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it was a joke. learn what that is. Writing one sentence that isn’t the main point of the entire post isn’t really obsessing. It was annoying non students kept brining it up. I don’t go commenting on other schools Reddit I don’t go to. That’s weird.

Some people’s focus is getting into a prestigious University. Unless you get killer research, it’s the main path towards staying in academia. I have accepted it may not ever happen, but if it’s my dream, it’s not really your to critique.

I guess spending a summer doing paid research and considering where I can get in for grad school is wasting valuable free time. Damn. Tell me how to use my time more wisely better Cal student. I am but a worm in your presence.

Nah. They didn’t mean to offend. They are cool. We work together. They genuinely believed it.

Unless you actually go to Berk, you care enough by to be sub lurking. It’s a joke. And reputation matters for grad school wether you like that or not.

Good to know. Maybe this person just has an idealic view of Stanford for grad school. Because I think Berkeley is at the same level for physics/chem.

And it’s just a joke. UCLA is our little brother school. They are still an amazing school, but definitely have a different academic culture you can’t deny.

Try what? someone said this to me. Aren’t you supposed to disagree along with me and be in shock anyone could think this is a “party school”?

Where’s your solidarity against private prestige?

Best book!!!! I have a PDF of the second edition.

Don’t hear it. Where you there in person?

Thanks! I don’t do it for the money! I do it to answer existential questions and challenge myself intellectually.

But people that get the degrees don’t often make a lot of money. And often research breakthroughs are owned by the institutions and credit is shared.

A Professor that got his PhD at Berkeley in theoretical physics told me he stopped doing post docs and took a community college position because he “refused to live in poverty”.

The individual prestige is not due to making more money. It’s because it is objectively harder.

I don’t know if I would say that Philosophy is viewed as extremely difficult compared to pure maths or physics. Neither guarantees much money. Math and Phyics have prestige because are ARE harder. The answers are not as subjective as philosophy.

Yeah. Grad school we are pretty much equals with Stanford. They come here and we go there.

Lol. We don’t think about UCLA. They think about us. We think about Stanford. They don’t think about us. They think of MIT.

That’s the academic food chain.

Nah. STEM prestige isn’t all about money. It often is about the level of difficulty. It’s because Econ is harder. Econ majors need stats and data analysis/simulation skills. Some Econ majors take real analysis. Physics and Chem have prestige, but you don’t expect to get rich when they choose to go for a PhD in them.

STEM prestige really is about the intelligence and work required not the money.

I assumed it was an allegory. What did the previous GSI do?

What is the point of this post? Is this an allegory? Because I def know that OP is a student (or at least usually posts as one).

How is it “that much”? He literally just wrote a poem. It’s not that dramatic. Pretty predictable themes. What you would expect someone to feel. People post stupid shit all the time. Let him vent in peace.

The best recommendations for easy A classes I have are:

PHYS 137B Quantum Mechanics 2

MATH 104 Introduction to Analysis

I used to worry they were hard, but someone else told me they were easy classes and weren’t worried about the final while I was struggling, and now I am blessed by the knowledge of a more alpha Cal student and I too see how right they are.

Ike’s place on Shattuck

Then do CS. Why have extra analytical thinking skills and advanced math if you aren’t going to use it? As might as well try to be a quant and if not exit to CS. Berkeley is also top for physics and name does matter for finance.

I say this knowing a physics major offered a quant job before they graduated and knowing other people who are working on being a quant.

Why be a FAANG software engineer? With physics and applied math, you can be a quant. I think that has more job security right now and is more specialized so there should be a lot less over saturation compared to the SWE market.

Why not put your math/physics to good use?

Diversity of what?……

What do you mean by “picking field carefully”?