Eventually they ' ll just blow away right out of your hands . <| sep |> Or a box lunch from the flight kitchen consisting of a hardboiled egg , a Mystery Meat sammich , and an orange . <| sep |> Faut sortir de chez toi un peu . La France n ' est pas largement un pays anticlerical . <| sep |> Primeknit I think . They ' re the black and white pandas . <| sep |> So , I will be finishing up my undergraduate studies this coming spring quarter . I have basically two main questions regarding grad school . While my undergraduate GPA isn ' t bad per se I feel like it doesn ' t quite stand up . I ' m currently sitting at a 3 . 41 cumulative , and ~ 3 . 6 major thanks to 2 bad quarters which I won ' t go into detail about but I have made limited reparations by retaking what classes I could . Additionally , my GRE scores aren ' t great I ' m not a good test taker , especially when it is so rigidly timed like the GRE . I ' ve taken it twice , and I managed to do worse the second time around , though this was due to lack of preparation on my part 154 Q 160 V for the first time , 151 Q 158 V on the second try . Considering my academic profile isn ' t so great , I ' m applying at schools that are reasonably within reach , two PhD programs at stateregional universities , the master ' s program at my home institution , and the master ' s program at the university where I did my REU . With that said though , I still feel like I have a very slim chance at getting in anywhere sans my home institution . Based on just those stats , what do you folks figure my chances are ? I mean I have some research experience , good LORs , lot ' s of industry experience , and connections at 3 of the 4 schools I ' m applying at , but I feel my GPA and GRE are going to hamper me significantly . Second thing is just more general studiesprep for graduate school , but what math classes would be good for someone to take if they are interested in doing research in logictheoryalgorithms ? I ' m taking a formal logic course right now , and I ' ve taken all the undergraduate algorithms courses I can at my university a basic introductory algorithms course , and a probabilisticrandomized algorithms course which has a reputation of being the hardest CS class at the university and I managed a 3 . 7 in that class as well as all the standard math required of a CS major foundations , a full year of calculus , discrete , probability and stats , and linear algebra . There are three courses I could take next quarter , namely group theory , number theory and numerical linear algebra which leads into numerical analysis in the spring . I feel like the group theory and number theory classes would give me a strong proof background necessary for theoretical work , but I feel like the numerical linear algebra class will further expand my algorithm designimplementation capabilities , so I ' m not sure which would be best . Thanks .