Recent content by cosmojo

Personally I love Carroll and ostlie, if you want a general astro book use The Cosmic Perspective, not sure who it is by but we use it for our astro 101 class and it covers basically everything in science/physics terms but still closer to basic but more in depth than popular science articles.

Yea, some days will be less some days will be more, I think most of my eng. friends spend more time in class then that but less time doing homework. Heres the thing, I know some people who are done with homework by 10 every night and can still get decent grades but the thing is they don't truly...

I find it hard to believe that grad schools would be ignorant to the fact that people who poses good leadership skills tend to be highly motivated individuals- doesn't that make them more qualified? Obviously I have not had the experience I do find it odd though that it plays no importance, if...

Actually I'm graduating in 4 years along with everyone else, along with a math minor. I just work my butt off. Actually here is the deal I use to live in Japan and realistically being multi-lingual especially in this type of global economy and research is always a good thing. I have requirements...

K I love this. This is how I feel it should be, its just the idea I get from other people on here is that its all about publications and GPA. I personally have a pretty good GPA but amazing leadership experiences (I'm on a counsel that advises congress on health legislation, along with 2 club...

Well after reading tons of posts and talking to my friends who are headed off to grad school here is what everyone says: PGRE is really important, GPA is really important, publications really important, leadership roles really important, multiple years of research experience really important...

Electromagnetism Quantum Mechanics 1 Religions of China and Japan Japanese Lang-3rd semester History of Eastern Asia -I'm a double major (astrophysics and east asian studies) last semester was basically all physics so I had to throw a few more asian studies courses in :)

By Activities I meant I sit on national councils that advice congressmen on health legislation, I feel like that counts for something. I mean obviously I could be wrong, and yes I do have physics related stuff as well. No publications as of yet.

I've started to look at graduate schools and I am really interested in doing solar physics, although I am very interested in more general astrophysics as well. Of course we all want to go to a great school but I want to be realistic about where I can get in ect. Location is a big deal to me as...