Trends in Cal Student Startups

Every semester, the team at Free Ventures reviews numerous applications from student startup teams to join our semester-long batch. Our process brings in applications from across the campus in different majors ranging from biology to computer science to political economy, to…

UPDATED: An open letter in regard to UC Berkeley’s inaction on Geoff Marcy

Update: The graduate students, postdocs, and faculty of UCB have now each put out statements that call for Geoff Marcy to be removed. Geoff has also tendered…

Hoisted from the Archives: The Uses of the University

Alma Mater Blogging: Greg Mankiw’s desire to move Harvard to someplace better adapted to human life than Massachusetts was triggered by:

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Time for Harvard to Move?: The Wall Street Journal…

Do what you want.

Since I was in elementary school, my highest grades were in my math classes. I was entered into national math competitions, and I placed almost every time. In high school, I took every math course available: Alg2/Trig, Pre-calc, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, and AP Stats (the last two simultaneously)…