Mathematics Applicants 2012

b) be in the middle of nowhere......

I'm in the Midlands though, so even further on. Kents a four hour drive (with the current roadworks anyway), and I can get to UEA in under 2 hours Nearest would be London but I just don't want to go there

What kind of actuarial work does your mum tend to do? I'm more interested in investment currently, but I obviously don't need to specialise just yet

I wouldnt say UEA was in the middle of nowhere, it's on the outskirts of Norwich, less than an hours walk from the city centre, much quicker by bus/cycle, which is closer than some campus unis. Norwich is a medium sized city, my cousin goes there and says the student life there is pretty good.

Over a week ago I got a letter in the post from Lancaster asking me to attend a visit day which will probably ultimately mean I get an offer, but one hasn't come yet...
Does anyone else have an idea when I may be getting an offer? Or is anyone in the same situation?

Over a week ago I got a letter in the post from Lancaster asking me to attend a visit day which will probably ultimately mean I get an offer, but one hasn't come yet...
Does anyone else have an idea when I may be getting an offer? Or is anyone in the same situation?

me and someone else are.

did anyone by any chance recieve an email from warwick today

How did your interview go? When was it?

Thought I'd share with you all a question which my teacher described as his favourite in our TMA (teacher marked assessment - basically formal marked homework) booklet.

$\mathrm{Find\ }\int^1_0 \frac{x^4(1-x)^4}{1+x^2}\ dx. \mathrm{Why\ is\ this\ mathematically\ amusing?}$

I would be intrigued...but all I can see is jumble of symbols...is it just my computer doing that ?_?

EDIT: Oh great! NOW it decides to appear as an actual integral ¬_¬...false alarm =P

Yeah, sorry, I couldn't get the latex to work at first. I was trying to make the integral sign bigger but it was messing it up.

Thought I'd share with you all a question which my teacher described as his favourite in our TMA (teacher marked assessment - basically formal marked homework) booklet.

$\mathrm{Find\ }\int^1_0 \dfrac{x^4(1-x)^4}{1+x^2}\ dx.\ \mathrm{Why\ is\ this\ mathematically\ amusing?}$

$\int^1_0 \dfrac{x^4(1-x)^4}{1+x^2}\ dx =\int x^6-4x^5+5x^4-4x^2+4-\frac{4}{1+x^2}dx=22/7-\pi$

shows the classic approximation

Thought I'd share with you all a question which my teacher described as his favourite in our TMA (teacher marked assessment - basically formal marked homework) booklet.

$\mathrm{Find\ }\int^1_0 \dfrac{x^4(1-x)^4}{1+x^2}\ dx.\ \mathrm{Why\ is\ this\ mathematically\ amusing?}$

well it started well when I was told that they are interviewing less this year than any other year lol. Then I feel like my interviews went well but im apprehensive to say that. They kinda followed a pattern of easy questions to harder ones and the prompts increased. The last question in my second interview required quite a few hints but i got there eventually. Saying that, I would not be surprised if i was rejected lol. Oh and the people were SOOO nice.

My interview was on monday (the 5th). I thought it went ok, the first one not so great, but the second one a bit better. Its hard to say though whether I was good enough.

What about you?

well it started well when I was told that they are interviewing less this year than any other year lol. Then I feel like my interviews went well but im apprehensive to say that. They kinda followed a pattern of easy questions to harder ones and the prompts increased. The last question in my second interview required quite a few hints but i got there eventually. Saying that, I would not be surprised if i was rejected lol. Oh and the people were SOOO nice.

When will imperial start giving offers to many people? Does anyone know something based on last year's dates?

They've already started for G100. I got my offer on 14th November and a few other people at school also have offers (about half of all the people who applied for maths).

I sent off my UCAS on 4th October.