I'm not applying for any REU's this summer since I'm graduating, but I've learned that Rutgers is starting an REU program this year, and only put their application online this week, with a due date of February 22nd. Might be good to check out for those who thought they were too late to start...
Stony Brook has a great physics department, especially with the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and Brookhaven National Lab nearby. The most important thing is getting experience with research, which you should have plenty of opportunities for at Stony Brook.
There are a lot of companies who visit Rutgers looking for people to intern, especially for computer science and engineering fields (so undoubtedly for computer engineering as well). So attending relevant internship fairs and company events on campus (for instance, Google is having a panel do a...
I read the book and loved it. In fact, I think I'll reread it sometime soon. But the movie wasn't amazing. It was certainly groundbreaking for its time, but it is very dull at times. I haven't read any of the sequels though.
Sophomore Physics/Math Major:
Classical Mechanics II
Thermal Physics
Circuits Lab
Linear Algebra (proof based)
I'm not sure what else though, it depends what classes I'm able to get into in the first week of the semester. Possibly a class on the history of math, or maybe I'll stick with...
As long as you're interested in robotics, it can't hurt to try it. Getting involved in research in general is a good thing to do, regardless of the specific type of research, just so you know whether or not it is something you'll want to continue in the future. And if an opportunity involving...
Not sure if others have heard, but Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, passed away this week, as confirmed by the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES-yKOYaXq0
And now the line "Mandelbrot's in heaven, at...
iTunes is a bit of a resource hog as it is, and it can slow down your computer a lot, but if the keyboard is clearly giving you problems, it can't hurt to get a new keyboard as well.
If you have little or no income, you should be getting a good deal of financial aid...But it's still a going to be a lot of money that you have to pay, regardless.