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Its similar to the latter case minus the killings. By the way, exploitations are quite common. What about Management Consulting vs I-Banking?

Congrats on the Rotman admission. Its great that you had this experience but maybe you should emphasize that you represented the company (you were probably hired as employee and not worker) in their negotiation with the Union. It all boils down to the Master-Slave issue.

I don't know whether i would agree with GMATbong's statement 'The more you help the strike, the better for your app.'. Strikes are considered illegal and put a damper on the BAU (Business As Usual) of the organization. Check your organization's Disciplinary Action Policy and this will be highlighted or check the local laws pertaining to union strikes. Think about it, your union is paralyzing the organization!

Thanks alot. By the way, the emphasis is on 'religious' minority not racial or gender. Try non-Muslim in a Muslim country. Could this be 'a shoe in' for HSW? What about Consulting vs I-Banking as far as my profile is concerned?

Could anyone provide a candid assessment of my chances of admission at a top business school in the US. Here is my bio: Male 28 yr old Third World Country (belong to the religious minority) BS Electrical Engr. from a top 10 Engr. school in the US (Completed 7 courses from the Masters program before graduation) MS Electrical Engr. (Although this doesn't mean anything for the MBA program) GPA: 3.46 GMAT: Will take at the end of this month. Experience (before Fall 2008): 2.5 yrs teaching at the undergrad level, 1.5 yrs human resource experience at the managerial level. Does the admission committee count teaching as experience? And what is preferred? The reason i ask this is becasue i have a good offer to join HR again. Leadership: -Vice Chair of an international Engineering society (country chapter). -Selected as member of a Math Research Center and the only non-phd among a very small group of members. -Appeared on a TV show to air my views on the educational system -Invited as reviewer for a few technical conferences. -Conducted a summer school for faculty members and researchers Other activities: -member of Toastermasters -freelance writer -do a lot of work for my community through motivational speeches and writing. -have been on numerous soft skills training I am of the opinion that Management Consutancy would be the job for me inview of my experience but its not like i can't hack I-Banking given my math skills. Thanks in advance.

Let the sides of one rectangle be: ab, bd, dc and ca. Sides of the other rectangle: ef, fg, gh and he Perimter of the two rectangle = [(ab + bd + dc + ca) + (ef + fg + gh + he)] = 24 Let x be the intersection of the two rectangles then xd + dh + hx = 3Heavy line segment = [(ab + bd + dc + ca) + (ef + fg + gh + he)] - [xd + dh + hx] = 24 - 3 = 21

In my opinion, this is a place where the person recommending you can flaunt his position in the department i.e assistant prof., associate prof. or prof. with prof. being the highest level. Adjunct prof. does not carry much weightage with the adcomm. The adccomm. is really looking for a little info. on the person who recommends you. If a professor who is also the director of a research center at your college says that you are a decent student then believe it or not this will carry more value than an assistant prof. who says you are a really great student. Wish you all the best.

Good Luck eagle and vinay. Hope to see double 800's from both you guys!

a strategem is provided/designed to deceive just like a concession is provided/designed to placate (reduce anger). In the case of E, a sentence is NOT provided/designed to prosecute. Prosecute means to initiate legal proceedings and by passing a sentence you have already condemned the person in question after having initiated a legal proceeding. In my opinion if it should have been sentence:condemn for it to be correct! Hope this helps!

Listen kid none of us on this forum can tell you for sure where you can get admission cause remember that we are students just like you. Your list of extra curri. activities is impressive and so is your GPA so I guess they should make up for your SAT score. Don't worry about AP's, I guess they only come into play when you are looking to pick up credits in your freshman year. You can always take placement tests at the college once you are admitted. Good Luck!

Thetrooper, your GRE score is good so sit back and relax! Freaking out after the test is normal, I had a 760 on Quant. and all I can say is for me its 'been there and done that' and have no intention to retake that (ever). But i'm confused here, if you are a mechanical engineer how are you graduating with a physics degree and working with lasers. Where do the two fields intersect? Good Luck with the applications!

