[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
fuck 9? lol[/quote]
Trust me. It’s nothing to some of them, man.
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You almost lost me for a second. You like diversity in your sugar walls I see.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I like you lol. The point you brought up about your roommate re-enforces my previous statement about strengths and weaknesses meaning more than the raw average. I know people who, while are very smart, certainly aren’t 190 (at least as far as I know) and literally ace everything with hardly any studying. I can ace a physics exam with no studying, but that’s because the concepts are already ingrained and physics allows more flexibility in its mechanics. Now of course if you friend failed due to attendance like I have done before (misjudged the professor and his method) that’s a different story entirely and still brings us to the acknowledgement of weaknesses. I wouldn’t share my IQ unless asked especially since I think my mind is more developed than the score suggests since I’m a poor test taker.[/quote]
I was the same way in undergrad, when you get to grad school it is a whole new ball game, especially if you are doing multiple graduate degrees like I did. If you are planning on grad school, I would start developing excellent study habits now because it will come back to bite you in the ass later if you don’t. Also, take as many extra advanced math classes as you can (differential geometry, advanced linear algebra & differential equations, and advanced calculus are ones you will have to take eventually anyway so you may as well get them out of the way in undergrad where the physics is less difficult. When you start the theoretical stuff in your third year of grad school it gets rough.
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I like you lol. The point you brought up about your roommate re-enforces my previous statement about strengths and weaknesses meaning more than the raw average. I know people who, while are very smart, certainly aren’t 190 (at least as far as I know) and literally ace everything with hardly any studying. I can ace a physics exam with no studying, but that’s because the concepts are already ingrained and physics allows more flexibility in its mechanics. Now of course if you friend failed due to attendance like I have done before (misjudged the professor and his method) that’s a different story entirely and still brings us to the acknowledgement of weaknesses. I wouldn’t share my IQ unless asked especially since I think my mind is more developed than the score suggests since I’m a poor test taker.[/quote]
I was the same way in undergrad, when you get to grad school it is a whole new ball game, especially if you are doing multiple graduate degrees like I did. If you are planning on grad school, I would start developing excellent study habits now because it will come back to bite you in the ass later if you don’t. Also, take as many extra advanced math classes as you can (differential geometry, advanced linear algebra & differential equations, and advanced calculus are ones you will have to take eventually anyway so you may as well get them out of the way in undergrad where the physics is less difficult. When you start the theoretical stuff in your third year of grad school it gets rough.[/quote]
Actually right now I plan on crossing over to aerospace engineering. I still have every intention of a PhD in astro and maybe nuclear though. Might minor in physics depending on the rigor. I’m finding myself to be a much better theorist than experimentalist if only by nature. Already have some theoretical constructs in the works. I’ll see where things go from here.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I like you lol. The point you brought up about your roommate re-enforces my previous statement about strengths and weaknesses meaning more than the raw average. I know people who, while are very smart, certainly aren’t 190 (at least as far as I know) and literally ace everything with hardly any studying. I can ace a physics exam with no studying, but that’s because the concepts are already ingrained and physics allows more flexibility in its mechanics. Now of course if you friend failed due to attendance like I have done before (misjudged the professor and his method) that’s a different story entirely and still brings us to the acknowledgement of weaknesses. I wouldn’t share my IQ unless asked especially since I think my mind is more developed than the score suggests since I’m a poor test taker.[/quote]
I was the same way in undergrad, when you get to grad school it is a whole new ball game, especially if you are doing multiple graduate degrees like I did. If you are planning on grad school, I would start developing excellent study habits now because it will come back to bite you in the ass later if you don’t. Also, take as many extra advanced math classes as you can (differential geometry, advanced linear algebra & differential equations, and advanced calculus are ones you will have to take eventually anyway so you may as well get them out of the way in undergrad where the physics is less difficult. When you start the theoretical stuff in your third year of grad school it gets rough.[/quote]
Actually right now I plan on crossing over to aerospace engineering. I still have every intention of a PhD in astro and maybe nuclear though. Might minor in physics depending on the rigor. I’m finding myself to be a much better theorist than experimentalist if only by nature. Already have some theoretical constructs in the works. I’ll see where things go from here.[/quote]
Good luck with that, man. A word of caution, though: your first year or two of grad school are going to be really rough if you go that route. Not only will you have to take the standard math classes required for physics grad students, but you will also have to take the math classes required for physics undergrads that engineers do not have to take (complex variables, advanced vector analysis, among others), you will also have to take quite a few advanced undergrad physics classes like intro to quantum mechanics (the senior level one, not sophomore), intermediate E&M, and classical mechanics (the one requiring diff eq and vector analysis) and intro to solid state physics, as well as light and optics, and computational methods. Basically you will have to finish a physics undergrad degree minus a couple of classes like intro to modern physics. Take as many of those as you can in undergrad, which will be hard as an engineering major, because getting caught up later will be even more difficult. Very few grad students who enter a masters or PhD program lacking those math and undergrad physics skills finish their degree. In the nearly 20 years since I entered grad school and later became a professor I have seen 2 make it through and many, many more transfer to an easier program or a trade based graduate school.
