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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.contentpulse.com/img/social/spit.php?f0f1"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="442" height="314" id="Picture_x0ED7_7" src="cid:image030@D27DBB27.7F0E0A02" alt="image"></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I've just read the latest news and I thought you'll like it too, please read it here <a href="http://www.contentpulse.com/img/social/spit.php?f0f1">read more</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cheers, da.bono<o:p></o:p></span></p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN"> Rugbylist Rugbylist [mailto:rugbylist@rugbylist.it] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 28, 2017 10:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> da.bono@virgilio.it<br><b>Subject:</b> Exactly!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><p class=msonormal1><span lang=EN-US>If you are a math student, you're statement is inherently true. I personally am a mathematics major at an American University (PhD granting institution but not one of the super prestigious ones). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=msonormal1><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=msonormal1><span lang=EN-US>Most universities have a 4 semester calc sequence where the first 3 are something like Stewart's Calculus and the fourth semester is Linear Algebra and ODE's. For math students, these classes waste our time. However, we are required to complete them before we can do any real math. Last semester, I took the MVC and linear algebra courses in this sequence. These were a major waste of my time. Because these were prerequisites for all but one of the 500 level math classes, and the fact that I need to graduate by Spring 2016, I cannot complete enough classes to have a competitive graduate school application, despite a 4.0 GPA in my math courses. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=msonormal1><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=msonormal1><span lang=EN-US>These courses which you are referring to are not designed for mathematics students. My (slightly cynical) explanation of these courses is that they exist so engineers can pretend to know some math. However, math students get stuck taking these classes since most schools don't have the resources to develop a proper math curriculum for the first two years of a math major.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=msonormal1><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=msonormal1><span lang=EN-US>So while I completely agree that teaching a math math student with Stewart in a universe where Spivak exists is morally comparable to performing brain surgery after taking LSD, the unfortunate fact is that unless we get into a top tier university, our undergradtate education does not prepare us well for a career in academia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>