Great start so far! I'm relatively new to the subject (but not to math), but have recently been reading Spivak's "Catetory Theory for the Science" with a group via http:/
I find it hard to believe, particularly if you're in financial need, that you'd have a full ride at UT and not have been offered anything at JHU, so double check with the JHU office of financial aid first to see what, if anything, you'd be offered.
More than anything I'd recommend at least visiting both campuses in person and taking a tour and speaking to some students and professors. Asking a question here like you have with only the three data points (two schools and one financial aid package) is not nearly enough to go on for anyone to presume to help you make one of the most influential decisions you're going to make in your life - particularly when the advice is likely to be a terrifically biased and spurious and you're unlikely to delve into the nature of the responses you're getting.
In some sense, you're comparing apples and oranges. A couple of questions you should ask, however, above and beyond the simple ranking portion of the question which most are focusing on in their answers (while the remainder seem to be a bit more biased based on their personal experiences) include:
What are the campus environments like?
How big are the schools and what kind of attention and resources will I have access to?
How big are the cities they're in and what do they offer as part of the undergraduate experience?
What happens after one or two years if you decide to change your major?
Other than the end result of the degree, what do you want out of a college experience?
Are you looking for more diversity or less in terms of culture, religion, etc.?
What are your other interests outside of academics and are those interests actively represented or possible at the school you want to attend? (As an example, are you a musician and want to take classes or have practice time at a college's sister conservatory - perhaps you could get a dual degree? or are there a variety of other music outlets available like bands, symphonies, orchestras, music groups, etc.?)
UT is a humongous place, while Hopkins is significantly smaller, so at UT you're much more likely to be treated like just another number, even within the electrical engineering department. At Hopkins your classes are guaranteed to be much smaller and more intimate which gives you far more access to your professors - particularly when you may need recommendations down the road.
Statistically, if you're planning on going to graduate school, you'll have far more resources for doing research as an undergraduate at Hopkins, which will give you more preparation and a stronger case when you apply. Hopkins excels in undergraduate research experience in part because of its philosophy but also because it gets almost twice the government funding than even the next closest competitor. Additional resources like the proximity of the Applied Physics Lab and the Space Telescope Science Institute (which managed projects like the Hubble Telescope) will give you additional opportunities related to your field while you're in school.
If you do want to play the simple ranking game, keep in mind that only about a third of your course work as an undergraduate will be in the EE department. How highly ranked are all the other programs and departments like mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, English, and others from which the remainder of your coursework will come? Again, what will things look like if you decide to change major part way through?
[Disclosure: I'm an alum of Johns Hopkins class of 1996 with degrees in both biomedical engineering and electrical engineering. I've been both very active on the Hopkins Society of Engineering Alumni board as well as the board that oversees the University's larger Alumni Association. I'm happy to give you more information about Hopkins, and can be easily found via a variety of social media outlets.]
It’s not just that one song, but four entire albums that Brubeck did that experiment with time signatures. I’ve created a Spotify playlist for those interested: https:/
I’m certainly anything but a musician, but Robert Greenberg’s Great Courses Lecture series Understanding the Fundamentals of Music [http:/
While researching the links between mnemonics and shorthand, I just came across "A complete guide to the improvement of the memory or the science of memory simplified: with practical applications to languages, history, geography, music, prose, poetry, shorthand, etc." written by James Henry Bacon and published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London. https:/
Isaac Pitman, who published the book, was also the inventor of Pitman shorthand which was introduced in 1837 and is structurally similar to the Major System.
The book seems to be based on Bacon's prior work "The Science of Memory Simplified and Explained: Or, A Rational System for Improving the Memory, Etc" written in 1861.
Josh, if you feel it appropriate, you can also add the book above to http:/
#memory #shorthand
#BigHistory @TheEconomist on Gangnam Style and Productivity
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Often giving students a good idea of the size and scope of historical events can be difficult.
The Economist has a lovely graphic today that equates the number of man hours used ("wasted"?) in watching the music video Gangnam Style on YouTube to the man hours required to build various historical structures like Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid, or Burj Khalifa. Hopefully for many, it will put into high relief something from their daily lives in comparison with societies and cultures far distant in time from their own while also exercising some critical reasoning skills.
The Economist usually has some interesting daily charts that can be interesting to take apart and ask additional questions about. For instance on this one, how might man hours translate into direct cost across each of these disparate time periods? What does this say about the freedoms different societies either enjoyed or didn't? What might this indicate about the "next" potential threshold we reach? Are we possibly not getting to it as quickly as we otherwise might because of base entertainment?
On a smaller time scale, what is the equivalent if an individual student gave up something in their life (texting, video games, television) and instead spent it on something else (studying, for example)? How could one calculate the amount of time it takes to get a Ph.D., for example, and convert that into video gaming time? If one then gave up videogaming, how many Ph.D.s could one earn?