.
Finally it was the applied mathematician's turn. Miss How
explained the rules. The applied mathematician listened
politely, then grabbed Miss How and gave her a big smooch.
"What was that about?" she cried.
"Well, you see I'm an applied mathematician. If I can't
solve the problem, I change it!"
**************
An engineer, a mathematician, and a computer programmer are driving
down the road when the car they are in gets a flat tire. The engineer
says that they should buy a new car. The mathematician says they
should sell the old tire and buy a new one. The computer programmer
says they should drive the car around the block and see if the tire
fixes itself.
************
A programmer had been missing from work for over a week when finally someone noticed and called the cops. They went round to his flat and broke down the door. They found him dead in the still running shower with an empty bottle of shampoo next to his body. Apparently he'd been washing his hair.
The instructions on the bottle said:
1. Wet hair
2. Apply shampoo
3. Lather
4. Rinse
5. Repeat
.....ok i'll stop now.
The only entrance exam you will have to do, is look though and find the correct formulas and information in the Engineering Entrance Exam reference books and voila.
engineering yay.
reminds me of a joke,
there were once a scientist, a mathematician and an Engineer.
They were given the task of finding the mass of a red ball suspended in a glass container but without touching the red ball or taking it out.
The scientist weighed the container, then tested the solution of the liquid to find the density. From there he used a light spectrometers to find out what material the red ball was constructed.
Using laser measurement he took the dimensions of the ball to find the mass of it.
The mathematician, took the measurement of the containment of the liquid and ball, to find the volume, it then measure how high the ball floated in the liquid. Taking the establish laws of physics to the formulas applied he determined the mass of the red ball within four decimal places.
The Engineer took a tea break and watched the scientist and mathematician work with amusement, before taking out the "Reference book of Red Balls" looked up the serial number of the Red Ball and found it's mass.
*************
A businessman needed to employ a quantitative type person.
He wasn't sure if he should get a mathematician, an engineer,
or an applied mathematician. As it happened, all the
applicants were male. The businessman devised a test.
The mathematician came first. Miss How, the administrative
assistant took him into the hall. At the end of the hall,
lounging on a couch, was a beautiful woman. Miss How said,
"You may only go half the distance at a time. When you
reach the end, you may kiss our model."
The mathematician explained how he would never get there in
a finite number of iterations and politely excused himself.
Then came the engineer. He quickly bounded halfway down the
hall, then halfway again, and so on. Soon he declared he was
well within accepted error tolerance and grabbed the beautiful
woman and kissed her.
Finally it was the applied mathematician's turn. Miss How
explained the rules. The applied mathematician listened
politely, then grabbed Miss How and gave her a big smooch.
"What was that about?" she cried.
"Well, you see I'm an applied mathematician. If I can't
solve the problem, I change it!"
**************
An engineer, a mathematician, and a computer programmer are driving
down the road when the car they are in gets a flat tire. The engineer
says that they should buy a new car. The mathematician says they
should sell the old tire and buy a new one. The computer programmer
says they should drive the car around the block and see if the tire
fixes itself.
************
A programmer had been missing from work for over a week when finally someone noticed and called the cops. They went round to his flat and broke down the door. They found him dead in the still running shower with an empty bottle of shampoo next to his body. Apparently he'd been washing his hair.
The instructions on the bottle said:
1. Wet hair
2. Apply shampoo
3. Lather
4. Rinse
5. Repeat
.....ok i'll stop now.
"Please note, we have added a consequence for failure.Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official test record, followed by death. Good luck."
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Mostly, but even for the state schools, I have to write essays for the honors colleges and scholarships.onizuka-gto wrote:what type of higher education are you aiming for?
Extremely highly rated ones or something?
Ironically, the higher up colleges tend to require fewer essays because they don't have separate honors and scholarship forms. They just have a single application with only an essay or two.
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Wow. Six essays. In the Aussie system, you get a university entrance rank based on your Year 12 scores. And assuming you get a high enough rank, and did the right 1 or 2 subjects (and it's not an arts course where you have a portfolio or whatever), you're in. I think they have a more demanding process for if you fail the original entrance score and need to go for a second-round offer, though.
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Be careful what you wish for...you do not want to be caught in an every-man-for-himself among OVER 9000^368^12967^67874 screaming Chinese students.Beware the talking cat wrote:
Almost makes me wish we just had entrance exams instead.
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