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I think that's sort of what he's talking about. Had you not had the experience of calculus and diff eq at a university and your only exposure to it was at Stan
by somethoughts 4y ago
I think that's sort of what he's talking about. Had you not had the experience of calculus and diff eq at a university and your only exposure to it was at Stanford with middling grades - perhaps it'd probably lead to more existential questions of whether you really wanted to do STEM in the first place.
- cozzyd 4y agoRight, I quickly made peace with being a mediocre student at Stanford (and, still ended up getting into MIT for a physics PhD, where I was also a mediocre student but by then I didn't care :) ). I think the people who probably suffer the most at are probably premeds, where it really might be easier to get into med school by going to an "easier" school.
- strikelaserclaw 4y agoIf there are dull students at Stanford, i am 100% sure they are not taking advanced math classes or higher physics classes.
- ghaff 4y agoIn the grand scheme of things, I was probably pretty good at math as I got through a rigorous Mech E program. But I struggled with the more math intensive classes (Fluids/Navier-Stokes) and I'm pretty sure I could have dealt with an undergrad in physics/math--much less a grad program--about as well as I could have flown by flapping my arms in the air. But things ended up fine.