What is Academic: Definition and 282 Discussions

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

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    Academic Planning Issues (Help)

    I have an academic planning issue. Since I never had any interest in mathematics or mathematical sciences in high school, I never took a course past Algebra/Trigonometry, and didn’t pay attention to any of my physics or chemistry courses. After I graduated high school, and started to read a lot...
  2. I

    To be an academic or an industry brainiac? :P

    This semester I've pulled out a lot of hair over my 'microprocessor design' course and was thinking. These R&D industry leaders must be damn smart - but what made them choose to work in industry rather than being an academic and pursuing research in that sense? I have many professors that...
  3. Ivan Seeking

    Introducing Hawking & Susskind: An Academic Tale

    Who introduced Hawking to Susskind. What was his original profession, and what was his profession when he introduced the two scientists.
  4. Q

    Seeking Advice on Preventing Academic Plagiarism in PhD Research

    I’ve just this weekend stumbled onto a major issue in my PhD. Annoyingly enough, only 2 months out from my projected submission date. I’m after advice from anybody on the forums who might be a senior academic/researcher who’s maybe come across something similar in the past. The background...
  5. P

    What drives you towards academic success?

    my friend asked me an interesting question today: "you can never be the best at anything, so why keep trying?" well, this is true. None of us can truly be the best at math, science, music, petry, whatever. There will always be someone somewhere better than us, and there will be someone...
  6. C

    Unusual Change in Academic Plans

    Hi all, I am about to graduate this weekend with a BS in Physics. I applied to, got accepted to, and am going to attend the University of Southern California this fall. Specifically, I am pursuing an MS in Astronautical Engineering through the Viterbi School of Engineering. Since I was accepted...
  7. M

    Programs Age and Academic Careers: Impact of Age on PhD Graduates

    I'm currently finishing my phd in astrophysics and ill be 28.5 yrs old when i do so. I'm now looking for a post-doc job and it seems to be difficult. I've attended top undergraduate and graduate schools but seem to have no offers or call-backs on my applications.I'm being told that younger phd...
  8. N

    Physics Do you have to be a genius to have an academic career in physics?

    As some of you might have read in my other threads I am thinking about studying physics at the university, but I have not made up my mind yet. One of the things that worries me is that the math and the general abstractness of the subject will be too hard for me to grasp. Math was definitely my...
  9. E

    Engineering Academic Career decision: Physics or Engineering

    Hey This will be my first post on this forum, but I have been reading posts for quite a while. I find it really insightful. Now, I could use some of the people here's help. I need to decide whether I should do Electrical Engineering or Physics. I have been offered early admission to the...
  10. B

    Considering a Return to Academic Physics from Industry

    Hi folks, I'm wondering whether to return to academic physics from industry. :smile: I finished my physics degree with a minor in astrophysics over here in the UK when I was 19 years old. At the time, I applied for a few PhD studentships but didn't get offered one. Instead I was offered...
  11. K

    Academic Misconduct: Uncovering the Reality at My College

    This has been on my mind most of this semester due to an incident that I was involved in the first week of school. Long story short, I helped a fellow student by using my work as an example, they handed it in as their own, I lost points on the lab because of it. I've attended 3 different...
  12. Cyrus

    Facing Academic Dishonesty Charges: Navigating the Honor Board

    :mad: We had a lab report that was due last week and was rather lengthy. So I worked through the problems together with my friend. We had to turn in individual lab reports. Apparently the TA thought they were too "simliar" and showed it to the professor. Now I got a letter in the mail from the...
  13. R

    Asian Students: Achieving Academic Excellence

    Why are there so many good students of asian descent nowadays? Just take a look at this competition. http://www.siemens-foundation.org/2005Berkeley.htm#Michael
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    Academic & Career Guidance guidelines

    I propose that the stickied thread How to use this subforum: A disclaimer in the Academic & Career Guidance forum be added to the list of "required reading" guidelines, i.e. members must read and agree to those guidelines before they can post there.
  15. K

    My Semester: A Look Into My Academic Year

    Greetings, For a while I've been doing this little thing where everyone goes on and describes their semester for all to see. I'm a little late this time for those in the US, but the academic year over here only starts next week. I'll go first : I'm entering my last year of my master...
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    Academic & Career Guidance disclaimer

    This was brought up somewhere a while ago and I think we should revisit it and enact it: make a sticky in Academic & Career Guidance, a disclaimer to the effect that students should not take this forum as a primary source of guidance but should consult advisors at their school, should take...
  17. S

    Are Books on Academic Career Development Essential for Success in Science?

