Recent content by Asphodel

I've done that, and I've had cases where I ended up with a solution I felt was more elegant. Learning how to approach problems is really more important than being able to solve any single problem...which will inevitably involve quite a bit of what you describe.

This speaks more to the inadequacies of the IQ testing model than anything else. Although note that what people usually think it's for is nothing to do with what it was designed for...which it IS useful for.

Not at all. But if you're going to math grad school (or at least seriously considering it) and if you need a few electives that language classes would satisfy...it's definitely worth giving some thought to over "Theory of Modern Art" or "Homosexuality in Early English Literature" or something...

Every math grad program I've seen requires their students to acquire a "reading knowledge" (i.e. you can read a paper in that language with a dictionary in the other hand) of some plurality of those languages. Sometimes a few others make the list. If you're planning on graduate study in...

Business is for making money. Science/Engineering is because you're too obsessed with finding stuff out and tinkering with things to be happy in a "normal job" and figured out that you can actually get suckers to pay you to do the things you want to do anyway...*cough*...uhh, something like...

There aren't many jobs in Astronomy. Assuming your scientific background is solid (i.e. you've been taking all those physics courses they recommend you take to the point that you're almost a double major) then you have roughly the same prospects as someone who majored in Physics but isn't...

You should see my past schedules, then. Starting with the classes that would tell students straight out that you needed a minimum of 20 hours a week out of class to think about passing. :rolleyes: Like many other things in life, it is what you make of it.

He's right in that you have every bit of classroom experience in physics anyone is ever going to, and the degree to prove you can do research. What you don't have is experience doing physics research, which will probably make it harder to get a post-doc than it would be if you were just a...

Beats me. I don't particularly agree with many aspects of the current university system, this being one of them. It gives students a "knowledge buffet" instead of actually helping them master things, and assumes that if they need to know it better they'll get it on the job or in grad school. The...

Mine is quarter based. 3cr, 3cr, and 4cr.

Well, here the same classes he's listed would be 10 hours. And I've seen institutions where "20+ credits" is really comparable to the normal full-time load. It varies.

On the surface, I would think so. But I'm sure you had other factors that made you decide to go there?

Probably true.

Bioengineering programs are usually small and hard to get accepted to.

Among other things, yes. It's complicated since there's no one thing that's "for" you...there are many things most people can do if they want to do it badly enough to put in enough effort.