Class of 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Elijah05 said:
I finally just got my 1st acceptance!! now i wont feel bad if i post in here again lol. Man its finally nice to not have to worry anymore about the 5 other pending decisions i have. Who cares what happens im in at a school im happy with!!🙂. Theres no way im reading through 200 pages of this thread that i missed, but im sure you all have been accepted long before i was so congrats! I see ksmi and dw are cleaning up 🙂. 3 post-int waitlists really had me scared there for a bit.

edit: oh i forgot to say what school..it was UW Madison. And i got a kitty too for my son!! kinda random but w/e love kitties!😛
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Congrats!!!!
 
Congrats Elijah!! Must take a lot of pressure off of you. What a great time to happen, too. Now you can really enjoy the holidays.👍
 
Elijah05 said:
I finally just got my 1st acceptance!! now i wont feel bad if i post in here again lol. Man its finally nice to not have to worry anymore about the 5 other pending decisions i have. Who cares what happens im in at a school im happy with!!🙂. Theres no way im reading through 200 pages of this thread that i missed, but im sure you all have been accepted long before i was so congrats! I see ksmi and dw are cleaning up 🙂. 3 post-int waitlists really had me scared there for a bit.

edit: oh i forgot to say what school..it was UW Madison. And i got a kitty too for my son!! kinda random but w/e love kitties!😛
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i am BEYOND excited for you!!!!!!!! congratulations, you really deserved it.
 
Had to pick up a night shift tonight 7 to 3... got stuck with it after i had to quickly trade to go to NY a few weeks ago for a mini vaca.

Who's gonna be up with me?
 
Pedie Packs said:
Had to pick up a night shift tonight 7 to 3... got stuck with it after i had to quickly trade to go to NY a few weeks ago for a mini vaca.

Who's gonna be up with me?
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Not I! However, I'll probably be up until midnight or so studying.
 
okay that's not so bad haha... I'm gonna be so tired tmrw 🙁

I feel like Brooklyn
 
Pedie Packs said:
Had to pick up a night shift tonight 7 to 3... got stuck with it after i had to quickly trade to go to NY a few weeks ago for a mini vaca.

Who's gonna be up with me?
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I'm going to be up for awhile finishing this final paper... I have to promise myself I will fix my sleep schedule for next year, or I'm going to be in trouble. 😴
 
SteinUmStein said:
I'm going to be up for awhile finishing this final paper... I have to promise myself I will fix my sleep schedule for next year, or I'm going to be in trouble. 😴
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Same! I think I'll figure it out soon enough... it's now or never really. It's not like we'll be able to snooze much in med school.
 
Okay guys, don't cheat. Here's a mental teaser:

The Monty Hall Problem

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?"
 
Elijah05 said:
I finally just got my 1st acceptance!! now i wont feel bad if i post in here again lol. Man its finally nice to not have to worry anymore about the 5 other pending decisions i have. Who cares what happens im in at a school im happy with!!🙂. Theres no way im reading through 200 pages of this thread that i missed, but im sure you all have been accepted long before i was so congrats! I see ksmi and dw are cleaning up 🙂. 3 post-int waitlists really had me scared there for a bit.

edit: oh i forgot to say what school..it was UW Madison. And i got a kitty too for my son!! kinda random but w/e love kitties!😛
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Congrats. Also, didn't know you have a son.

brooklynblunder said:
That's true. I think our Arts and Sciences College 2200 people graduate and had around 20 Phi Beta Kappa's (they get special stars on the program). I know around 8 of those though, and they all had at least one A-s, so maybe around 10 4.0's? Apparently the girl from our school that did MTV real world (Parisa) had a 4.0.

If you add the business school, I think we would get a lot more 4.0s. Those kids are intense
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ksmi and I don't deal in -'s. :laugh:

Elijah05 said:
UW madison...i forgot to say lol😛



go badgers😛...actually im more excited to go to some packer games. I think greenbay is like a 2 hr drive or so not far. My goal for med school is get packer season tickets. Since the rams left cali i miss having a team...even then they sucked. And dont say oakland...they dont even deserve to be called a NFL team.😛
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49ers?

ksmi117 said:
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:laugh:
 
lstone13 said:
Okay guys, don't cheat. Here's a mental teaser:

The Monty Hall Problem

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?"
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watching 21?

(I'm not answering since I already know how it works.)
 
lstone13 said:
Okay guys, don't cheat. Here's a mental teaser:

The Monty Hall Problem

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?"
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50-50 at that point, no?

EDIT: im sure its more complicated than that, so i apologize for sounding dumb
 
sdguy2008 said:
50-50 at that point, no?

EDIT: im sure its more complicated than that, so i apologize for sounding dumb
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Nope! And don't apologize for your guess! After all, once the problem was first published (and its answer), it caused loads of controversy until it was proven through computer models.
 
lstone13 said:
Okay guys, don't cheat. Here's a mental teaser:

The Monty Hall Problem

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?"
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i think it is to your advantage to switch, since before your chances of being right were only 1/3 and by switching you'd pick the car 2/3 of the time
 
one of my friends going into finance told me this brain teaser that she got asked in her interviews a few times:

say you have two ropes of the same length, and you know each rope takes exactly one hour to burn. however, the ropes are not of uniform or identical consistency, so they burn at varying and different rates all along their length. with only these two ropes, how can you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
 
jla314 said:
i think it is to your advantage to switch, since before your chances of being right were only 1/3 and by switching you'd pick the car 2/3 of the time
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Yeah!!! You're the winner! 🙂
 
lstone13 said:
Okay guys, don't cheat. Here's a mental teaser:

The Monty Hall Problem

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?"
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You switch. Obviously, the host is going to open a door with a goat. It does not change the probability that you got a goat, which is 2/3.
 
jla314 said:
i think it is to your advantage to switch, since before your chances of being right were only 1/3 and by switching you'd pick the car 2/3 of the time
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i dont really understand the logic here. we know that the car is not in door 3, therefore eliminating that as a possibility all together. its either in door 1 or door 2 at this point

EDIT: nevermind. just had to think about it some more
 
Skipped the last 6 pages or so, let me know if I missed anything important.