    Did anyone read any good books with advice on developing your academic career starting from grd school? Or everyone is just spontaneous or listening to what your prof says. I find that for people, who are not absolute geniuses it's necessary to know this kind of stuff to succeed in making a...
  18. N

    Schools Post the Funnest/Hardest Academic Semester you had in university

    Mine would be 3rd year 1-2 term and 4th year term 1 3.1 Funnest/Hardest-(woke up at 9am and slept at like 3am) Computer Graphics Neuropsych I Astrophysics: Stellar Quantum I Probability Theory Number Theory 3.2 Easiest Theory of Computation Combinatorics Automata and Langauge...
  19. Gokul43201

    New Sticky in Academic & Career Guidance

    I've started a new sticky in A & CG. Give it a look : https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=76031
  20. Gokul43201

    Academic and Research Programs in Science, Math and Engineering

    High Energy and Particle Physics programs around the world (courtesy Cern) http://graybook.cern.ch/institutes/ High Energy and Particle Physics programs in the US http://graybook.cern.ch/institutes/countries/US.html (thanks to Astronuc for the above two links) National Labs in the...
  21. O

    Academic route to artificial intelligence?

    Hi, i need some advice on my academic path. im very interested in artificial intelligence and possibly hope to create a AI being that is truly able to think on its own. now which university course should i enrol? how abt masters? phd? and maybe which university is best for my interest...
  22. E

    Navigating Transferring to University with Academic Challenges

    Hi everyone, I am studying at the 2 year community college and look forward to transfering to 4-year-University after the next semester. But, I have one problem. I have 3Ws ( withdraw ) in my acedamic record. I think it will be a barrier when I apply to University. What do you...
  23. Greg Bernhardt

    Academic Balance: A Reflection

    I was just walking home from class and was thinking about the imbalance of what is taught in schools and colleges. I'll be graduating in May and I realized how focused the United States and other countries (I think) are towards math and science. However, when I look back at my college and high...
  24. S

    My academic careerwish me luck guys.

    yup yup. So it's me again, deciding what to do w/ my life...from the beginning, this was what I wanted. I've always wanted to continue study after graduation and get a M.S; reason because I want to get an advanced degree, and also, I really do absolutley love going to school and being in...
  25. J

    What does academic education cost?

    Inspired by the talk about tuition fees in the "european degree terminology"-thread, perhaps the financial side of academic education could use an own thread? So, despite our daily proportion of intellectual food, I suppose phycists must eat: what does it cost to get an academic education in...
  26. C

    My Favorite Academic Related Forums on the Internet

    Is it okey if I post these, just to share good resources to get good info.? I was going to post 10 forums that relate to science, politics, and philosophy. If a moderator can respond please, I will go ahead and post the forums, thanks.
  27. P

    Academic advice for a prospective physics student.

    Hello everyone, I am a student living in Canada and I am in grade 12. We have finsihed applying for universities. Now the hard part is to decide which one to go to. (I'm thinking University of Toronto, Waterloo, Queens or Guelph). The main question I had is that I plan on going to grad school...
  28. Math Is Hard

    Schools Academic Communities in High School

    Next year at my little sister's high school a new program is being implemented called Academic Communities. This was funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From what I understand, the students will be divided into five groups specializing in a different area of study...
  29. H

    Academic and Career Guidance Forum

    I'm now mentor for the "Academic and Career Guidance" forum? I'm not complaining- I think it's a worthwhile forum but I would have like to have had some notice beforehand!
  30. O

    Your participation requested for an academic survey

    Dear forum users, We are doing an academic research project on online service quality. We would be grateful if you could spare 3-5 minutes and complete our online questionnaire. The link for the questionnaire is provided below. http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/osq/ Thank you for your help and...
  31. R

    Musings of a different academic path

    After browsing through a like minded thread in this forum, I too am seriously pondering going back to school to embark on a different career path. I have an Associate degree in Computer Information Technology (translation: garbage) which at the time had an emphasis on C+ (this was prior to the...
  32. J

    Best Schools for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics?

    Hello everyone, I'm one semester away from transferring out of my current two-year school, and I'm looking for input on what Universities might be worthwhile to consider. I'll tell you a little about myself, and then I'd like to hear your opinions. Upon completion of this program, I will...
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