Recent content by eudaimonia

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    Admissions Need advice for Low GPA / Good Research / HEPth PhD application

    And additionally, there're some advices on the forum that are dangerously outdated. And quite misleading imho. Been through the admission system myself as someone who had low undergrad GPA, and just now participated in admission committee, all the students that did their undergrad during...
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    Admissions Need advice for Low GPA / Good Research / HEPth PhD application

    As others have said, get a plan B. A good option for that is to apply for UK/EU schools. They don't care about GRE whatsoever. Go for the UK route if your family is well-off and can spare you 50k bucks, if you click the option "i'm willing to self-fund", it's not hard to gain admission into...
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    Programs Postdoc in Particle Physics with a PhD in Nanoscience Nanotechnology

    As people already pointed out, the OP is not that passionate about pursuing such goals. I feel like (and from reading OP's other posts on similar topics), that OP is missing out some information about their motivation. A lot of things doesn't make sense. Is OP's goal to immigrate to the US...
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    Admissions Applying for PhD despite very weak undergraduate GPA

    I think you guys have been overly harsh on the OP. I too had a 2.7 undergrad GPA (although my school is notorious for grade deflation but still, I was not performing as well as I should've in the exams) When I spoke to my undergrad supervisor about doing research in hep-th (the most...
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    Other Should I give up string theory due to its job prospects?

    I'm currently a fresh grad student in theoretical physics, and I'm still deciding to choose which research group to join. My current understanding (maybe I'm wrong) is the PhD theme pretty much determines the topic for future post-doc research so I kinda need to choose very carefully. I'm...
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    Programs Masters then PhD in theoretical physics: Cambridge vs EU?

    Thank you for the replies! That's what I thought as well, since I have to change school anyway, I'd rather change it at BA -> MSc instead of at MSc -> PhD, since the former requires mostly grade, the latter is more complicated I suppose. Wow, thank you for the insight. Yes, I absolutely...
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    Programs Masters then PhD in theoretical physics: Cambridge vs EU?

    Hello, this is my first post. So sorry for the long read in advance. I will graduate from Part II mathematical tripos this year, and I'm currently having a hard time deciding where to go for my Master: For now, I'm definite that I want to do theoretical physics PhD (gravity, cosmology, or...