I don't know too much about jobs really in Champaign/Urbana, but State Farm HQ is in Bloomington. Caterpillar HQ is in Peoria and they have tons of factories and other stuff around Central Illinois. ADM is in Decatur. I'm sure there is a lot more, but I haven't really needed to look for a job in...
I live near UIUC. It is a great school. I think their condensed matter program is #1. Everything else is pretty good too. I would love to attend grad school at UIUC.
EDIT: Urbana/Champaign is a small suburban type area 2-3 hours from Chicago, St. Louis, and Indianapolis. I've hung out...
Does anyone think I will have a chance at any of the schools in the link or the ones I listed? I hope I do, but I guess there are plenty of other schools to try. I wish I would have been on the ball during the first degree.
Yeah, my letter writers will probably say that I am an excellent student and at least a good researcher (how good can you be at the undergrad level?). I'm pretty sure I received the highest grades out of everybody in the classes they taught. Two of them I have done research with and I'm pretty...
Here is my deal. I went to college once and graduated with a BS in chemistry. I worked for a couple of years and decided to finish a physics BS. I want to go to grad school for physics. I would like to study AMO physics. Bose-Einstein Condensates in particular. However, I am open to many areas...