I’ve made my graduate school decision. Real math to follow soon in subsequent posts, I promise.
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Good choice. Getting a different kind of mathematical culture is important! How come you choose that over the others though?
I heard a lot of advice to the effect that it would be a bad idea to go back to MIT, and I came to agree with it. Berkeley has a lovely campus and lots of interesting people around, and it just felt like a better fit than Chicago or Columbia.
Mazel tov! Today is an auspicious day to make this decision as UC Berkeley was founded one gross years ago today.
Congratulations!
What kind of Mathematics would you like to do in grad school?
Right now I’m interested in quantum topology, but who knows what’ll happen?
I doubt you know me, but I’m a physics major at MIT, your year, and I’ll be attending the physics program at Berkeley too.
Maybe I’ll see you around next week at the open house!
Unfortunately, the open house for the math program has already happened. I do plan on attempting to talk to the physicists at Berkeley though, so we might meet in the fall!
Hopefully we’ll continue to hold occasional “mathematical physics wine and cheese” events. This year I’ve had the time and energy to organize one every month or so. If next year I travel less (fat chance), I could do something every two weeks; or if one of you wants to organize wine-and-cheese, then we can probably have them more often. But, anyway, the point is that there are definitely opportunities for mathematicians and physicists to talk.
Congratulations!
Well, I’m quite happy about this!
Congrats.
My friend suggested me visiting this site,saying that there are abundant math resources here.Now I can see. congratulations to you that you enter a good college for further study.I’m a freshman in college and I want to major in math too. Wonderful to be part of the math treasure site and grateful to know nice people here. p.s If I have questions related to math, may I have the pleasure to post here to ask?? ^^
Thanks! If your question is about a specific problem or help understanding a specific concept, I would recommend that you instead ask your question at math.stackexchange.com, where many other people will be available to answer it (including possibly myself).
Dear Qiaochu,
Would you like to tell us why you chose to move to Berkeley?I am still in high school and grad school is not exactly my concern now, but since I have been following you for a while( the non-math parts of your blog,to be particular!), I really felt like asking you this question.All the best for Grad study.
I more or less answered this question above.
Qiaochu
Did you apply to Princeton? Was that one of your top choices as well?
No. I looked into it, but Princeton doesn’t have a lot of faculty doing things I’m interested in.
Qiaochu
I was just at Berkeley on Saturday. Don’t the earthquakes startle you? Also the math building is not one of the prettier buildings on campus.
I can get used to small earthquakes. The math building doesn’t look great from the outside, but that’s actually a bonus if you never leave the math building!
Qiaochu
What about Harvard or Stanford? Did you apply to those schools? Was it not a right fit (i.e not a lot of faculty doing things you are interested in)?
I didn’t apply to Stanford for the same reason I didn’t apply to Princeton. I applied to Harvard but was waitlisted, and in any case it’ll be nice to get away from the Boston/Cambridge area for awhile.
Qiaochu
Did you apply to University of Michigan? How many schools did you apply to?
Nope. I only applied to Chicago, Berkeley, Columbia, MIT, and Harvard.
your blog is awesome
Go Bears.
Reshetikhin is a great source of ideas and questions. You should also talk to Vaughan when you’re there.
Unfortunately, word on the street is that Vaughan Jones is moving to Vanderbilt…?
That’s already happened.
Be sure to visit Prof. Mark Haiman at Berkley!