I'm planning on teaching myself C++. Does anybody know of any good books to learn from? I have a little bit of prior programming experience with java but not all that much.
Yeah that's kind of what I started thinking the more I think about it. I wouldn't really consider him to be a nice person but he's not evil. I don't think he would actively try to sabotage me from getting into grad school. I'm still not sure that he's going to write me a good letter of...
How much will one bad letter of recommendation for grad school hurt me if my other two are really good? I did an REU over the summer and really didn't get along well with my advisor and I'm a little bit worried about what he might write in my letter of recommendation. He did offer to write me...
My advisor did his postdoc there. I think I've made up my mind that I'm at least going to apply there. It's a very good school and Boulder seems like it's a cool place to live. So if I get accepted I'll just go out there and see for myself what I think of it.
My adviser was telling me that UC Boulder is a very good school and isn't as hard to get into as some other really good schools but that they're very tough on their graduate students there and make them work ridiculously hard. Does anybody know if this is true? Any UC Boulder grad students on...
I'm applying to grad school this year and I'm thinking I might be interested in exploring lattice gauge theory. Honestly, I don't know very much about the subject but it sounds very interesting to me. Does anybody know which schools have lattice gauge theory and which schools are really good...
I have about 10 schools that I'm interested in but I think that may be too many and maybe I should narrow it down to like 6 or 7. Is 10 too many or should I just go ahead and apply to all of them? Would applying to 10 schools take twice as much of my time as applying to 5 or would it just take...
I feel fairly confident that the professor I've worked for at my school will write me a good recommendation but I'm not so sure about my REU advisor. How bad will one recommendation that's not so great hurt me if the other two are really good?
I'm majoring in Physics and minoring in Math at a highly ranked liberal arts school (top 25). I have a 3.9 overall GPA and I'm not sure what my math and Physics GPA is but its higher than 3.9. I have all A's and one A- in math and Physics. I got an 800 on the quantitative section of the GRE...
So I'm thinking that for grad school I might like to get into some computational simulations and modeling. The reason for this is I'm not sure if I'll want to stay in Physics after grad school and being good with computers and modeling and such I think will give me a lot of options outside of...
Do you have to apply for them separately or are you automatically considered for them when you apply to a grad school? How do they decide who to give them to? Do they just give them to exceptionally good applicants?
I absolutely do love Physics it's just that I don't want to allow my life to become completely consumed by Physics like the lives of so many of the people I know who have been successful in Physics. I want to have a life outside of Physics and I'm not sure that you can do that and be successful...
I may be wrong about this but I swear I've heard twofish-quant say in another thread that he doesn't know of anybody with a Physics PhD that wanted to get a job on wall street and was unable to do it and that people with PhD's in Physics have a much better chance of getting a job on wall street...
I have a question. I'm going into my last year of my undergraduate Physics degree and for a long time my goal was to become a tenured professor at a research university but lately I've been realizing how incredibly stressful and difficult that would be and how little my chance of success is...