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Jun 2, 2010 4:46 PM
ts1227;376873 wrote:My degree is in meteorology. Those were the classes that no one is really sure why we had to take, and the new faculty member in our department is removing them from the curriculum and replacing then with courses that will actually help us.
I got A's and B's in the actual important ones (Thermodynamics, Dynamic Meteorology, Differential Equations, etc.)

I'm in grad school, so I'm not terrorizing anyone yet, haha.

I was joking in the first post, but a quick question since I've taken some climate/meterology math modeling classes.

For a meterology degree do you have to take any math classes past differential equations? Do you have to take anything in chaos theory, systems of differential equations, bifurcating systems, etc?

Those were some of the most interesting math classes I ever took, and they had quite a few weather/climate/meterology models used in the classes.
Jun 2, 2010 4:46pm
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Jun 2, 2010 4:50 PM
i got a tree one year
Jun 2, 2010 4:50pm
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Jun 2, 2010 4:57 PM
jmog;376919 wrote:I was joking in the first post, but a quick question since I've taken some climate/meterology math modeling classes.

For a meterology degree do you have to take any math classes past differential equations? Do you have to take anything in chaos theory, systems of differential equations, bifurcating systems, etc?

Those were some of the most interesting math classes I ever took, and they had quite a few weather/climate/meterology models used in the classes.
We talked a little bit about the ideas of bifrucation ahd chaos in other courses (climate, synoptic met.) but don't necessarily go through the rigor of solving it. That's more of a grad school thing. I went to grad school for geography (we don't have meteorology here) and am doing a meteroologically related thesis, so I haven't had a ton of it.

Dynamic Meteorology is a 400 level physics class, and is the only class we take as undergrads that actually ties any of the math and physics we learned to meteorology.
Jun 2, 2010 4:57pm
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Jun 2, 2010 5:33 PM
I believe it was a 2.4. Never really went to class, but had a 3.0 going into finals. Did BAD on a final I thought I got a B or A on (pretty sure I messed up and filled in the bubbles in the wrong order; had an A going into it and left with a D+).
Jun 2, 2010 5:33pm
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Jun 2, 2010 5:36 PM
3.35 first semester sophomore year
Jun 2, 2010 5:36pm
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Jun 2, 2010 9:23 PM
3.8 as far as I can remember.
Jun 2, 2010 9:23pm
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Jun 2, 2010 9:26 PM
mths_2013;377239 wrote:3.8 as far as I can remember.

special ed classes are easy ain't they?
Jun 2, 2010 9:26pm
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Jun 2, 2010 9:31 PM
3.26, I think.
Jun 2, 2010 9:31pm
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Jun 2, 2010 9:32 PM
pnhasbeen;377243 wrote:Honors classes are easy ain't they?

Yeah
Jun 2, 2010 9:32pm
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Jun 2, 2010 9:41 PM
mths_2013;377257 wrote:Yeah

Lol either way you go to Miami Trace. I'm not impressed.
Jun 2, 2010 9:41pm
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Jun 2, 2010 9:50 PM
ts1227;376931 wrote:We talked a little bit about the ideas of bifrucation ahd chaos in other courses (climate, synoptic met.) but don't necessarily go through the rigor of solving it. That's more of a grad school thing. I went to grad school for geography (we don't have meteorology here) and am doing a meteroologically related thesis, so I haven't had a ton of it.

Dynamic Meteorology is a 400 level physics class, and is the only class we take as undergrads that actually ties any of the math and physics we learned to meteorology.

Yeah, bifurcating systems/chaos theory (chaos theory is really just a way to solve systems with many MANY bifurcations) was one of the most interesting topics I studied in any math classes. I had 3 classes that covered those subjects and it was much more interesting than almost any engineering class I ever took.
Jun 2, 2010 9:50pm
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Jun 2, 2010 10:06 PM
you engineering guys are in a class by yourselves! Hard stuff for sure!
Jun 2, 2010 10:06pm
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Jun 2, 2010 10:08 PM
I pulled a 1.5 during winter quarter after I transferred to TOSU. Failed Math 132, and forgot to file paperwork to drop the 8:00 Chemistry class that I -thought- I dropped second week.

I had just started working what was supposed to be a part-time job loading freight trucks (Teamster wages for "casuals" in 1979 was $13.31 an hour!) - I got so wrapped up in earning the $$ that I wound up putting in 35 or so hours a week. I also devoted a lot of time to spending the the windfall down on High Street. :)

After having my Dad's boot surgically removed from my ass, I cut back on the work hours and actually started studying again. - never got below at 3.25 after that.
Jun 2, 2010 10:08pm
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Jun 3, 2010 10:58 AM
my spring semester freshman year I had like a 2.5 took me a long time to adjust to life as a college baseball player and missing tons of class. Thankfully it hasn't hurt me too much in the long run
Jun 3, 2010 10:58am
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trackandccrunner

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Jun 3, 2010 11:08 AM
2.0 second semster my freshmen year of college.
Jun 3, 2010 11:08am
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Jun 3, 2010 11:18 AM
Hell, I graduated high school with like a 1.12 GPA, so I had some quality bangers in there. Might have registered a couple 0.0's in my day, cause I'd always mail in the first semester.
Jun 3, 2010 11:18am
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Jun 3, 2010 11:28 AM
Freshman year, spring quarter.

took 3 classes and went out 6 nights a week..I got a 1.1
Jun 3, 2010 11:28am
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Gblock

Jun 3, 2010 11:31 AM
my last semester of college i didnt have any books paper or pencils and scraped a 2.5 i only attended classes for tests
Jun 3, 2010 11:31am
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SnotBubbles

Jun 3, 2010 11:38 AM
0.00 my freshman year at the University of Toledo. The only class I completed was my mandatory "Orientation Class." I got a credit for it (1), but it didn't count towards my GPA. I'm not proud of that. I got into "partying" a little too much. After the first semester, I buckled down and started going to classes. I was pretty much A's across the board, then I broke my ankle. I couldn't get to classes, then used that as an excuse to fall back into my first semester woes.

My parents were none to happy. I straightened myself back up and maintained +3.00 GPA's the remainder of my college education.
Jun 3, 2010 11:38am
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Jun 3, 2010 12:42 PM
pnhasbeen;377279 wrote:Lol either way you go to Miami Trace. I'm not impressed.

Shouldn't be.
Jun 3, 2010 12:42pm
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Jun 3, 2010 1:45 PM
3.4- but I am in Poli Sci which is admittedly pretty easy for me. I am applying to grad schools in the fall.
Jun 3, 2010 1:45pm