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
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Did you go straight for a phd or did you work any after your masters first?
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
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Did you go straight for a phd or did you work any after your masters first?[/quote]
For physics I went straight for a PhD, but I worked at a lab for most of the 4 years after my master’s it took me to finish my PhD so that I would finish with quite a bit of experience. I also got a master’s in mathematics at the same time, but it took me three years to finish that one instead of the usual two since I was working on two very demanding graduate programs. I had to get permission from my graduate committee to do all of that since it is quite a workload.
I hate how I had that encounter with that libeling sociopath and that my health broke down in the middle of my masters. It irks the hell out me knowing that it kept me from going the thesis route and brought my gpa down. I really would like to do a phd, but I’d like to get a professional job first and save some money for it so I don’t have to pull any more loans out. If I have to pull more loans out for it, the phd may very well not be worth it… I’d ask what you think, but I suspect that would be hard for you know without knowing a lot about the field I’m going into.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I hate how I had that encounter with that libeling sociopath and that my health broke down in the middle of my masters. It irks the hell out me knowing that it kept me from going the thesis route and brought my gpa down. I really would like to do a phd, but I’d like to get a professional job first and save some money for it so I don’t have to pull any more loans out. If I have to pull more loans out for it, the phd may very well not be worth it… I’d ask what you think, but I suspect that would be hard for you know without knowing a lot about the field I’m going into.[/quote]
Yeah, I would need to know more about the actual field to tell you much, but one thing that I do know is that if you actually have to pay for a PhD, it is usually not worth it. Most PhDs that are worth getting, the school will waive tuition in exchange for work as a TA or RA. If you are going to pay for graduate school, the trade based ones are the way to go (i.e. medical, dental, law or business school). You at least have a reasonable expectation of being able to pay back your student loans, whereas someone who pays and takes out loans for a PhD in philosophy is not likely to make much more then someone with a BS in liberal arts.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
LOL
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I like you lol. The point you brought up about your roommate re-enforces my previous statement about strengths and weaknesses meaning more than the raw average. I know people who, while are very smart, certainly aren’t 190 (at least as far as I know) and literally ace everything with hardly any studying. I can ace a physics exam with no studying, but that’s because the concepts are already ingrained and physics allows more flexibility in its mechanics. Now of course if you friend failed due to attendance like I have done before (misjudged the professor and his method) that’s a different story entirely and still brings us to the acknowledgement of weaknesses. I wouldn’t share my IQ unless asked especially since I think my mind is more developed than the score suggests since I’m a poor test taker.[/quote]
I was the same way in undergrad, when you get to grad school it is a whole new ball game, especially if you are doing multiple graduate degrees like I did. If you are planning on grad school, I would start developing excellent study habits now because it will come back to bite you in the ass later if you don’t. Also, take as many extra advanced math classes as you can (differential geometry, advanced linear algebra & differential equations, and advanced calculus are ones you will have to take eventually anyway so you may as well get them out of the way in undergrad where the physics is less difficult. When you start the theoretical stuff in your third year of grad school it gets rough.[/quote]
Actually right now I plan on crossing over to aerospace engineering. I still have every intention of a PhD in astro and maybe nuclear though. Might minor in physics depending on the rigor. I’m finding myself to be a much better theorist than experimentalist if only by nature. Already have some theoretical constructs in the works. I’ll see where things go from here.[/quote]
Good luck with that, man. A word of caution, though: your first year or two of grad school are going to be really rough if you go that route. Not only will you have to take the standard math classes required for physics grad students, but you will also have to take the math classes required for physics undergrads that engineers do not have to take (complex variables, advanced vector analysis, among others), you will also have to take quite a few advanced undergrad physics classes like intro to quantum mechanics (the senior level one, not sophomore), intermediate E&M, and classical mechanics (the one requiring diff eq and vector analysis) and intro to solid state physics, as well as light and optics, and computational methods. Basically you will have to finish a physics undergrad degree minus a couple of classes like intro to modern physics. Take as many of those as you can in undergrad, which will be hard as an engineering major, because getting caught up later will be even more difficult. Very few grad students who enter a masters or PhD program lacking those math and undergrad physics skills finish their degree. In the nearly 20 years since I entered grad school and later became a professor I have seen 2 make it through and many, many more transfer to an easier program or a trade based graduate school.
