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lol, guess thats why i dont do math or at oxbridge !
And i can see why its 1 second
EDIT - Daz, same conclusion as you, 1 ant, whole length of stick.
And i can see why its 1 second
EDIT - Daz, same conclusion as you, 1 ant, whole length of stick.
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I think it's possible get it to be longer, but I cba to work it out.daz said:When I looked at it, I thought 1 second immediately, simply because if you take the case of 1 ant starting from one end and walking to the other...
Raymond Lin said:
Indeed - but thats not a proof, thats just the special case where there is one ant. How do you know that if I put 1000 ants on the stick the collisions wouldn't allow an ant to stay on the stick for longer - since it would keep turning around.
To solve the problem you have to recognise that two ants colliding and turning around is equivalent to two ants passing through each other - as DaveF pointed out.
w11tho said:So you didn't get the grades for Oxbridge then? That was why I was puzzled.
Well I got the grades to get to the interview... and I was predicted to get the same for A2. It's not an excuse, but my A2 year was a tough year for me personally with my father passing away. What can I say, I didn't put the work in.
Not getting at you bud - was just sure I'd seen you post your A-Level scores before and thought it was odd. Hey-ho.daz said:Well I got the grades for the interview... it's not an excuse, but my A2 year was a tough year for me personally with my father passing away.
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I have been considering doing my MSc at Surrey. However I do have a way to go.
Any advice with regards to my orginal post?
Any advice with regards to my orginal post?
w11tho said:Lol, good one. I assume you also chose not to play up front for Man Utd, become Priminister or be an astronaut.
I would have thought someone at Cambridge would know how to spell prime minister.
I chose not to apply, which to me is choosing not to go there. I'm not saying I would have got in if I had applied, only that I'm not a failed applicant who's bitter he didn't get in. I just knew Oxbridge wasn't for me and so didn't consider applying.
IceBus said:
This is the bit I fear people may be having trouble with. I think they may come back at you with comments like "How on earth do you know something isn't for you unless you properly research it" and "Comments like that just go to reinforce the false negative stereotype of oxbridge students" and "It's a shame that the false oxbridge stereotypes are turning people away without them giving a serious look at the place".
Personally, I absolutly respect your decision to apply wherever you like, but I think if you clarify by stating whether you based your decision on going to some open days, looking around colleges, talking to students/postgrads/fellows; or on a bad perceived reputation you picked up by some bitter reject down the pub.
IceBus said:I would have thought someone at Cambridge would know how to spell prime minister.
I chose not to apply, which to me is choosing not to go there. I'm not saying I would have got in if I had applied, only that I'm not a failed applicant who's bitter he didn't get in. I just knew Oxbridge wasn't for me and so didn't consider applying.
That's the same reason why I didn't apply. UCL represented me as the best possible option, I agree with their stance and policy and it creates an atmosphere which suits who I am. Oxbridge wouldn't have and I attended public school!
gurdas said:
UCL was high up my list at unis to look at, but they made the Eastern European component of their Politics BA mandatory, and I wanted to have a bit of freedom to study third world regions etc. I also wasn't sure if I could hack the pace of London for three years on top of a degree.
My decision not consider Oxbridge was based mainly on knowing current and past students and what they said/how they acted once they'd gone away. A mixture of things kept coming back to me - either how people who've lived here all their lives would come back suddenly sporting an English accent, wearing formal wear to the shops to buy a pint of milk, or just the sheer intensity of the slight "ra" based college lifestyle. i.e. If I asked anyone where they went they'd invariably reply "I go to Queens". No, you don't, you go to Cambridge, Queens College. Queens is the big University in the centre of Belfast.
I don't want to turn this into a bashing thread and I'm sure I could have been unlucky in who I spoke to, but five of my closest friends go to Oxbridge, as have their older brothers/sisters. A lot of their brothers and sisters said that Oxbridge was a bit socially retarded.
Another factor was that I didn't want to live in such isolated places for a lot of different reasons - I wanted to live in a vibrant city while doing my degree.
IceBus said:
It just depends what you like. Personally I was sick of living in a city and was determined to move to a smaller one (than Leicester) - Hence the London unis were out of the question, along with manchester, nottingham and so on. I applied to places like Bath, Warwick and York along with Durham.
Just trying to say different people like being in different places. My sister did her degree in Cambridge and loved it, but it wouldn't have been for me. (Even assuming I got in.)