Maths Uni Chat

Quantum Mechanics makes no sense. I am so ****ed.

It's rubbish. I had the third sheet due in today, but I haven't finished it. I just can't bring myself to look at the last 3 questions (and the notes I haven't read).

Reply 5501

ForGreatJustice

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QM is lovely, though sometimes I feel like i'm alone with this view...

Reply 5502

SimonM

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Original post by ForGreatJustice

QM is lovely, though sometimes I feel like i'm alone with this view...

Nope. I've really gotten into QM and Methods this term... thanks in part to excellent supervisors, but also to a more broad view about what I like in maths.

Reply 5503

Meteorshower

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I love QM, but them i'm a dirty physicist at heart.

Out of interest, are the maths based QM courses people here do (as opposed to physics) very much solely focusing on the mathematical side of things?

Reply 5504

assmaster

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So. Much. Snow.
Trains out of Edinburgh cancelled, and the remaining ones delayed, the journey itself took 15 minutes longer than it should've from the weather, got to Durham to find OH YES MORE SNOW, battled to my house via a friend's house (for a cup of tea and a change of socks) only to walk through a deceptively deep puddle two minutes after leaving their house thus negating all usefulness of the sock change, eventually got to my house to find a two foot high block of snow in front of the steps to my house, and that gutters had fallen off the roof from the weight of the snow.

Lecture attendance tomorrow is looking unlikely.

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Slumpy

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Original post by assmaster

So. Much. Snow.
Trains out of Edinburgh cancelled, and the remaining ones delayed, the journey itself took 15 minutes longer than it should've from the weather, got to Durham to find OH YES MORE SNOW, battled to my house via a friend's house (for a cup of tea and a change of socks) only to walk through a deceptively deep puddle two minutes after leaving their house thus negating all usefulness of the sock change, eventually got to my house to find a two foot high block of snow in front of the steps to my house, and that gutters had fallen off the roof from the weight of the snow.

Lecture attendance tomorrow is looking unlikely.

You were in Edinburgh?
Please tell me trains going northwards aren't getting cancelled...

Reply 5506

assmaster

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Original post by Slumpy

You were in Edinburgh?
Please tell me trains going northwards aren't getting cancelled...

Yeah, I went to Edinburgh to see Vampire Weekend - they played last night.
Trains going south were getting cancelled. Going up was fine... as long as you don't mind staying there.

Reply 5507

Meteorshower

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I was in Edinburgh today for a debating competition that was cancelled, trains were fine pretty much everywhere *shrugs*

Reply 5508

Slumpy

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Original post by assmaster

Yeah, I went to Edinburgh to see Vampire Weekend - they played last night.
Trains going south were getting cancelled. Going up was fine... as long as you don't mind staying there.

Original post by Meteorshower

I was in Edinburgh today for a debating competition that was cancelled, trains were fine pretty much everywhere *shrugs*

Cool.
Cheers, my going home is somewhat dependent on trains still going next tuesday...

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Oh I Really Don't Care

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lol. Reliable but slow coach?

Reply 5510

Slumpy

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Original post by DeanK22

lol. Reliable but slow coach?

Already have (very cheap) train tickets, hence I wouldn't like to change my method of going home now!

Reply 5511

Oh I Really Don't Care

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The end is nigh - vacation beckons.

Reply 5512

qgujxj39

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Original post by DeanK22

The end is nigh - vacation beckons.

sadface.jpg

I genuinely don't want to go home at all.

Reply 5513

ambience

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Original post by ste0731

Poor people will get grants to cover everything, it's the middle class as always that get pooped on. But some people have to suffer, thats the way life is.

Your first sentence is amazing. State-paid means-tested grants are available to poorer students for maintenance (and rightly so). But there are no such grants for tuition fees (although there should be).

A swingeingly progressive income tax plus mandatory maintenance and tuition fee grants for everyone, would be better.

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ambience

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Original post by Glutamic Acid

That's brought up my phobia of a "lack of closing bracket". In an examples class or lecture too many opening brackets makes me itch to get up and draw one on the board.

What's an examples class?? (Sorry, but I don't know!)

Reply 5515

Glutamic Acid

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Original post by ambience

What's an examples class?? (Sorry, but I don't know!)

Extra classes put on by our college (John's) usually given by teaching fellows.

Reply 5516

anonanon123123

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SKI TRIP SKI TRIP SKI TRIP WOOOOOOOO

lowercase stuff

Reply 5517

v-zero

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Liquid Nitrogen is awesome.

Reply 5518

ambience

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Original post by Glutamic Acid

Extra classes put on by our college (John's) usually given by teaching fellows.

Thanks! Do you have a class on each example sheet that's given out at lectures? Or are the examples different but on the same material, i.e. on 6 hours worth of lectures?

I haven't heard of anything like that at Robinson or Lucy Cavendish :frown:

How many colleges run example classes? They sound very useful, especially if usually run by teaching fellows. I'd wondered what someone meant when she referred to a notation that was used at Trinity :smile: