Recent content by Asteropaeus

This comment reminds me of when I was 17. Everyone makes a 1 second first impression of someone. That includes cool people you really want to hang out with. Some of us may be aware of our 'shallowness', but that doesn't help. People who make comments like this just do so mark themselves as...

I think name recognition can be very important. Especially among laypeople and people are HR departments. They aren't going to look at the publications of the specific research group or PI you worked for. They are going to respond to 'MIT' or 'Harvard' or 'Stanford', etc. Also doesn't say...

Considering I was depressed staying in my room at my parent's (toxic alcoholics) place, yes. It was the abyss, or back to school. It's just that now I learned I could have had a associate position, a wife, kids, a house, etc. I never knew I could. But I guess I couldn't, really. But I did have...

I see this was bumped, but that the OP probably isn't reading this. To answer the question the OP did ask, I do not study pure physics. I study biochemistry/life sciences with a biophysics specialization. All groups I worked in so far have been led by physics PI's employing multidisciplinary...

You can both use NMR or FTIR to get a fingerprint of a food product. Using reference food products with known compositions, you can determine the compositions of unknown samples. Because of the constraints on your food product, you can set up the algorithm that matches the rich fingerprint you...

Being an actual top gamer/athlete is actually 100x harder than being a physics, unless you are somehow endowed with incredible talent.

Do you have a European passport? Often makes a 10factor difference on how much tuition you pay.

The more fundamental your science degree, the more options you have to diversity into certain areas. Yes, certain degrees prepare you for jobs that don't exist. I can't imagine how vexing it must be to study a subject you love, work really hard to be really good at it, you learned how much fun...

Your degree is a science degree. Not an engineering degree. Chemical biology, biochemistry, biomoleculair science, those are scientific fields. Synthetic biology is an engineering field, or at least it aims to be. But you will find synthetic biology is an academic endeavour, usually with people...

Can we just ignore Vanadium? He always does this, and it never leads somewhere.

I don't believe someone that says 199 out of 200 CS graduates don't know how to program a loop with an if-statement. And it also makes me question everything else that person has to say. I don't care where they got their degree, US, Bangladesh, the Moon; if they have a CS degree, they know how...

I recommend Susskind video's, but not exactly sure in what order you should watch them. They are on youtube. I also feel I must say you might be disappointed by QM. You will learn that for a very basic system, we can do calculations. But for everything more complex than the most basic systems...

Well, if you are a biotechnologist, aren't you an engineer? I don't know how you, or others for that matter, use their definitions. But you may be an engineer in biotechnology processes/reactors. Or you may be an engineer in synthetic biology. Those are different things, granted. If you want to...

A PhD will involve teaching, academic development and the actual research. Academic development may mean attending conferences, taking courses, etc. Many PhD candidates will end up taking one or two advanced courses related to the research they are doing, usually 6 to 12 or a bit more ECTS in...

Depends on the lab. It is going to be a combination of having some core physics very relevant to biology and having a background that complements the other skills in the lab, and your specific project. Some biophysics labs will only have physicists. Others will have people with many different...