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duly noted
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
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lololololol sounds like me and my friends except there is a lot of us and there are girls and we are funny …
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I hate how I had that encounter with that libeling sociopath and that my health broke down in the middle of my masters. It irks the hell out me knowing that it kept me from going the thesis route and brought my gpa down. I really would like to do a phd, but I’d like to get a professional job first and save some money for it so I don’t have to pull any more loans out. If I have to pull more loans out for it, the phd may very well not be worth it… I’d ask what you think, but I suspect that would be hard for you know without knowing a lot about the field I’m going into.[/quote]
I made a similar mistake with a woman my spring semester. FUCKED ME UP!!!
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
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lololololol sounds like me and my friends except there is a lot of us and there are girls and we are funny …[/quote]
Damn, wish I’d have known you back in my college days. With my group we just did homework problems and geeked out about math and physics and wondered why we didn’t have girlfriends. I figured that one out a year or two after starting grad school and changed it.
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
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lololololol sounds like me and my friends except there is a lot of us and there are girls and we are funny …[/quote]
Damn, wish I’d have known you back in my college days. With my group we just did homework problems and geeked out about math and physics and wondered why we didn’t have girlfriends. I figured that one out a year or two after starting grad school and changed it.
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I’d have gotten you jack3d/10
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I hate how I had that encounter with that libeling sociopath and that my health broke down in the middle of my masters. It irks the hell out me knowing that it kept me from going the thesis route and brought my gpa down. I really would like to do a phd, but I’d like to get a professional job first and save some money for it so I don’t have to pull any more loans out. If I have to pull more loans out for it, the phd may very well not be worth it… I’d ask what you think, but I suspect that would be hard for you know without knowing a lot about the field I’m going into.[/quote]
I made a similar mistake with a woman my spring semester. FUCKED ME UP!!![/quote]
On the bright side, the monster I encountered was evicted in the middle of a semester and didn’t have a place to stay! It was her senior year too lol.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
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lololololol sounds like me and my friends except there is a lot of us and there are girls and we are funny …[/quote]
Damn, wish I’d have known you back in my college days. With my group we just did homework problems and geeked out about math and physics and wondered why we didn’t have girlfriends. I figured that one out a year or two after starting grad school and changed it.
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I’d have gotten you jack3d/10[/quote]
If your pics in your hub are anything to go by, I don’t doubt that at all!
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
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lololololol sounds like me and my friends except there is a lot of us and there are girls and we are funny …[/quote]
Damn, wish I’d have known you back in my college days. With my group we just did homework problems and geeked out about math and physics and wondered why we didn’t have girlfriends. I figured that one out a year or two after starting grad school and changed it.
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What would that be out of curiosity’s sake?
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
My best advice for grad school is to avoid sociopaths and dangerously negligent apartment managers. It’ll help with your gpa, sanity, and overall health.[/quote]
Yeah, it is best to just get together with 3 or 4 other grad students that you know and can trust and just rent a decent house. That is what I did in grad school. It was like the big bang theory with no Penny and we were not funny.
[/quote]
lololololol sounds like me and my friends except there is a lot of us and there are girls and we are funny …[/quote]
Damn, wish I’d have known you back in my college days. With my group we just did homework problems and geeked out about math and physics and wondered why we didn’t have girlfriends. I figured that one out a year or two after starting grad school and changed it.
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What would that be out of curiosity’s sake?[/quote]
You mean the girlfriend thing? For me it was a combination of general shyness and age. I started grad school at 17, and undergrad at 14, so I missed out on the years that most people spend developing skills related to dating and picking up women, so by the time I could date women my age I had no idea how to talk to them and was too afraid anyway. It took a couple of years of practice and a couple of extremely psychotic women to get over that.