Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

please help with cao, not long left, <40 hrs

  • 30-06-2007 12:27am
    #1
    sd123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭


    didn't really know where to put this so i just threw it in here seeing its sorta maths related!
    My last chance to change my CAO is tomorrow at exactly 5.15 p.m. and i'm still not exactly sure what I want to do, and i definitely don't want to waste a year doing something and then dropping out.
    Here's my scenario, I really like maths and love applied maths. I'm thinking bout putting down theoretical physics at Trinity for first choice, but i'm also thinking bout science or engineering. I honestly dont know what to do. Is there a degree course very like applied maths? Is TP like that? what does anyone else think about TP who might be doing it? and what do you do after college ( seriously )
    What bout maths, or a maths and psychology moderatorship in TCD? any pros and cons there? again, what bout post college life?
    how bout general science degree? is there alot of maths involved? after college what do u do with that?
    How bout engineering, i'm thinking bout mechanical. any pros or cons?
    Also, any recommendations on courses and colleges. I can only go to NUI's for engineering cos no foreign language.

    heres my LC subjects if that helps: H Eng, O iri, H mat, H phy, H chem, H bio, H app mat, H tec draw, C LCVP.

    Points wise, im honestly thinking bout 570.
    I know its really broad, but any help would be great.:o

    and if going for Msc or Phd, how much does it cost?
    does the foreign language requirement still apply to colleges for post-grad?

    thanks;)


Comments

  • #2
    nothing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,781 ✭✭✭nothing


    Have you thought about general science in NUIM? With the subjects you're doing you'd fly through first year. Maths Phys is very much applied maths in first and second year. And the maths is excellant. You're only problem is that you might not get in to Maynooth without a foreign language.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #3
    Fallen Seraph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Fallen Seraph


    If you wish to know more about TP in trinity the TCD board is a good place to ask. There used to be a thread comparing the TP and maths courses there.I can't find it, but I'd be very surprised if the mods had the lack of foresight to delete it; it did tend to get referenced quite a bit.

    In terms of applied maths, I wouldn't go so far as to say that the TP is very similar. The physics homework and the mechanics homework is quite similar to the questions asked in applied maths, but the main difference would be that in applied maths you learn how to do the questions and then do them for homework, here you'd learn the theory and you wouldn't spend as much class time looking at the questions. Then there's the analysis and algebra, which simply aren't applied maths.

    Some helpful fellows have put this together if you want to get the gist of maths and tp in trinity (although its actual purpose is for those studying it)

    http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~wfoc/wiki/Main_Page

    For TP you'd be doing MA111, MA121, MA141 and all the JF physics courses, for maths you'd be doing all the JF maths courses.


  • #4
    aequinoctium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭aequinoctium


    methinks the deadline has passed now...

    care to speak of what your final decision was?


  • #5
    sd123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭sd123


    aequinoctium wrote:
    methinks the deadline has passed now...

    care to speak of what your final decision was?

    sure.

    I was always thinking bout medicine, so i put that down in trinity seeing ive no foreign language :o
    probably wont get it though tbh, that being the reason i wanted to find out amap bout TP
    2nd was TP in trinity, followed by Maths/psychology, Pharmacy and science in trinity. Other choices included actuarial in DCU and engineering in UCD. What a weird combination:D


Advertisement