Anyone been to/off to NMSS this year? (1 Viewer)

[arielbelle]

only a specified group of people would know what i'm referring to, and funny i put it under Maths ext 2.

Anyway, if you've been in the past, was it worth the time, money and energy? I mean it's in year 12 when the time is pretty precious and it's not totally cheap, not to mention travel hassles. were you homesick?

if you're going this year, what do you think of it?

 

[turtle_2468]

Umm... okay.
Money: yeah. I guess you can apply for financial if you want to...
Time and energy: I'm a bit biased on this one. Most ppl found it heaps of fun, basically you have 2 talks every day, but much of the day (say afternoon and night?) is mucking around and having fun with other people... if you haven't been to a camp where you don't know most of the ppl, go to this one, you'll meet lots of amazing ppl.

As to syllabus/things you learn, well duh it's maths! I'm guessing you haven't done much out of school maths before, in which case you'll find that it's quite challenging and fun I don't like the main lecturer much, but aside from that all the staff are very nice.

Travelling is fun! Especially by plane... makes me feel valued by airplane companies, not to mention frequent flyer points... *LOL*

Homesickness... probably not. It's only 2 weeks, the ppl you'll meet will be great, I went 2 years ago and we still meet up in uni to have lunch/have big reunions in holidays...

Yeah... any more questions?

Others who read this, write something more One opinion is never enough...
Turtle

 

[turtle_2468]

anyone else? please?
ariel, you can pm me if you want and I can give you the emails of other former NMSS people... if you want a second opinion on it

 

[0o0]

what is NMSS?

 

[turtle_2468]

The camp in canberra...

 

[spice girl]

Originally posted by turtle_2468
The camp in canberra...

it's a social camp...

 

[arielbelle]

yap, sorry turtle, i didn't check this thread for some time. You're really cool, i looked at your profile and you've turned out exactly the way i want to turn out in a year's time when i finish the HSC.

I just did a more detailed check of your profile and now i know a looot about you. It's no wonder you replied to my post, being who you are *wink wink*. I think i'd better pm you, considering i might reveal your identity to the public if i write further.

 

[Fosweb]

Is there really that much to reveal?

 

[arielbelle]

yep, all over the media (almost), if you look in the right places.

 

[spice girl]

hahahaha....

go turtle ....*wink wink*

 

[Fosweb]

But what I mean is, its not that difficult to find stuff... But is it that secretive? (Especially when its in his profile)

http://www.google.com/search?q="david+chan"+olympiad&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=...hematics&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr=countryAU

turtle: I want a .wolfram address!

 

[freaking_out]

lol u don't even need to go to google- just look at his profile its got a website abt. him.

 

[arielbelle]

OTT: usually what happens when teenagers trivially bump foreheads.

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by arielbelle
OTT: usually what happens when teenagers trivially bump foreheads.

???

 

[mercury]

NMSS = National Mathematics Summer School
It's more of a social event
It seemed fun though.

 

[turtle_2468]

Oh man, someone other than me bothered to do the searches?

 

[Wohzazz]

I'm sooooo jealous
*sigh* the benefits of being a maths pro

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by drbuchanan
Here's the NMSS website:

http://www.nmss.org.au/

i just went to this site and found out that this camp costs $1200.

 

[Fosweb]

And they put a few extra e's into their title simply to make it look/sound better...

 

[spice girl]

Originally posted by drbuchanan
The expenses are for travel and accomodation.

the emphasis should be "accomodation", considering they get to stay at bruce hall...