Though I do believe a congratulations are in order for Elijah 🙂

Anyone else following Copenhagen right now? Such a sh*tshow.
 
sdguy2008 said:
i dont really understand the logic here. we know that the car is not in door 3, therefore eliminating that as a possibility all together. its either in door 1 or door 2 at this point

EDIT: nevermind. just had to think about it some more
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Since there are two goats, and you can only pick one, the host will always be able to show you a goat behind the door he picks. It doesn't change anything.

Edit: In case anyone else can't figure it out.
 
EulerianCircuit said:
Since there are two goats, and you can only pick one, the host will always be able to show you a goat behind the door he picks. It doesn't change anything.

Edit: In case anyone else can't figure it out.
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i still don't get it. le sigh.
 
jla314 said:
one of my friends going into finance told me this brain teaser that she got asked in her interviews a few times:

say you have two ropes of the same length, and you know each rope takes exactly one hour to burn. however, the ropes are not of uniform or identical consistency, so they burn at varying and different rates all along their length. with only these two ropes, how can you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
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i'm gonna think about this one for a while

EulerianCircuit said:
Since there are two goats, and you can only pick one, the host will always be able to show you a goat behind the door he picks. It doesn't change anything.

Edit: In case anyone else can't figure it out.
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Right, that's what I think too. I've actually heard of this problem before, and apparently, the answer is that you should switch. I still don't agree with that answer, obviously.
 
ok so lets label the doors 1 (goat) 2 (goat) 3 (car)!

case 1: say you pick door 1 originally. the host gets rid of door 2 and switching means you win

case 2: say you pick door 2 originally. the host gets rid of door 1 and switching means you win again

case 3: say you pick door 3 originally. the host gets rid of either door 1 or 2 and switching means you get a goat (lame).

so 2/3 of the time you'd get a car by switching
 
the ropes one: light one rope at both ends and the other rope at one end. when the first rope's ends meet, light the other end of the second rope. i think. don't point and laugh if i'm wrong... i drew myself a picture!
 
jla314 said:
one of my friends going into finance told me this brain teaser that she got asked in her interviews a few times:

say you have two ropes of the same length, and you know each rope takes exactly one hour to burn. however, the ropes are not of uniform or identical consistency, so they burn at varying and different rates all along their length. with only these two ropes, how can you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
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Hmmm... Let me think, let me think...
 
jla314 said:
one of my friends going into finance told me this brain teaser that she got asked in her interviews a few times:

say you have two ropes of the same length, and you know each rope takes exactly one hour to burn. however, the ropes are not of uniform or identical consistency, so they burn at varying and different rates all along their length. with only these two ropes, how can you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
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hmm... burn a rope from both ends... at the conclusion of this 30 minutes pass... if you then start the second rope from both sides and from the center... 15 minutes? total 45?
 
dw2158 said:
the ropes one: light one rope at both ends and the other rope at one end. when the first rope's ends meet, light the other end of the second rope. i think. don't point and laugh if i'm wrong... i drew myself a picture!
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Yep, that would make sense.
 
dw2158 said:
the ropes one: light one rope at both ends and the other rope at one end. when the first rope's ends meet, light the other end of the second rope. i think. don't point and laugh if i'm wrong... i drew myself a picture!
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yeah!!
 
the only other brain teaser i know is super difficult and really complicated (and involves gnome murder).
 
jla314 said:
ok so lets label the doors 1 (goat) 2 (goat) 3 (car)!

case 1: say you pick door 1 originally. the host gets rid of door 2 and switching means you win

case 2: say you pick door 2 originally. the host gets rid of door 1 and switching means you win again

case 3: say you pick door 3 originally. the host gets rid of either door 1 or 2 and switching means you get a goat (lame).

so 2/3 of the time you'd get a car by switching
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yeah good explanation. at first i thought istone said that they host shows you a door with a goat, THEN you choose a door. i was wrong though
 
lstone13 said:
Was that in 21? Haha, I forgot if it was. No, I'm just procrastinating studying.
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Love that movie.

jla314 said:
one of my friends going into finance told me this brain teaser that she got asked in her interviews a few times:

say you have two ropes of the same length, and you know each rope takes exactly one hour to burn. however, the ropes are not of uniform or identical consistency, so they burn at varying and different rates all along their length. with only these two ropes, how can you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
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Hmmm... thinking
 
dw2158 said:
i still don't get it. le sigh.
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Think of it this was the one door you pick has a 1/3 chance of being right, the other two have a combined 2/3 chance of being right.

When you eliminate one of the other two doors the extra 1/3 chance from that door doesn't redistribute evenly, because the intial chance of one of the two being right was 2/3 and it still is, you just know that one of them isn't for sure.

if A=1/3 and B=2/3

and

B= C+D

if C=0 than D=2/3
 
dw2158 said:
i still don't get it. le sigh.
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Say doors #1 and #2 have goats behind them while #3 has the car. If you pick door #1, the host will show you door #2 and ask you whether you want to change. If you pick door #2, the host will show you door #1 and ask if you want to change. If you pick door #3, the host will show you either door #1 or #2 and ask if you want to change. So no matter which door you pick, the host will always be able to show you a door with a goat behind it.
 
okay, guys! i got it after lstone posted the pic! no need to keep explaining just 'cause you can't keep up with the 2014 thread 😛
 
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