Flounder, From your post I gather that you are really interested in this stuff. SVD's can be solved using either your method or QR-algorithm. QR is computationally more simple than Jacobi but the latter has a higher degree of accuracy. Seems like you are into sensor arrays, parallel architecture, etc. Yes I have heard of VHDL but am not well versed with it. Its great to see you trying for a publication but to be honest with you its really tough to get a publication in a journal. Its easier to get your paper published in a conference than a journal. I know prof.'s whose work have been rejected for journal publications but some how got those papers accepted in conferences. Good Luck with everything!

Attack:Vanquished ANS:D Hack:Carve ANS:E Metaphor:Literal ANS:B

I say its D. Sage is someone who pocesses wisdom so the opposite of that would be a 'fool'.

Hello flounder, Thanks for the wishes. Its been a while for me too. At the moment I am busy with my SOP, reco.'s and research so I have very little time for TM. However, every once in a while I do my best to post something which is my way of saying 'thank you' to this wonderful site. I will take a look at your reply. Also its good that you are scared of the quant. section cause this way you're not underestimating anything. But don't worry yourself too much with it. Also if your specialization is signal processing then you need to have a solid foundation in Fourier Transforms and Linear Algebra. Good Luck on the Test!

ccll11, From your questions I gather that you are not used to reading prior posts before you post your questions. Take a look at them and all your doubts will vanish. By the way, this is not jeopardy :D!

An Min, The statement of purpose is supposed to be at most 2 pages long. If you exceede this the reader will lose interest. So contrary to Psyoutlaw I would say that stay within the limits as the SOP is not an abstract or a publication where you include extremely technical detail. Its main purpose is to introduce your research objective and the accomplishments you have made or could make in the near future. It gives the reader an idea as to your research potential. You should try not to include too much technical nitty gritty as the reader may get lost. Keep in mind that not everyone on the graduate commitee is researching in GA or in a related area. To tell you the truth, everything you have written will make a good a good abstract for a paper. Have you published anything? If you have then refer to that in your SOP. Good Luck on the GA algorithms.

Let me take a shot and be the mediator here. I agree with Erin in the sense that Vinay has been extremely helpful to the rest of us TM's and hence has earned my respect and the respect of the rest of us. Even you admitted that the question was irrelevant and had nothing to do with this forum besides inciting a few people. I guess what Vinay meant by 'so watch out before you write such a thing especially with names mentioned ....' is that you should have left a question mark on the names of countries. I know karimo you meant no harm and that it was just an 'idle powow', but you know what they say 'idle mind is the devil's workshop'. Karimo anytime you feel like getting into an idle powow visit the analogies (my personal favorite), problem solving forum etc. and you could make someone's day :D! 'Leave the political discussions for the politicians, life is too short for you and me to be spending it on idle talk' said the jackal. Peace everyone!

My answer is incorrect. I misunderstood the question and took the hexagon inscribed in the circle!

For A, the answer in my opinion should be 0. This is because no matter how you arrange the seating, one women will end up sitting next to a man! Nice try manish2003! But there 6 people and 6 seats so the assumption that there is an empty seat does not arise. This assumption contradicts the question. I believe according to the ques. we have to seat 6 people in 6 seats and not leave one person standing by leaving an empty seat. For C, I agree with fortune. We could make assumptions and solve the problem but different assumptions will lead to totally different solutions. For instance, we can assume that no two people have the same last name, to get one solution. But what happens if two or more people share the same last name, do we stop here? If I had to choose an answer here i'd go with 1/(6!). Maybe bazooka76 can shed some light.

I see disagreement. Here are my answers: 1. D (X is the one that is powered and pulls Y) 2. D (X is an entertainment enacted to guess Y) 3. B (X is trained to replace Y in his absence)

Area of hexagon inscribed in circle = Area of 6 equilateral triangles = {1/2 x r x r x Sin60} x 6 triangles Area of circle = pi x r^2 ratio of the area of the circle to the area of the hexagon= (1st eq.)/( 2nd eq.) = {2 x pi}/{3 x sqrt(3)} != square root of 3 Maybe i'm not getting it!

crackit, the question states 'approximate probability' so its ok in this case.

An Min, too many steps involved here. Vol. of large cube = 10x10x10 = 1000 cubic cm Sice each cube has a vol. of 1 cubic cm which implies that there are 1000 cubes. No. of cubes that don't have a single painted surface = 8x8x8 =512 No. of cubes that have at least one painted surface = 1000 -512 =488 P(at least one painted surface)=488/1000=1/2

I agree with Vinay!