dvse i've read many of your posts, and i agree with them. however im curious what kind of situation career wise you are in right now. Judging from all your posts you seem to be a pretty old guy who has been to many universities websites including faculty websites and rummaged through to see if you can find anything interesting. This includes blogs etc. You read too much on this, it's almost as if you want to be an academic.
You keep on advocating math education is fundamental to a lot of the stuff, which is true but kind in mind that on bos.org you are unlikely to find REAL hard working talent aKa prodigy like terrence tao.
Most people studying something like Mathematics at uni in australia waste their time, because if you really know where these grads actually end up, you'll be disappointed.
Only the top % of undergraduate math students actually get anywhere. most of them can't find decent jobs because it takes a real mind to anything remotely rewarding. A large amount of them can't find jobs in private sector and end up becoming a maths teacher that-is not their dream. Australia brain drain hello? So please stop encouraging students to study math because you should do that in forums where prospective Harvard MIT students hang about etc insert ivy league uni here.
So dvse can you tell me via PM or right here, (so everyone can see) your situation career wise so we know where you are coming from. I can tell you are constantly reading and researching a lot of stuff but kind in mind that everyone wants a good job that pays well and there's no point in telling ppl to study math to be some quant analyst because that profession is small and competitive.
So please stop giving misleading career advice to bos.org students, because for all practical purposes even those who think they're substance end up not getting where they want. dvse if im not mistaken are you nostalgic(regret something) or , or have you failed your university GPA and unfortunately never got into the dream job?
You keep stressing about a real education. We all know education here is shit in australia. Student staff ratios are horrid and we dont have the best staff here. Some people are obsessed with education and laugh at other who havent seen true fundamentals of theory and logic but please don't force it on others. We all care about money. everything else we missed out on regarding education we don't blame the shit uni. WE STUDY and learn more in our OWN time.
Student leader may have been convinced to do maths, idc if he enjoys it or not or is confident about his career, but in the worst possible situation in that he doesn't maintain a high GPA, he will find it ridiculously hard to find a good job he actually likes. I'll assume he isn't real talent which means he wasted his time studying math. He should have studied engineering.
