<p>hey guys sorry for all that inconvenience, now that the mighty initiator himself pointed out the dos and donts, I will make sure I wont hassle people with initials, sorry! my bad!</p>
<p>Balle balle </p>
<p>Sent from my Desire HD using CC</p>
<p>Sorry, ROUGH E once again, for accusing you of being SH, of course you are a smart from OIS. </p>
<p>Sincere Apologies from my behalf</p>
<p>Sorry, ROUGH E once again, for accusing you of being SH, of course you are a smarty from OIS.</p>
<p>Sincere Apologies from my behalf</p>
<p>@Decibel: I am not entirely sure that you would have to necessarily apply as a transfer applicant. Just because you take college courses at a local university doesn’t necessarily mean that you will be considered a transfer applicant. There are lots of high schoolers in the US who take part-time college courses in subjects of their choice, and by no means does this make them a transfer applicant. Many do research with college professors, and still they don’t count as transfers.</p>
<p>The question to determine whether or not you are a transfer student will likely be the following:
- Do you intend to transfer credits from Dhaka U. to the university of your choice?
- Are you considered a full-time student by the Dhaka U. faculty?</p>
<p>The first question can be manipulated as you see fit, but the second question is trickier, and depends on your particular circumstances. If for example, you have a job, but you attend the classes only as a hobby without any formal grading system, you are much likelier to be considered a regular freshman applicant. On the other hand, if you take multiple classes on a regular basis, and have been already enrolled into a formal program in the Dhaka U and spent more than 6 months in the program then you may be considered a transfer applicant. In your case it would depend entirely on the circumstances. I assume you want to be considered a regular applicant, so try to work things in your favor to make it look that way without techniclly having broken any honor codes. Universities in the US value that greatly. Being a transfer applicant is a huge disadvantage in the application process. </p>
<p>But in your case, seeing as you don’t <em>intent</em> to earn your degree, I think you could pass off as a regular applicant. Good luck!</p>
<p>NP</p>
<p>Is anyone here familiar with the Khan Academy? Do you all realize that he’s Bengali-American? What are your views on his educational techniques? I find his work to be inspirational. In fact, for many of you, I think his work will become very important in the near future as he continues to influence many professors from around the world to make education an open-source thing. So for those of you who do not get into the university of your choice, you can always learn anything you’ve always wanted to learn through the internet. Learning by yourself is also a very rewarding albeit challenging process. But the internet has made it so much more convenient. I hope you all take advantage of this.</p>
<p>Right now his videos are narrowly limited to mathematics and finance, but I expect professors to make online education free in other fields. Many universities release online lectures for their classes. I know that MIT, Harvard, berkeley, Yale, Harvey Mudd, and Stanford all do this. It’s a matter of time until the internet connection will be your gateway to all knowledge (at least in my opinion).</p>
<p>NP</p>
<p>No my initials are not DB.
@NP:
- Yes i want to transfer credits from DU.
- No, i m not a full-time student as i do not take every class in a week and do not take the regular exams.</p>
<p>Just got up and haven’t checked my email yet. :)</p>
<p>@NPcomplete “Many universities release online lectures for their classes” for free? i mean, for the normal guys like us who can only dream of getting accepted? can we access them now?</p>
<p>@akashdip:</p>
<p>Why not? check out MITx.</p>
<p>whoa! its no short of a dream come true for me! i’ll check out all of them. so cool! thanks @NPcomplete & @Decibel, thanks so much.</p>
<p>u r welcome! :)</p>
<p>I am actually surprised you did not know about this before akash. It changes things doesn’t it? You can find lectures in almost any subject if you search youtube… MIT releases lectures for the main subjects like Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus. It’s a shame they don’t release video lectures on quantum mechanics and real analysis, which MIT is known for.</p>
<p>You no longer have to be a student at a school to be able to learn. All you need is an internet connection and the motivation and everything will work itself out. </p>
<p>NP</p>
<p>Guys: Just a math post.</p>
<p>How do you prove 2/10=2?</p>
<p>Prove that 2/10=2
.
Japanese student:
Wrong question
.
… … Chinese student:
No Way
.
American student:
It’s strange, how is it possible?
.
Bangladeshi:
Two/ Ten =wo / en(T with T
cancel.)
w= 23rd letter,
o= 15th letter,
e= 5th letter
n= 14th letter
So
=>23+15 / 5+14
=>38 / 19
=>2
Bangladeshi student can answer
anything whatever the question
is. 
:P</p>
<p>Sorry to digress from the college thing but a little fun is also needed!!</p>
<p>@NPcomplete,yes I read about khan academi on the newspaper and I am also subscribed to the youtube channel. Really insparational and good stuff.</p>
<p>@NPcomplete shame that i didnt know about it. i thank you very, very-(many times removed)-very, very much for informing
@Decibel i seriously expected better jokes from you xD</p>
<p>@NPcomplete btw what is ‘real analysis’? i thought calculus itself is real analysis. idk much though. i maybe totally wrong.</p>
<p>@Decibel: since you are not gonna follow any math logic anyway, there is a much easier way of proving it:</p>
<p>0 has no value, so 2/10= 2/1=2 (Proved :p)</p>
<p>and if u use the addition approach u used: 2/10= 2/(1+0)= 2 (Proved again)</p>
<p>seriously, you had to write all that stuff to prove this silly thing? :p</p>
<p>Afaik COLUMBIA, DUKE, CORNELL, JHU gonna announce their regular decisions tonight. All da best bd applicants :)</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>@akash: In calculus you generally only learn formulas like product rule and chain rule and you apply the formulas but not aren’t really taught why they work. In real analysis you are asked to prove those formulas and understand why they work, using more complicated ideas like completeness and compactness. You learn more abstract theorems, like the Heine-Borel Theorem and the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem.</p>
<p>It’s very similar to the difference between classical physics and quantum mechanics. In classical physics you sort of accept everything like Newton’s laws and Coulomb’s laws without understanding why they work. In quantum mechanics you learn that they don’t always work… similar to calculus vs. real analysis. You learn conditions where theorems cannot be applied and try to find ways to fix that.</p>
<p>NP</p>